The Spanish tennis player opens in the Masters Series of Montecar it his season of beaten earth, on which she takes invicto 62 parties, two years
Rafa Nadal makes history from today. The Spanish tennis player opens to his season of earth in the Masters Series of Montecar it. For who has gained the nickname of the King of the Clay, the match has rank of unique occasion. And it is that it takes invicto 62 duels in that surface, two years. That turns its parties landmarks: if it wins, will increase the best gust of wind of always. If it loses, the round, the rival and the competition will be in the hemerotecas like end of a time record. And today it has an acid test: Juan Ignacio Chela, 22º of the world, hand lasts and resabio Argentine. Soon, the pressure, comecome to defend 2,300 points, the victories gained in 2006 in the own Montecar it, Barcelona and Rome. And a count down of 40 days that it erases of the calendar with anxiety: Roland Garros, the great dyeing of red, the only appointment of the Grand Slam on brick dust and that has crowned him last years both, takes the 27 of May.
Andrés winning Gimeno in Paris in 1972 He is going it to have very crude
Montecar it he is going to be a touchstone. He must defend very many points, all the matches. That eats the Coco to you. In addition, its physical form, its ankles worries to me, because it is going to have very tight parties. In earth they are many hours playing, two like minimum, perhaps three, and that tires. It is not going it to have easy. Its record has an extraordinary value. Not to lose in two years! One develops
What can hope of their adversaries? It is in the front sight
Other already they know to play to him. The 30 best ones travel with trainer and look for where to do damage to him. If it had pupilo, it would say atácale the second service to him. Métele much pressure there. It brings it to the network because you will have more possibilities. From the bottom there is nobody can with him.
The preoccupation of Nadal has marked its calendar. The manacorense, that overcame Thursday to Carlos Moyà in an exhibition in Palm, gained one week extra of training when resigning to the Glass Davis. The Earth is less aggressive for its body and it adapts to his game of defense and counterstroke better. For that reason, the mentideros slide, he and his they consider to return to the origins. It is 20 years old. This course and the previous one has dedicated them to be a player total, able to win in all the surfaces. For 2008, perhaps for 2009, a possibility, a thought, the result of a punished body: to spend the winter over the Earth of Brazil or Argentina, where its ascent began. By then one will know if Nadal has won its last battle: next to the Swiss Roger Federer,
number one, has been against to the changes of calendar proposed by the ATP for 2009, that they include to reduce from nine to eight masters - Montecar it and Hamburg, both on earth, would lose that category to create another one in Shanghai, where the Match of Teachers will let gamble, and to turn the one of Madrid a compound on earth before Roland Garros.
Nadal: An unjust project
Federer: It seems that they create to know more than we
Guillermo Vilas says to the Argentinean The record of 62 victories of Nadal is not worth so much as mine of 53, in 1977.
He has added them in two years. I, in one
He played matches easy to obtain the mark
But, as he is impressive - he defeated to Federer in three end! -, it only can be compared with the geniuses. With Bjorn Borg, for example. The Swedish accumulated 95 triumphs and three defeats on earth. And 11 great ones. Borg is in the first chapter of all books of tennis. Nadal decides from today in what page will appear its name.
Results first round:D. Ferrer-G. Simon (Fra.): 6-3 and 6-1. R. Gasquet (Fra.) - F. Verdasco: 7-5, 6-7 and 7-6. D. Hrbaty (Eslovaq.) - A. Portholes: 7-6 and 7-5. T. Berdych (R. Che) - N.I reddle: 5-0 and abandonment. Second round: R. Federer (Sui.) - A. Seppi (ita.): 7-6 and 7-6.