The Mallorcan tennis starts training on Wednesday. It will do in Palma de Mallorca to prepare for the new season. Its aim is to snatch the No. 1 Roger Federer.
On Sunday, Rafael Nadal held in Barcelona, with David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Feliciano Lopez and captain, Albert Costa, the fourth-Spain Davis Cup, second row, after winning by 5-0 to the Czech Republic Stepanek and Berdych.
On Monday in Madrid, the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, said:" Rafa, we love you. " On Tuesday he returned to Palma de Mallorca, and now beginning to train on their land in preparation for the 2010 season.
The number 2 tennis or want or needed vacation. He confessed to 20 minutes in the recent Masters Tournament in London: "I'm tired because I had several injuries in the second half of the year and I missed quite a few tournaments."
To protect your knee tendinitis to harass and strengthen those abs that gave problems in the U.S. Open, Nadal has only one formula: "Work and work."
The second racket of the world says: "The 2009 season has been good because I won my first Grand Slam on hard courts (open from Australia), three Masters (Indian Wells, Monte Carlo and Rome) and Davis. Perhaps, my only mistake was to play in Madrid when he was very bad knees. "
Still, says: "I will not change anything in my calendar." In 2009, played 19 tournaments and 76 matches. According to these words, start playing the first week of January in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi (UAE), and from January 18 start defending his Open title in Australia.
The same weight
On the foreign press rumors regarding her weight loss as the cause of his drop in performance this year, Rafa said ironically: "It will be another who has lost weight because I carry between 84 and 85 kilos the last five years."
The problem of service
The biggest handicap that is Rafa Nadal and one of the aspects that have to work this spring is his serve, particularly to meet the fast track tournaments. More than sensations are the statistics that talk.
The Spaniard is ranked number 53 in the ranking of aces (direct services), 2009, with 219 in 76 games, far from the 809 Karlovic, first in this classification, or 551 of Nico Almagro, Spanish 12th and first. However, the leader of second serve points won with a 57%.