2009

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, world number two, will receive next Thursday (17.00 pm in the Auditorium of the Fundación Mapfre) Universal 2009 Spanish prize, awarded for his successful sports career and excellent civic behavior

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, world number two, will receive next Thursday (17.00 pm in the Auditorium of the Mapfre Foundation) Award 'Spanish Universal 2009, awarded for lifetime achievement and excellent sports civic behavior.

In the conference participate Rafa Nadal, Ignacio Buqueras y Bach, president of the Fundación Independiente, and Juan José Almagro, Director General for Communication and Social Responsibility MAPFRE.

After the press conference can be followed online through www.fundacionindependiente.com-conference or symposium www.mapfre.com Rafa Nadal. Talent and values: the educational challenge, which will explain the keys to its success, will commence at 18.00 hours, and with the participation Nadal, Carlos Costa and Santiago Alvarez de Mon, professor at IESE.

The Spanish tennis player, number three, he debuted in the U.S. Open to Frenchman Richard Gasquet. His trainer and uncle Toni Nadal reassuring about the state of the player: "There is no discomfort, you are left out on the track and see what he says the party". Start the road to complete the Grand Slam.

Hawk's eye the harsh, fast, bright naked tracks from Flushing Meadows today to Rafael Nadal, the man who, until June, seemed to call to open an era of dominance in world tennis.

There is no pain in the knee, suffered only some abs in Montreal, but enough is enough, and the worst problem may be nerves, Toni Nadal has on his pupil and nephew. With a forcefulness only accessible to direct contact, Toni insists on the status of Ralph: As his knees in Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and could not play

Rafa Nadal's knees were still being treated, although only preventive. The confidence and self esteem are other things that are heard today with Richard Gasquet, who reappears in a Grand Slam box after three months of suspension for a positive cocaine. Gasquet 6-0 Nadal dominates in direct duels.

And Nadal, for bound and firmly tied to leave everything I can, trained yesterday under a blazing sun to a curious 'sparring partner': Marat Safin. The Nadal that hot sun shine today at Queen's is a less muscle Nadal months, as deflated, more stylish and sleek. Yesterday, Uncle Toni him out again and again, obsessively, with or without Safin to rest. Toni explains: "That abs problem bothered him in Cincinnati. We resonances with mixed results. But now you do not mind. What remains is to go to the track and see what it tells us the game. "

Gasquet of fine setback, but physically delicate and fresh out of the tunnel, there is little to lose. Nadal asked to go delaying this first round match as possible to rule out a relapse in the abdomen. Theirs is, simply a test of confidence. Rafa needs to win games to grow in faith, competitiveness and pace. But all the walkers passing through the halls of this huge stadium crazy, even more clueless NewYork, positively know that if Nadal is planted in the second week of the Open, the other applicants would look askance. It would be like if, in this 70th anniversary of 1939, a German armored group reconvened by the Polish border, near Danzig. In this case, and in 2009 in New York, there would be no Polish concerned with Nadal, but a happy father Switzerland: Roger Federer.

Rafa Nadal announced in a press conference that does not play Wimbledon because of physical problems that drag.

Rafael Nadal, world number one, confirmed in the All England Club that will not compete this year in the Wimbledon grass tournament, won last year in a final before the Swiss Roger Federer for not being "ready." The shooting, which started this year as head of the first series, has failed to overcome a problem of tendinitis in his knee and although is "much better than two weeks ago and for some time," do not feel you are ready to approach a tournament like Wimbledon. "

Nadal, who fell in the final round of Roland Garros, he wanted to make the announcement at the prestigious club, having disputed this afternoon in an exhibition match of the tournament he lost to the Hurlingham Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka. "I want to take some time to recuperate and try to return as soon as possible with the mentality owned when I reached the limit and need to return with a cleansing force, "he said." I've already nine months playing with pain in the knees and is making an effort every week, but in Madrid really did another test that told me what he had two swellings in each knee, "he said.

He also noted that for him to leave the competition was "difficult to accept" and acknowledged that no one was more "disappointed" that himself. "Throughout my life, Wimbledon, one hundred to win. The problem now is that I'm thinking about playing more on the knee in the match and it is very difficult to play, "explained the shooting.

He emphasized that he did not want "to leave the track with the feeling that I do not know if I will be ready to win and not to win, to compete." He acknowledged that athletes' live with pain "and admitted that" no one really knows where the limit is and how far one can go. " "And I really believe that this one of the most special tournaments, if not the most special, and you can play here as number one for the first time ... is hard, you know to the public. I tried everything I have to play podium explained in English, but it is impossible. I want to be ready for next year and achieve good results. "

He said that there was no time to go back - "when you are well" - and wearing "a time working in recent weeks, with magnetotherapy every day and have been working currents with different time and a half more. "Nadal wants" time to recover from this blow, "and admitted that he was unable to train" as is, always more concerned about his knees. "He also indicated that it was a time long "recover," but not really to go back and putting patches have been making in recent months. "

Although unable to explain what he believed had been the case to reach this physical situation, said that it might "want force always week after week, "although he admitted that he did not know when I should have stopped." It's probably always a mistake of mine, always wanting to be there when it hurts me most is not being able to play there. Always wanting to force every week (...). One is always making these efforts a thousand and you are wearing this time I played a little background and I am tired mentally to endure pain. "" If you ask me to me, hot, what was the error, it is clear that you would say Madrid, but I do not know if it really well, "he explained.

Nadal, defending the title, fell to Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka at the Hurlingham Club on Thursday and lost another exhibition match before the Australian Lleyton Hewitt in which showed no recovery of their knee injury.

The American got 33 wins a row

Nadal has connected in the autopilot mode Grand Slam "and is not saved to the smallest charity itself. Without self-pity, Rafa Arisco load game against his legs, his tennis days before opening Marcos Daniel. It requires "electricity" in the same train that the world less envy. Well, the reality is that today, in the fourth round of the Track LENGLEN (to 17:00) to the Russian Gabashvili, Rafael Nadal Parera reaches a peak biting fantastic: the 30 consecutive victories in the France international.

In the thirty victories followed (and slightly beyond) at Roland Garros, has risen only Chris Evert, 33-0 between 1974 and 81. Evert champion in 1974, 75, 79 and 80 (not a party between 1976-78) and fell in the semis before 1981 Hana Mandlikova, which would be the champion of the year. Wagers online . If Nadal beats today Gabashvili, who crushed weeks ago in Miami with a double 6-2, is 30-0 in Paris.

Every day in the life of this boy Manacor is a day of record or near. Nadal has just overcome the 28-0 Borg attack, and the next challenge, as Reinhold Messner to eight. First with oxygen and without oxygen after having took over the Mess Himalayas and then went to cross the Antarctica. By the way: Borg completed 28-0 in their last four tournaments in Paris, 1978-81. The Swedish and double titles in 1974 and 1975 but in 1973 and 76 a man, if only in Paris, did stop a couple of times: Adriano Panatta, good looking Italian playboy with sympathy and mental superiority to the rigors of training and concentration which was submitted by Borg Lennart Bergelin.

The relentless Bergelin, who died recently, made up of driver and driving with the window down so that Borg was not cold. Borg and we jumped Bergelin Rafa Nadal and Uncle Toni, who is a sharp eye for the nephew of esparto mat pass on the track after each work session. This mat is the magic carpet that takes you where Borg and Evert.