Rafael Nadal etienne de villiers

At this rate does not play or two years, "Nadal told the physiotherapist that he served during the meeting of the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters before the Russian Davydenko in which he had to leave for an injury in his right leg.

An injury that will force him to miss the Masters Cup in Shanghai because it has decided not to attend the tournament teachers to be "recovered" and prepare "for the important event in Mar del Plata with my country."

Does While the players most relevant for the circuit as Nadal or Roger Federer himself by publicly protesting the huge number of tournaments to be played throughout the season and the short recovery time. A war that has confronted them with Etienne de Villiers, until now president of the ATP, and that, for now, has had a clear conclusion: Federer has been absent from the final tournament of the season, the Swiss and Spanish left in Paris and the current a number of the world will miss the event that brings together the eight best tennis circuit.

Thus, Nadal complains in the communique that offers its website: "I've said several times that the schedule of tennis this year has been very hard where practically every week is forcing players to compete not making it possible for an athlete of this elite to 100%. " However, the Balearic recognizes that his eagerness to reach number one it has subtracted something from Freshness: "Perhaps there are injured, especially at the end of the season, my physical condition."

Nadal acknowledges that it does not go to the Masters in Shanghai is "one of the hardest and most difficult decisions I ever made in my career because of the importance of the event and, especially, not to be with the fans." In addition, the champion of Roland Garros and Wimbledon did not recognize any medical evidence to have been made, although "I can say that I have taken the right decision."

A decision which is directly linked to the Davis Cup final to Spain to play Argentina on 21, 22 and Nov. 23 in Mar del Plata, as the manacorense wants to "be restored to prepare for an important appointment with my country" and that Piazza opened the tournament Chinese to French Gilles Simon, who at the Madrid Masters defeated the Spanish in the semifinals.

Rafa Nadal will be the recognition of ATP by its access to global leadership. A big deal and your audience

When a player rises to top of world rankings, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is celebrated. Was the fact that Rafa Nadal arrived at this post on August 18 last, and since then has only contested competitions run by the International Federation (the U.S. Open and the Davis Cup).

The ATP preferred to wait And it will have made almost two months to one of its tournaments as he deserves to pay homage to the tennis manacorí. And what better scenario that the Masters Series Madrid, where in October 2003 and held the number one Juan Carlos Ferrero-facing its biggest supporters.

On Sunday, Oct. 12, at 1330 hours and broadcast live by TVE, receive, in the center court of the Telefonica Madrid Arena, in the hands of the executive president of ATP, the South African Etienne De />
For his part, the organization of Madrid, at the mouth of its director, Manolo Santana, stressed that "we are delighted. A Rafa wants him in all countries, but especially here. "

The recognition will amenizado by a stunt show performed by actors from 'Dreams 2', a unique audiovisual show that reinvents the musical integrating it with extreme sports like wakeboarding, parkour, Krumpas indoor or trial and that will coincide with the start of the Villiers, who credited the trophy as world number one. "The conquest of Rafa's number one is the reward for a fantastic race in a year in the complex that has been ratified as a major player on all surfaces. It was a small feat to end the reign of Federer. Now the best player in the world and all amateur tennis players continue to expect that both measured in one of the strongest rivalries in world sport, "said De Villiers.

And added that Madrid is one more day of the tournament, with the dispute of four meetings of the table in that first final Sunday. "We want to take a holiday more to offer a better program and that more people can enjoy their favorite stars," said Santana after receiving approval from ATP to make the change.

And it is that everybody wants to see Nadal. The manacorí not before debutaría Tuesday, October 14 at eight o'clock in the afternoon (at night sitting) in the individual competition but could do so before the double, which on this occasion disputará with his friend Carlos Moya. Good sign of interest shown this year is that the tickets are sold out for semifinals and final as well as for meetings at night from Tuesday to Friday. The pace of sales has been of record.