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FRIENDS OF FRIENDS VS IKER RAFA

Now is the day. Next Tuesday December 16 at 2000 hours, friends and friends of Iker Rafa will share a unique moment, the Party for the Fight Against Malaria, to benefit Red Cross. The tickets have been sold out to see these stars of the sport and that means that recovery will be higher than last year.

Racing Karts, a game of tennis and one of Indoor Soccer, all spiced by two concerts: The Ear of Van Gogh and Andy and Lucas, is what will all those who come to the Palace of Sports to enjoy this joint initiative that part of a personal idea of the two main protagoistas.

Iker and Rafa have been preparing their teams, and have given us a single list for the moment at which the names of those invited to play the game to Combat Malaria, but we unveil When the two teams?


Many who have worked for Iker and Rafa can carry out his initiative; from the Community of Madrid which has shown its support since the first edition of this party

Excuse me that delve into the wound, the Real Madrid canutas is happening these last few weeks ...? Asked Rafa Nadal

Look, let me tell you one thing. Recently, I was very much linked with Real Madrid. It is true that is having bad luck early in the season and that injuries will not accompany them. And all that happens when your main rival, the FC Barcelona, is deploying the best game of the world. With a difference ... I like football very much. Rioja I continue every weekend and I do not lose a single match. I admire the club is playing like Barca, as bears the pressure, how they play, their style and, above all, that currently has in its ranks the best player on the planet that is Leo Messi ... No other club is close to that level. "

Rafa Nadal has caught the thread of the interview and do not want to quit: "Often I was off to Madrid and it is true that this is a club that arouses my sympathy, right time. Your flight leaves at 21.00 from El Prat airport and it deals Rafa: "A time-warns-that I'm talking about something that interests me and I want to make it clear once and for all. Sympathize with the club and not just by how they treat me. I like the unit that transmit their players on the field and outside it; are simple people. A Messi, who is the best in the world at the moment, it looks like a normal person, involved with the group ... Humble. but also confess that I feel a great admiration for FC Barcelona. I recall that I've also sung the anthem season and most goals scored as a sympathizer. In addition, my uncle has been eight years in the institution and that is something we can not forget. I was always treated like a dream, I have spent much time here in Barcelona and yes, I also feel part of this great club. "

Carlos Costa, his representative, seeks to streamline the interview because the manacorí go with the It is not going to star and that's important. They have managed to be a pineapple and all to a van. " He also appreciates the work being done by Pep Guardiola at the helm of the team. "Yes, because I was able to transmit these values, which are the key to success."

Rafa as it disappears; engullido by a human tide. These are the things of the stars. Gone are the fans, the Nike store, Barca ...

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.

For the first time in 2008, none of the three first classified in the world ranking will compete in the final of any of the nine Masters Series in the circuit in the absence of the event in Paris-Bercy.

Novak Djokovic fell into eighths, Federer and Nadal in the semifinals. Andy Murray, fourth in the world, and Gilles Simon, tenth starting Monday, averted another year the desire of any tournament, a final between the top two rackets in the world. The Madrid tournament will be dismissed from (59-15).

Behind them, David Ferrer and Murray did not spend 65 and 61, respectively. What plans have Nadal and Federer for the final stretch of the season? How to manage your energy low? "In principle I'm going to play in Basel and then we'll see what happens," Federer said after the defeat. "The first goal, to retain the number one until the end of the year, as I have met. The next is to do well in Paris," said Nadal.

Plans for the near future. A his version 'indoor' without having enjoyed the crossing expected.

Despite the huge gap reflected in the ATP list among the top three and the rest, the differences are reduced in the final leg of the course due to a grueling schedule in which the best paying the price of its success to compete more encounters than the rest. Nadal, undisputed king of the year, accumulated 89 games (80-9) in their legs; Federer reaches 71 (58-13), three less than Djokovic this stage, none dares to predict what will happen next month. In any event, Nadal could afford the racket sheathed until the next Open from Australia, in January 2009. Federer could not be dislodged until then. Enough with the Swiss have to look back to control the movements of Djokovic, who in Paris and Shanghai has options to threaten his second position.

Murray said his defeat in the face of the mathematically a Spanish presence in the highest ranking at the conclusion of a season. Juan Carlos Ferrero, number one for eight weeks in 2003, ceded his crown to Roddick in the final tournament, the Masters Cup, then based in Houston. Carlos Moya, two weeks at the helm of the ATP in 1999 after reaching the finals in Indian Wells, also failed to defend his position. Could not even finish among the top 10.

For 22 years, Nadal is the first left-handed in front of classification final since John McEnroe in 1984 and third in the history of the ATP ranking (since 1973). Jimmy Connors, a leader between 1981 and 1984, was the first.

With 344 points advantage over Federer in the Race of Champions, Nadal to him on 44, as the Swiss, even winning three tournaments in which you can still take part-Basel (50), Paris (100) and Shanghai (150) - Add a maximum of 300 points. The Mallorcan, despite the defeat, will overcome the barrier of 7,000 points on the List Ticket.

Therefore, there is no room for disappointment. "Of course not. I've come to Tournament semifinals at the first 'indoor' appreciation. "It was a shame to lose a game like this after a big fight, but I gave it my best. I'm going home happy with myself." Nadal, in contrast to the previous junction Feliciano Lopez, said no infiltration to alleviate their discomfort in his shoulder. "Today I have come across a little better. Also, I can not make a always played with a positive mindset. " treatment every day to hide the injury, "he explained.

Despite improved physical, three hours and 22 minutes of play eventually pass bill. "Both time for a match indoors is durísimo", he acknowledged. "I had many options, but could not be. I have to learn what I did wrong. I have to go a little further on the track and I lost points that you can not lose if you take a victory. Erred tactical and technical, but not me I can blame anything. I

Latvian Gulbis won in three sets and will face tomorrow to Gasquet

Beings from the outside world took the Casa de Campo to feel a being from another planet: a world in crisis, the vision of Rafael Nadal is the vision of the epic. Nadal wins games, titles and hearts because they're willing to go through anything, rather than for the drink of defeat. "What I give everything to win," is one of the answers choice of the champion of Wimbledon. And, once again



At 21:45 hours yesterday, the big tournament in Madrid appeared to slip out of the hands of Rafa Nadal, who had lost the second set to escape without shrapnel from Gulbis: tremendous gunman with a soft face of a child who was going to add 15 aces . Right there, with JM Aznar in the service, the galleries tempt your clothes and Pedro Almodovar petrified after spectacular spectacles, Nadal called a cohort of masseurs who will tempt you to the famous area where the rear back loses his honest name. ¿I was going to leave Nadal? Was it the same contracture in the area near the buttocks that almost makes you miss the decisive duel against Roddick in the Davis, in Las Ventas?

No. Nadal did not abandon: never. Federer may feel very tired, think about it and admit it. Nadal may feel tired, and finished: but it will not be permitted. It could have been in Trafalgar and receive the famous signal from the HMS Victory of Admiral Nelson: "England expects that every man do its duty." And it would have been one of those captains of Nelson that ship, crossed the enemy line without opening fire, receiving a deluge of lead in the line of duty: "The order is to cross the line, and this boat will cross the line , By God you will, "such swore men. Nadal is someone well.

Aces. Nadal is, that with the game and nearly dismantled lungs, can still draw the head of the fund, among the humareda of grenades Gulbis, who plunged its 49 shots in winning an ocean of 62 non-forced errors. Nadal is that when Gulbis and shot him with a dozen aces, early in the third set, heads or tails, you or me, it is still capable of defying the shrapnel of the Latvian and bailed to provoke a lack vital double in the fourth game : 3-1. You or I, Nadal wins. Wins the epic: what Aznar and Almodovar, so different, came to feel close.

I have to give again thank the public of Madrid for their support. Again I have achieved here is situations easier to save as hard as today (yesterday). It was very hard. Gulbis has played aggressively, hitting durísimo and gave no rhythm. I called the masseur early in the third set because I noticed a puncture in the buttocks, which was stringing. It was settled and well. With Gasquet got a good record (5-0), but matches have always been complicated. It will be a party durísimo, very difficult, and I know I will have to play at high level