INSURE THAT PLAY AS VISITOR IS ALWAYS A disadvantage

The world number one tennis, the Spanish Rafael Nadal, said that for the final of the Davis Cup, which will be held from next Friday in Mar del Plata, Argentina is a favorite, "although he warned that" Spain is very strong. " "Of course I feel sorry to miss the Davis, but I think the Spanish team is very strong and has great players who are going to try the impossible to win," Nadal said in an interview Internet portal granted to the Argentine infobae.com.

"We face with Argentina is always great, regardless of my involvement, because this is a great team with excellent players who are going to give everything," he added. According to the Spanish tennis player, playing as a visitor is always a disadvantage for any team. " "We know this, but I would not know to point a level of possibilities for Argentina or Spain. I know it is going to be durísimo and I'm sure it will be surface, and I, of course, not. " a spectacle, "he said.

When asked who is more dangerous on track lasts between Argentines David Nalbandian and Juan Martin del Potro, said that "both" in equal measure. "We all know how good it is David, especially in this part of the season to be played on tracks covered. But Del Potro is having its best moment and there was in playing the Shanghai Masters Cup," he added. However, he said that "nobody is unbeatable in any

On Monday in Barcelona, the world number one tennis, the Spanish Rafael Nadal, has informed the media that do not play the Davis Cup final for his injury in his right knee. Nadal has explained that in its current condition, "the companion to go in my place will do much better than me."

How and why it has had to resign?
The decision has not been easy, but I have to accept it for medical advice. I am used to playing with pain, but this is different, new. I fail to control it. I tried to train soft, but even so I responded well the knee.

¿Guilt of the calendar?
I do not know if the injury is too much hurry. It was a very intense season, a year Olympian who squeezed everything, but I think I forced too much for getting hurt. I have not done no madness to be number one in the world.

What would you say to the fans Spanish?
That I have not said no to playing, it was my knee which has said no. I am not prepared to approach a final like this. That's why I will not be able, despite my own. These are difficult decisions to make when it is not just for oneself, but of an entire team of Davis Cup. I hope they understand that for me there is nothing bigger than defend Spain.

/> The final is lost? No. The options of Spain is not just me. Without Nadal, my colleagues can win the final. We were not even playing my favorite. Now, Argentina will have even more pressure. We have players with size enough to win, but will not be easy. I am grateful to Emilio (Sanchez Vicario) support and understanding he has had.

The Mallorcan tennis player spoke loud and clear in the long interview that he spends L'Equipe

Rafa Nadal is the number one and as such it addresses one of sport's most prestigious newspapers in the world, 'L'Equipe', that yesterday he devoted a four-page monograph.

Rafa, who says that since he is number one "feels no more pressure," once again demonstrated its maturity. The same as projected at the time when he became vice president of the council players along with Roger Federer, president and the two pushed for the president of the ATP, the South African Etienne de Villers, took the decision not to continue in office. Regarding this issue, the world number one has it clear: "I wish that the future president of the ATP is a European and less arrogant Etienne de Villers," he confesses in the interview with the French half. The manacorí, who is in France to compete in the Masters Series in Paris, has become a man with power in the tennis world and he wants the sport is run by someone who understands better tennis players and that, among other things, compile a more rational calendar.

If something also characterized Rafa Nadal is his humility despite the successes it has achieved in just 22 years. In this aspect, the player has no hesitation in acknowledging that "Federer is the best and not me," it warns that "the square of the number one may be tough to maintain next year. " Also, the angry tennis player who confesses that she had been surprised during this season has been "Andy Murray, because he has demonstrated a clear progression."

His current ranking is not something that obsessed him according to his words: "I did not get up in the morning telling me that I am the world number one," says the tennis.

And if something needs to rest because Nadal is as yesterday confessed to "get to the limit in this end of the season. I arrive just a little. " The Mallorcan recognizes that "is the latest effort, I hope to get better prepared I have left," he said after confessing to "get worse than in 2007."

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

Rafa, the Argentine: "Nothing happens, I understood the message"

The famous story of ortho Rafa Nadal is coming to an end. Last Monday, a Martin del Potro strain overwhelmed by the media after the controversial phrase ( "A Nadal is going to get the panties of ortho") phoned the number one world to clarify the misunderstanding. The player, tired of the dimensions that was reaching the controversy, wanted to settle with the manacorense.

The players laughed at the magnitude that had reached the frasecilla and with a "nothing happens, everything is normal, I understood the message" Rafael Nadal took all the heat out of the case and gave him settle their disputes coming at the controls of a video game. Nadal is aware of his mania put their pants before every point, so that was taken around the world the mood of the sentence of Argentina. The two tennis players are great friends and have shared many workouts. Among them are always throwing scream in jocular tone while throwing balls into the track, as far as Nadal is not caught improvisto of the message.



Overwhelmed.
The young Argentine has shown promise in their own meats the pros and cons of being in the media stardom. All this is new to him and he has passed bill. After defeating Russia in the semifinal Davis Cup last weekend, the player, who turned 20 years last Tuesday, canceled all events scheduled for those days with the media Argentines. Now, he wants to focus on their training before leaving for Tokyo next week.

Del Potro was the first victim of this war to recover the wounded pride. The tandilense been found in the meat of the impact of a phrase in the heat of victory.

Argentina disputed his third Davis Cup final and his first at home. After losing to the United States in 1981 and to Russia in 2006, the albicelestes not want to fail again before a title to it resists all Latin American countries.

This final has become an issue of state and that the rival is Spain and also has the world's number one at the helm makes any effort to win by civil or criminal is little. Argentina is looking to complete weapons in the face November. The elder brother is dangerous and in basketball and lost his world hegemony before Gasol and company. The opportunity is unique and juicy rival.

The first match in the playstation

The four finalists in the next singles final of the Davis: Nadal, Ferrer, and Del Potro Nabaldián are big fans of video games and especially the football game Pro Evolution Soccer for the Playstation 3. Perhaps when the four match at the Masters Madrid, there will be a final between them will advance to a screen of 40 inches as the sole witness to the event.