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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.

L 'Équipe describes the degree of the Central as "incongruous"

Experts dethrone kings for generations, the Parisian sans culottes (literally 'without breeches') that made the track Chatrier on Sunday, a Plaza of the Revolution to overthrow the king of Roland Garros, was yesterday hard countercoups: when the king, Rafa Nadal, and was swimming in the pool of his home in Manacor, his uncle and coach, Toni Nadal, took the microphone from La Ventana, in the SER, to defend his nephew. Thus: "The Parisian public is pretty stupid. The French resent the success of a Spanish () based on the happiness of another defeat I feel bad philosophy () Rafa played quite badly and Söderling was better. Hopefully we can wipe the slate clean and new account. "

But he also threw in arms against their fellow citizens on anything suspicious L'Equipe: "The earth has trembled in the west of Paris. Nadal, winner of his last 32 sets in Roland Garros () falls eliminated Söderling, a specialist in indoor tournaments he played his first round of Grand Slam, and had not been able to take over a Spanish game a month ago in Rome. It has been quite incongruous to hear the audience shouting at the Central lung Swedish name of the injured, one player less for their beloved companions. Viewers wanted to see any cost falling on the Spanish, which was only applauded After the defeat () Nadal, with great champion, has not taken into account and they welcomed his departure from the runway. "A Spanish and writes this

Among the surprise and shock, another shock for Federer in a stunned Chatrier, Tommy Haas pulled out yesterday to Roger first two sets. With 4-3 for Haas in the third, followed Federer won nine games (6-7, 5-7, 6-4, 6-0 and 6-2) and flew to the rooms in five sets. But Federer and Nadal are still tied, "says The New York Times. So it must be the All England Club, Wimbledon. And not in Paris sans culottes of red soil.

Rafa Nadal, best athlete of 2008 according to European agencies

Rafa Nadal was voted best European Athlete of the Year 2008, according to a survey of seventeen of the news agencies of the continent, including Efe. Nadal, winner in 2008, among other titles, tournaments Roland Garros and Wimbledon and the Olympic gold in Beijing, led the voting with 146 points, ahead of the pertiguista Russian Yelena Isinbayeva, European and Olympic champion (126) and British pilot Lewis Hamilton, Formula One world champion (101).

Alberto Contador, winner of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour of Spain, ranked seventh place with 36 points. Nadal is the first Spanish athlete who wins this poll, which since 1958 coordinates the Polish agency PAP. The shooting happened in the Swiss honors, including tennis, Roger Federer, winner of the previous four editions.

His great year, full of successes, has generated great interest among fans, who want to know all of it

Being chairman of the Government or the actress most international of the moment are not sufficient merit to overcome a Rafa Nadal in the network. Customers want to know everything of the best tennis player in the world and go to the Internet to have as much information about their successes, their promotional events, his private life ...

The name 'Rafa Nadal' has been 'Click' nothing more and nothing less than 22,059,615 times in the network according to the Web 'lalistawip.com' street leading to this particular ranking Spaniards most famous characters on the Internet. And is that the popularity in the network often go hand in hand with the successes of one, and it has undoubtedly been the great year of tennis Mallorcan.

In 2008 has achieved the title at Roland Garros, Wimbledon, has been Olympic champion, has emerged as the number one 'robándole' the post to eternal Roger Federer ... many important moments in your life that have moved to tennis fans to check the computer, reading, soaking in all these milestones and celebrate with him.

If we take a look at the list of Spanish characters, the distance between Rafah and its immediate pursuer, the chairman of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is abysmal. The tennis player to win political leader by 'click' with just over ten million clicks. So, you have to ZP searched through the network in 11,697,750 times while the actress Penelope Cruz, third in the list with 8,235,329 searches, goes further in almost twelve million.

The number one, who already is training for the start of next season on January 5 in Doha, is also a leader in Internet visits to tennis. The manacorí outperforms the Russian Maria Sharapova (7,231,641) and Anna Kournikova (5,568,216), second and third respectively in the number of references in a ranking in which Federer is only the fifth with 3,541,296 clicks.

Not only sporting successes attract Internet users. The charisma is also something that fans appreciate and look at your idols and this is an added value that leads Rafa written on his forehead. His humility, fellowship, fair play well away from the tracks and that despite the successes remains the same as always, it helps tremendously to be number one in the net.

Their statements in which time and again explained that "I have improved and I hope to continue improving, but I'm the same as always, I do not think in those records or in the past, but to play well. If change would be stupid "as recently stated in the Italian newspaper" La Gazzetta dello Sport 'makes in exceeding by far the network to their direct rivals in the tracks.

Where the rivalry is stronger in the list of athletes' visit '. Why football is once again the great tyrant and insured is that of 'clicks' on the Internet. Rafa must settle for third place. Le precede the British footballer David Beckham, who despite no longer being in the forefront of football continues to head the rankings with 38,136,436 of clicks. Second is the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, east 33,369,431 searches, eleven million more than Rafa.

In a few days will return to the first level of tennis to the tracks in a season in which the Majorcan must defend the number one. Which appears to have