Debuts this Saturday in Indian Wells with German Rainer Schuettler · "I love the tournament because you feel out of the world," says the Spaniard Combines training with golf games
On the eve of his debut in Indian Wells against Rainer Schuettler, and the conclusion of their morning training with Juan Carlos Ferrero, the defending champion in the California desert was presented to the media. Nadal moves crowds smell. Not played since the fourth Australia Open when he had to retire with Andy Murray, and is eager to start touring the United States.
"I'm happy to be back at Indian Wells. Why wait to land. I need to shoot matches and this tournament is one of my favorites because you feel out the world. I've won twice and twice I semifinals," he reflects.
So many physical setbacks, Nadal acknowledges having learned that "you have to be more patient and take things easy because it's part of sport. Clearly it is difficult to accept that after you work so hard in preseason injuries to the second tournament. With Murray might lose but I felt the level to win in Australia. It had better feelings in the last seven months of 2009. I always do what the doctor tells me I am calm and in this respect. I'm only 23 and not 28, something that sometimes people forget, and I feel lucky to have what I have at this age. "
Nadal's image has been relaunched in the Americas after the video clip you just star with Colombian pop singer Shakira and that was filmed in mid-February in Barcelona sail hotel. "I like how it has become perhaps the latter sequences could have been shorter."
On his busy schedule during the tour of clay, which is aimed at Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome and Madrid, as a prelude to Roland Garros, the Spanish tennis advised that "I think they should not change what has worked. The only change I made, twice, is not playing Hamburg, which is the last before Paris.