"Last year was bad, then try to do better this year," said the Spaniard tennis player at a roundtable held today at a London hotel after the Masters Cup
The world tennis number one, the Spanish Rafael Nadal is confident that this is the year that reach highest level in the Finals of the ATP (Masters Cup), which erased "without seeking revenge," the bad memories of last year .
"I'm not a revenge, for nothing. The Year past was wrong, it will try to do better this year, "said the Spaniard in a panel discussion today at a hotel in central London.
Nadal will return to the tournament which closed the season, and in 2009 was eliminated before the semi-finals by Russian Nikolay Davydenko after winning this year three of the four Grand Slam of the season.
Nadal explained that for the Masters Cup, which will bring together the eight best players of the moment, the O2 in London between 21 and 28 November, has been training all-in general, not particularly the serve. "
"I have also done in preparation for December and next year. I have a chance to get it earlier this year," confessed manacorense who expressed a special concern regarding the so-called "Masters Tournament", the bounce of the ball .
"Here the ball is a tad dead. It costs a little lift, but the truth is I've only played with set (with fellow Spanish David Ferrer) on the training track, "said Nadal, who would like to" try something in the system "before its debut on Monday against American Andy Roddick.
Although both Nadal and compatriot Ferrer, also ranked among the top eight players in the ATP ranking, consider the track of O2 "neither too fast nor too slow," the number one explained where difficulties arise for him in that surface.
According to Nadal, it is difficult to get perfect on that track opponents: "If you do not hit him, if no boats are high is difficult to embarrass the opponent."
What the player from Manacor think you should do in this room is to strive to raise the ball to "avoid to stay at the level that suits them the type of players who come here."
Despite all the barriers and overcome the tendinitis in his left shoulder that caused him to miss the tournament in Paris Bercy, Nadal confident that this year could be the highest level reached during the finals of the ATP, which has yet to shine.
During his meeting with the press, which called for freedom from wearing the jacket because of the heat in the room and was not granted this wish, the young player also said the possibility of changing the current schedule for the tennis season.
"For me, the choice is to shorten the schedule, but make it longer but with a format this list, but "keep winning and being on top."
The player, aged 24, showed again this afternoon which is now able to enjoy more of their achievements, after the experience in 2009 when it underwent a physical and personal bad episode.
"This has been a fantastic year.'m Sure will be times not so good, but be prepared to deal with it," he said.
Nadal, in Group A in this year's Masters Cup different, "said the reigning champion of the U.S. Open, Wimbledon and Roland Garros.
He said the change would be more appropriate to the U.S. Open and Masters Cup is finished "mandatory tournaments (those who score in the world ATP ranking).
"Should not be forced players to compete more, but also be given the option" Nadal is the proposal, which aims to keep it ruled in the first position next to Serbian Novak Djokovic, Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick, called the set of his rivals as "very aggressive", like he played last year, but said: "If I play my best, I'll do something options ".
Nadal, satisfied with the visit to David Cameron, who proved his racket
The number one tennis player, Rafael Nadal, today described as "fantastic" the visit he and the other seven finalists who will compete in the Masters Cup last night made the official residence of British Prime Minister, David Cameron, who tested the racket of Spanish in a rally with Andy Murray.
"It was a nice experience and a pleasure to be there," Nadal said when asked today by reporters at a roundtable held in a luxury hotel in London on the invitation of the Conservative Cameron in Downing Street, before starting on Sunday the 2010 edition of the Masters Cup at the O2 in London.
The Manacor, first to qualify to compete in the so-called "Masters Tournament", referred to the prime minister as "a good and important person, interested in tennis, as we showed during the reception. "He played something with Andy (Murray), but with my racket," he recalled with a laugh the last champion of Roland Garros, Wimbledon and U.S. Open.
For his part, David Cameron spoke of the importance of housing in the United Kingdom a competition like this, the last of the season. "It's great that the ATP Finals come to London for the second consecutive year. It's great for London and for the whole country," he said in that receiving the highest representative of the government of Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition.