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He knows what is remembered are the titles and do not want this Grand Slam missing from his resume. Will all

Australia is the example to follow. Rafa Nadal arrived there not knowing if I could win or lose but I worked hard enough to find inspiration and have made every sense in the competition. Then came the title which had resisted all his life to a Spanish tennis player. Now, in New York is at the only Grand Slam that is not on his resume. It takes nearly two weeks training well, normally. My knees are fine, my energy level, one hundred percent and do not know too much where I am at the level of confidence, I am quiet and then well see, said at a news conference yesterday.

I think there is anything that does not give special this tournament, Nadal pointed to that every year has improved its performance and achieves best result the semifinals last year against Murray. I get better than expected but aware that I have never gone to the semifinals. If I quarters or semis will be a great tournament for me and probably I will go home happy .... But this later in my career, will count for nothing. Especially in the big one that I miss. So I come here to win, snapped Rafa, who was not affected having lost two positions in the ranking does not affect what I can from the number three, sentence, do not feel youve been unlucky with his injury and that it stands not had fathered twins. be back. I have not gone and I am well and able to win big tournaments soon. Less pressure? The same, it is the same one gets, says Nadal stressing that their first opponents, Gasquet, is of no seedings has the greatest potential, a player who has known 13 years ago and returns after the penalty for having tested positive for cocaine in March. Rafa defends the innocence of the Gaul and confesses he was surprised to learn that Roger Federer

Rafa Nadal has won 5 of 7 games in his return. "I think that is enough" to tackle the next appointment

He left the track at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati amid cheers and applause. He lost to Novak Djokovic (6-1, 6-4) and thus, Rafa Nadal also lost the chance to regain the world number two (here we correct information yesterday, following ATP incorrect data for the points that awarded for each round in this wins) who has played in his return.

The silver lining is that Rafa has competed two weeks with no problems, apart from some discomfort, logical after inactivity but that did not affect his ability-and is happy about everything. By being here and being more prepared for the U.S. Open than I expected before this tour. " The next August 31 opened the doors of the Grand Slam last year and there is a challenge to the Spaniard, who hopes to take the final step in the tracks tournament. If Nadal had won the title, I would have to be Federer's dolphin with just 55 points ahead of Murray) but Nadal Cincinnati worship, but must wait another year to see him in the only final Masters 1000 has not yet played . "I think I need to play more games at this level to compete again as they did. I was not one hundred percent ready to play at this level ", recognized a Rafa deemed" sufficient "the seven games (five freshness, both physically and mentally, with whom he will face the U.S. Open. Never reached this far in advance to the Big Apple so you will have time to acclimatise to a big tournament that many have described as complicated. Bjorn Borg, for example, could never win, Mats Wilander did it in its seventh participation and Andre Agassi in the ninth. They say they used to their tracks, the public-noisy and sometimes irreverent, climatic conditions, the frenetic pace of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. "I play well and try to win," he said before admitting that "physically and mentally it's hard for me to be prepared. But I think this match (with Djokovic) will be a good experience for me to try to take that step I need in New York, "acknowledged Nadal, before adding that" I shall see how to play games at the best of five sets. "

That is, perhaps, the big question, though offset by the city is not so easy. But Nadal loves a challenge. And closing the loop with the only Grand Slam that is missing would be the bomb ...