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Publish 02 December 2011 in The Player - 8694 views

"I made three Grand Slam finals, ten finishes in other tournaments, and I´m in the final of the Davis. The year has been very good. I well accepted that a player has done better."

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal said on Wednesday that "it will be very difficult," that next season "can compete" in the Davis Cup final which takes place this year from next Friday, and go to "look forward" and "happy" with training in Seville from this week.

Rafael Nadal, ve complicada su participación en la próxima copa Davis "Next year will be very complicated to compete in the Davis Cup, but hey, we´ll end it is more important and then we`ll talk about next year," Nadal said in remarks at the first touch `program´ of Onda Cero.

Regarding the final against Argentina, the Spaniard was keen to start the round. "I hope to experience the atmosphere that took place in Cordoba in the semifinals, hopefully this is repeated or exceeded. I hope the public will encourage us and help us. From Argentina come two thousand and something, and are noisy," he said.

"The fact that he plays for a team is a different feeling, and personally I love it. It´s a shame that the schedule is so tight, the competition of the Davis nothing has changed for so many years because it is a competitions they bring to yourself, "he added.

In relation to his season, Nadal again denied that he was a bad year. "The worst is that there have been times that I`ve missed a ball stand. Continue to fight a ball, especially against Djokovic. And what happens is that I´m human. This has been negative. Do you positive? Is that all losses, without exception, have accepted it perfectly, "he said.

"The year has been good, what happens is that when you do a year like I did last year, it is clear that next year may not be repeated. And this year I made three Grand Slam finals, I have gained one, I made ten finishes in other tournaments, and am in the Davis Cup final. The year is still very good. Does one has been better than me? Yes, there will have to accept it and work, "he said.

On the other hand, and their statements that claimed to have lost enthusiasm for racing, the Manacor would qualify. "What I meant is that from the China Shanghai I found a bit lacking in enthusiasm for racing. But of course. He had a thousand games without stopping, playing very good games, accepting defeat and turning difficult to raise," he said.

"I looked good, but also mentally fatigued. Surely my head ended the year at that time. So I said I had missed a bit of passion to compete in those games. But I am sure I will not here" , Sticking.

Yannick NOAH RESPONDS NADAL

Finally, Nadal spoke the words of Yannick Noah, who stated that Spanish athletes were based on "magic potions" to get good results. "Coming from one who is also much less affected," he said.

"The bottom one looks after advertising and excuses. And one thing I assure you, when Noah was playing was probably no anti-doping controls and controls us spend week after week," concluded Nadal, who believes that the French media "are very obsessed with this issue. "


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Publish 04 December 2009 in The Player - 19709 views

The Spaniard has beaten Berdych the last five meetings between the two • The Balearic only once gave his service • The Frenchman Pascal Maria was the umpire of the match · Spain has won 17 rounds in a row house

Rafael Nadal won the first point of the Davis Cup final 2009 to subdue Tomas Berdych in three sets. The world No. 2 displayed a good tennis on clay at the Palau Sant Jordi and took the first point of the heat to Spain against the Czech Republic.

Nadal: cumplió lo prometido, ganar el primer punto Rafa Nadal, Spanish No. 1 team, defeated Tomas Berdych, Czech combined number 2, for an aggregate score of 7-5, 6-0 and 6-2 after two hours and twenty minutes of play in a match held on clay Palau Sant Jordi a garlanded and packed for the occasion.

The first set was a true reflection of what is expected of a Davis Cup match: alternation on the scoreboard, tension and definition detail. In this case, Nadal, who knows proficient with this type of situation, managed to send his locker the first set after 67 minutes of a 7-5 game and biased.

The clash began in the best possible way to Rafah, with a break in the opening game that made him drop the nerves before the start of a final. Berdych, however, was not the work of pulling all the work to the first exchange and reacted with a contrabreak.

The acting party won at the same time under tension and good example was a couple of pots of the ball doubtful that the Czech captain vehemently protested, so was the booing of the audience.

The Czech hammered Nadal with the whip which is drive, while Rafa to take the pressure holds steady, and summoning an optimum fitness. He learned to be patient, cheer and encourage a public timid at times and at key times of the set, the eleventh game, Berdych knew cornered in the back of the court, wherever the Czech suffer more, and signed a new rupture in the next game certify to join the set.

Rhythm of drums in the stands. Everything went smoothly. Especially after Rafa managed to take the first game after the restart with a game the rest blank. Again Berdych had the opportunity to make contrabreak, but this time Nadal not only avoided, but managed to raise more revenue. Al Balearic more into track, was more common to see him praying with his fist, well aware that things were going according to script expected. More into track, Rafa dominated the time of the game, while Berdych, who seemed to have forgotten how winners become missiles, barely put up a ball trying to return. The Czechs ended up paying the most cruel way possible: accepting a ROSC.

Berdych went to the locker room a few minutes to calm nerves, assimilate what he was falling down and think about a Plan B to be able to turn 180 degrees to match. Hit the track convinced he can do and the first point even appeared to do battle again, but nothing beyond reality. Nadal, whose feeling with the ball was more than obvious, again breaking the Czech's serve in the opening game. And in the third. One advantage that paved the way for a victory that was held together by a Palau delivered with the main stronghold of the Spanish combined. All the audience fired up Rafa song I gotta feeling. The first point to Buchaca!

After this triumph, Spain leads the final 1-0 to the Czech Republic and is at the expense of what happens in the second game of the day that measures to David Ferrer, No. 2 of the Navy, with Radek Stepanek, number 1 the combined Spanish


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