Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer were together on Saturday Mallorca-Barcelona. The Alicante, fervent FC Barcelona, Messi admits that he enjoyed his friend's misfortune to merengue.
Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer were together on Saturday Mallorca-Barcelona. The Alicante, fervent FC Barcelona, Messi admits that he enjoyed his friend's misfortune to merengue. A footballing appetizer for Tuesday's match at Crandon Park in the second round at Key Biscayne, where the Mallorcan will number two the world if it reaches the final. This will require knocking out David rocky, as expected "a tough game, like all I've played with him."
For now, you have 11 previous eight decanted to Nadal, including the last four, three of them on clay. "It may be better for me to play on hard courts, but also not a guarantee," says Ferrer, Rafa's executioner in the second round of U.S. Open 2007.
More or less accepted their inferiority tennis, -Ferruginous that yes, it has very clear strategy, "more aggressive" than normal, "because if you start to move balls with Rafa, you take the track and you win." A sincere confession of David, who has not practiced this week with his friend. He has not even seen their games against Taylor Dent and David Nalbandian on television.
Were these two success stories to Nadal, "aware of the importance of each game," need to regain confidence in their forces by the imminent arrival of the season on clay. "Every victory gives me more confidence," summed up defeating Argentina in nearly two hours of tennis.
"We had a very long first set and I think it was better for me than for him," said Rafa just leave the center court. In victory, might come across in the second round with Andy Roddick, recent finalist at Indian Wells, a favorite at its intersection with the German Benjamin Becker. Without a trophy to put in their mouth for 11 months, the Balearic dreams of reaching the final, its roof in Miami, where he already lost the title in 2005 to Roger Federer and 2007 to Nikolay Davydenko.