ราฟาคงจะเจอ passion ของเธอแล้ว Nadal finds passion to knock over Djokovic
Rafael Nadal has erased once and for all any doubts about his passion for tennis going into 2012.
The Spaniard says he is fully focused on ending world No.1 Novak Djokovic's stranglehold on him.
And any lack of passion he felt in the final few tournament matches of 2011 has been well and truly forgotten by the high of Spain's Davis Cup win in December.
Nadal isn't sure whether his best will be on show at the Australian Open starting on Monday after a minor setback with his shoulder prior to Christmas.
But he believes it won't be long until he reaches the level expected, consistently makes finals and breaks through for a win over Djokovic.
"I played with fantastic passion the last two matches of the year in Davis Cup," Nadal said as he launched a responsible drinking campaign for alcohol company Bacardi on Thursday night.
"I've been working hard. I think I'm working the right way. There's Djokovic but there's a lot of fantastic players around and I have to be ready to compete against everybody.
"Last year I lost six important finals against him, but I played finals and that's something really difficult to do.
"I know how difficult it is to be there (in finals) almost all the time."
Nadal also blamed his less-than-stellar opening to 2012 in Qatar on spending longer than usual practising on match days to build up his court time following his minor shoulder problem.
The 25-year-old lost to Frenchman Gael Monfils in the semi-final, but said he wasn't concerned.
"It was a better result than I thought and the shoulder is in perfect condition," he said.
"Normally you warm up for half an hour, 40 minutes, but there I was warming up maybe an hour and a half on match days to practice a little bit more.
"Hopefully I will do well here."
The Australian Open draw will be held on Friday where Nadal will find out his first round opponent.
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I was sitting on a chair ...in the hotel, I felt like a crack on the knee really strange, Nadal said. I stand up. I felt the knee a little bit strange. I moved the leg like this two times to try to find the feeling. After the second time, the knee stays with an unbelievable pain completely straight. I have no movement on the knee.
I wasnt 100 percent sure I would have a chance to play, Nada...l added.
The Spaniard decided to play after an MRI exam showed no major damage, but he still had concerns going into the match.
I started with a little bit of a scare at the beginning, and nervous because I was really disappointed yesterday, he said. But after the first 10 games I started to play with normal conditions.
The best thing is I felt the knee very well. I really dont understand why happened everything, but I am really happy that today I was ready to play and I played a fantastic match.
บทความดีดีจาก bob and mike bryan เกี่ยวกับเรื่องที่ราฟาเปิดประเด็นพูดเรื่องตารางการแข่งที่แน่นเกิน เค้าพูดว่าเป็นสิ่งที่ดีที top players ลุกขึ้นมาพูดและเรียกร้องเพื่อให้เกิดสิ่งที่ดี เพราะสิ่งที่เค้าเรียกร้องคงไม่ทันได้ในยุคของมือทอปเหล่านี้ แต่จะเป็นไปเพื่อผู้เล่นรุ่นหลัง...... อยากให้พวกประนามราฟาได้อ่าน แต่อย่าเลยเพราะอ่านไปเค้าคงไม่เข้าใขจ เราอ่านกันเองแล้วกันนะ
Players fight for the right to a fair deal Bob and Mike Bryan January 18, 2012
Read later.It's hard to sympathise with millionaire tennis stars, but they have a point.
IT CAN get really tough when players start talking publicly about pay and conditions, because it's not really what the fans want to be hearing about.
They want to see us at their tournaments, they want to see everyone play, and they don't have much sympathy for our personal lives or our families and friends, which is understandable.
Advertisement: Story continues below We're lucky. We travel to great cities, we're well paid and we have one of the best jobs in the world, so we try not to open our mouths about a lot of that stuff. But we have some interesting times ahead because the players are more united than they have been in a while.
For a long time, it was impossible to get anything done, because all the players wanted different things, but that's starting to change.
By the end of the year, everyone's exhausted. We've been on tour now for 13 years, and we've had three-week off-seasons for that whole time.
Mike has a big house, a pool and a volleyball court that he doesn't get to use - he just gets the bills, so he doesn't think he's getting much bang for his buck there.
This year we're going to have a few extra weeks off, which is a really smart move by the ATP, because with how things have stood for the last 20 years or so, players haven't really had a chance to work on weaknesses.
You don't want to change, say, your serve, and go straight into a tournament. You need some time at home to work on things, to hit the weights hard rather than just try and maintain where you're at.
Playing so much tennis takes a physical toll too. It puts a lot of pressure on the top guys especially. That's why Rafael Nadal has been so outspoken, because if he's going to get back up to No. 1 in the world, he just has to keep playing tennis. He can't afford to miss any events.
That's where the rankings system comes into it, because if you get injured, your ranking drops straight away.
Sam Querrey got hurt for three months and dropped outside the top 100. If we've had injuries, we've kind of had to push through them, take three or four anti-inflammatories before a match and keep playing. And that would be pretty standard, because everyone has something. Nobody's ever 100 per cent, but they could be with a three- or four-month off-season.
In a perfect world, we'd have the US Open, have the tour finals for the top guys, then shut things down. As far as the rankings go, look at golf: their rankings are done over a two-year period, which means Tiger Woods can take a year off, come back and still be No. 1.
We have a player council of 11 players, and every group of players is represented on that. There's a couple of doubles players, there's someone who looks out for the top players, and players for, say, the top 25 and the lower-ranked guys as well. Everyone has someone they can talk to. In the past it hasn't really worked too well.
Everyone's had their own agendas. When you're talking about cutting the schedule, the claycourters don't want to lose any of their events, and the hardcourt guys are the same.
We have mandatory meetings that every player has to go to - you get fined if you don't turn up - and the guys on the council get together eight or so times a year, whether they meet or have conference calls and go through what they're all thinking. The meeting on the weekend was apparently pretty fiery.
But it's cool that we have Rafa, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic on the council together - the big three. They might not be on the exact same page at the moment, but that's going to happen. They're uniting the players and making sure we have a voice.
They don't need to do it - they're millionaires, they're great players and they could just focus on their tennis, but they're trying to make the game better and take it into the future, and we're becoming a stronger group because of it. We're less divided than we used to be, and that will hopefully make it easier for things to get done.
We won't be around when it happens, but we want things to be better for the young guys coming through in the future.
We have friends who've had hip replacements at the age of 40, and we don't want guys to be limping around when they're 25.
AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2012 Down Under Diary - Nadal No Fashionista Melbourne, Australia
by ATP Staff | 22.01.2012
ATPWorldTour.com takes a look at the news and talking points at the Australian Open on Sunday.
RAFA NO FASHIONISTA "I'm not Sharapova," confirmed Rafael Nadal on Sunday when questioned on his fashion sense. In his press conference following a straight-sets fourth-round win over Feliciano Lopez, the Spaniard was sporting a Nike training top with a fetching 'RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAFA' logo on it, and was asked whether he has any say in such designs. "Maria is doing," said the Spaniard. "I am just say[ing], I like; I don't like." Fortunately for the No. 2 seed, he liked what he was given, even if he doesn't quite remember giving it the green light. "We arrived here, I saw the t-shirt, and I didn't remember that I approved that. But anyway, I like it. If not, I wouldnt wear it."
เพิ่งเห็นโน๊ตคุณหมูทอง ไม่ทันละ ดูราฟาให้ได้แชมป์เลยนะคะ เพิ่งได้ดูราฟานัดแรกเมื่อวาน ดูดีกว่าที่คาดไว้เยอะ ทีแรกยังหวั่นๆว่าราฟาจะแป่ว so far so good.
Q. Congratulations. How do you think you have succeeded to turn this match around tonight?
RAFAEL NADAL: Thank you very much. Well, I think he started playing aggressive, very, very high level at the beginning of the match.
Always you can do a little bit more, no? But I really felt that when he plays like this, it's almost impossible to rise there to that level, no?
But after the first three games I started to have the chance to hit balls, to play with a little bit with my rhythm, so I started to hit a few good forehands so I felt that the point stays.
So before one shot winner, another shot winner, so almost impossible for me, no?
After that moment I felt that the level start to be closer and closer. I had the break in the 42, and for the rest of the set I think anything can happen.
I felt at the end of the first set that my level was there, close to him. For moments I felt dominant at the end of the first set. That gives me confidence.
You know, finally I lost the set, but even the first game of the second that he had the break he was playing with the wind in his favor, so he played fantastic game, first game of the second.
But that moment was a little bit more calm, because in just the first game of the second set I felt that I had chances on my returned, too. So was very important to have break back in the next game.
But in general, after that I think I started to play aggressive. I started to play my game finally. I had the chance to move him a little bit more. Open the court from his forehand after changing to his backhand.
I didn't play as I played hundreds of times against him. I didn't play all the time against his backhand like I did a lot of times.
Today I think I played more normal match, playing in his backhand, playing in his forehand, too.
I really wanted to do that before the match, because I felt that in the last match against him in London he played very aggressive with his backhand, so he was very inside the court. Was very difficult for me to find, you know, spaces to move him, no?
Even the final of Roland Garros, the same. He played more aggressive with his backhand. On clay is different. You have more time.
But today went on court with the idea change a little bit more the direction against him, and in my opinion it worked well. Because I think he was a little bit tired.
Q. When you're in a match like that and he has started so well, can you draw on your experience to having beaten him now so many times in Grand Slam matches? Can that be an inspiration for you even when he's playing well?
RAFAEL NADAL: Any moment is different, and what happened in the past is past. Last match against him was 63, 6Love in 50 minutes.
Q. That's not a Grand Slam.
RAFAEL NADAL: Not Grand Slam, different conditions. What give me more calm is I play best of five. I play not indoor. I play outdoors. That's always a little bit more advantage for me, because when you play indoor, when you play best of three, he plays aggressive. Is very difficult to come back when he start like this, no?
Playing best of five outdoor, you normally have more time to do things and to try to find solutions and on the problem that he's causing, no?
So in general, I am happy about how I did. I think I played a good match with some mistakes, as usual. But I tried to play aggressive with my forehand, trying to hit winners with my forehand.
I did for moments. For moments I had few mistakes with the backhand. But I am trying with the backhand to not go behind the baseline, to stay in the baseline, to hit the ball earlier than before.
That's something that I am working on and something that we believe that I have to keep improving, to don't lose court, to play more inside. It's working well.
I a, very happy about my result on these two weeks. I did much better than what I thought, what I dreamed for three weeks ago. So very happy for everything. It's a fantastic victory for me. Very, very happy playing against the greatest of the history in semifinals, big match on Rod Laver.
It's one of the victories that's gonna stay in my mind forever, no? It's a fantastic way to start the season. Very happy for everything. He deserves to be there because, in my opinion, he was a little bit unlucky for the last year and a half in a few matches.
He was a little bit unlucky in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon; a little bit in the semifinals on the US Open. So he had the chance to win more Grand Slams the last year and a half, and he lost a few matches that he really had chances to win.
Today he had his chances, too. So the match was close. Anything can happen there. I won.
Q. You celebrated like it was a final. Did it feel like that to you?
RAFAEL NADAL: No. Didn't feel like that. I feel like semifinals match of Grand Slam. That's a very important match for me. Start the season with the final here is a fantastic start, and that's give me a lot of confidence. That's give me a lot of calm. At the same time, that's give me confidence about how I working.
You know, I working in few things that are working well. With nothing of practice, just thinking a little bit about what we have to do to be better player. I really didn't had the chance to practice a lot. I practiced one week and a half in Mallorca.
Seriously, Doha was a very important tournament for me. Qatar I think I played very, very well there, because I arrived without preparation. Play four matches there was decisive to my preparation for Melbourne, no?
So was a very important tournament. And for the rest, just these kind of matches actually better like this, because I played not bad the second half of the season in 2011. Not bad, but not very well.
So I really need to win points to stay in the top positions of the ranking. Because the final of the US Open give me calm, yes. But for the rest I had a few struggling results in Masters 1000.
That's a lot of points for me. It's a fantastic way to start the season.
Q. I guess the question is whether or not you feel like you're playing aggressive enough with the forehand and more inside the court with the backhand and feeling calm enough if you have to play Novak this time to get over on him again.
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, I happy about how I am doing. Any time to do this during all the match, as I am doing for moments for moments I am playing a little bit like before but when I am able to play inside, to play aggressive, I think the things are working fantastic.
I don't know if it's gonna be enough against Novak or against Andy. But what can I say? I'm very happy about my tournament. I gonna try my best to try to play a fantastic final, and hopefully I will have my chances.
But if the opponents play better than me and he beat me, I gonna go home very happy about my tournament. I gonna go home knowing that the way that I am working is working very well, and keep working on this way. Probably this way give me a good success in the next months.
Q. You said when you were interviewed on the court that if you were told before the tournament that you had made the final you would not believe it. Is that because of the injuries you have had or what?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I explained before the tournament. I explained that after my match on the first round of Monday, not what happened the Sunday before on my knee, something very strange.
But that's why, because Sunday afternoon, 24 hours to play my first match, I was in my room crying because I believe I didn't had the chance to play Melbourne.
So it was a very, very tough situation for me, these hours. Two weeks later I am here in the finals, so is a dream for me because having very bad expectations 24 hours before the first match, and now two weeks later I am playing well. I am in the final.
Always play Grand Slam final is very good news. I played last four Grand Slams I have been in the finals, so is a great effort, I think.
Q. How is that knee feeling?
RAFAEL NADAL: I am feeling great. No problems.
Q. Do you think having the extra days to recover on the final will be a big advantage for you? Having the extra day advantage for the final? Your opponent plays tomorrow night.
RAFAEL NADAL: I am fine physically. I believe that they are strong. They are feeling very well, very fit, so not gonna be decisive, no?
When happens like the US Open that you play the day before, yes, because if you have five hours match, four hours 30 match, next day you can be destroyed physically, no?
But one day in the middle, if it's not something very, very crazy, you will not have problems. I had that four hours 30 match two nights ago. I was in perfect condition today.
So you can have a tougher match, yes, but four hours and a half is a lot. The recovery is very good, and they don't have problems on that, no?
If you play a match like I played in 2009 against Verdasco semifinals, maybe yes, you can have a little bit troubles for the final. But that's something not usual.
Q. Roger says he has the impression that you play your best tennis against him. Do you have that impression, as well?
RAFAEL NADAL: I think sometimes. London I didn't play my best tennis. I play my best tennis against him when I am ready to play my best tennis. I don't play my best tennis because it's Roger in front. I play my best tennis because I am ready to play my best tennis.
That's what I can say. Normally when I play against Roger it's because I am playing my best tennis because I always was in a finals or was in a very important matches, and having a good confidence because I have won a lot of matches before.
It's true I played a lot of good matches against him during my career, so is something fantastic. But I believe that he played a few fantastic matches against me too during his career, during our rivalry, no?
So I enjoy playing against him. It's always a special feeling because our matches always have been special, and especially today after a lot of ones, a lot of important moments for our careers.
So our relationship always have always been in a very positive way. So for all of this facts our matches are special, no?
I think hopefully we will repeat soon.
Q. Would you rather play Andy in the final than Novak?
RAFAEL NADAL: I prefer the player who gonna play worse that day. (Laughter.)
That's what I can say, no?
Q. What are your thoughts on the other semis, and how closely will you watch that match having in mind Andy changed his coach and Djokovic had so much success against you last year?
RAFAEL NADAL: Both players are top players, very, very high level.
The level of tennis of both players is fantastic, so gonna be a fantastic tennis match tomorrow. I gonna watch the match, because it's gonna be a fantastic show, my opinion.
Both are playing very well. Novak has the advantage that he won the last two Grand Slams. He's No. 1 of the world. He's coming with big confidence.
But Andy is doing really well. Only lost one set at the first match of the tournament. After that, he won all the matches you cannot say easy, because nothing is easy but with very comfortable result.
So when you win with a comfortable result, it is because you are playing well. That's true. So both players gonna have chances. The player who will play better tomorrow gonna be the winner.
เมื่อคืนได้ดูแค่สามเซ็ท และลุ้นเซ็ทสี่ทางมือถือ กลับมาดูแห้งตอนดึก ดีใจมากมาย ราฟาเด็กสวนมีช็อตมหัศจรรย์มากมาย คิดบวกมากมาก ขอบคุณคุณปลาดาวแปะสัมภาษณ์ที่ดีมากนี้ คุณหมูทอง sms ว่า Rafa win the match in thrill. He is real good. The match is so fantastic. ว้าววว อิจฉาคนได้ดูสดจากขอบสนามมากกก พวกเราที่นี่เจอกันวันอาทิตย์นะครับ
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ราฟาเล่นรอบแรกกับ Alex Kuznetsov(USA) vs. Rafael Nadal(ESP)[2] ที่ Hisense Arena เป็นคู่สุดท้ายวันจันทร์พรุ่งนี้
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Tommy Haas GER
David Nalbandian ARG
28 Ivan Ljubicic CRO
18 Feliciano Lopez ESP
16 John Isner (US)
10 Nicolas Almagro (Spain)
7 Tomas Berdych (Cze)
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