เมื่อวันเสาร์ราฟาให้สัมภาษณ์กับนักข่าวค่ะ ( ไม่ชอบ Blue Clay เลย มันดูแปลก ๆ ยังไงไม่รู้ค่ะ แต่ว่าสนามแข่งจริง ๆ ก็ยังใช้ Red Clay ค่ะ )
สัมภาษณ์ราฟาค่ะ ( ตัดมาจากหลาย ๆ เว็บไซค์ค่ะ ) Nadal "spectacular" but anything can happen Lets see if I can feel good by the time my first match comes around, said Nadal in a pre-tournament press conference on Saturday.
I have time to adapt to the environment. With the altitude its a little more difficult to control the ball and opponents can do more damage, but the conditions are equal for all.
Every time I go on the court I am aware that it will be difficult to win and that anything can happen, said the world No.1.
You have to be content with yourself and that you have worked hard. Nadal said he had no preference as to whether he played first round foes Alberto Montanes or Jurgen Melzer in the second round saying, They are both good players, the main thing is for me to play well.
ราฟาพูดถึง Blue Clay ค่ะ Rafael Nadal, speaking to reporters in Madrid, on the tournament's desire to have blue-colored clay courts in the future: "I can say that no matter how perfect it is, I'm totally against it. I think that the clay season is one of the most historic in tennis and the clay court is red, not blue. Tennis is not just show business; there's history and tradition and that says it's red and there are symbolic things that the sporting world should preserve."
อามาฝากพี่รวัลย์ค่ะ น้องเดลพูดถึงราฟาค่ะ THE Argentine BELIEVES THAT ONLY A BADLY DAY OF NADAL CAN FOLD TO THE NUMBER 1 Juan Martin Del Potro: "Nadal can win you even in ice"
The albiceleste is very clear who is the man to beat, Rafa Nadal. "Rafa wins everything that plays nowadays. He won in Australia, Indian Wells, Montecarlo, Barcelona, Rome... is noted the difference with Federer, Djokovic and Murray, above all when is a matter of clay". Nevertheless, he is one of the few that has earned upon shooting this year. The trick? "Do not I believe that have any trick. Simply you need to play the match of your life, and to be lucky that Rafa be below of his normal average. Nowadays, Rafa can win you in land, in hard courts, in indoor... even if you play a game on ice!".
"Todays news on the official website of the Mutua Madrileña Masters Open confirm that the first round match between Spaniard Albert Montañés and Austrian Jurgen Melzer will be scheduled for Tuesday and therefore, it looks as though Rafa will play on Wednesday instead of tomorrow as it was initially announced."
Federer Fails to Deter Nadal in Fight to Be Richest Tennis Star
By Danielle Rossingh and Alex Duff
May 6 (Bloomberg) -- While Rafael Nadal claimed four French Open titles and a Wimbledon championship on his way to becoming the No. 1 player in tennis by age 22, hes never quite been in the drivers seat of his own career when it comes to money.
Consider the saga of Nadals $50,000 Mercedes SLK 200 Kompressor. In 2005, his breakout year as a pro, Nadal won the Mercedes Cup final in Stuttgart, Germany, with a characteristic backhand smash that his opponent couldnt handle. In a sweat- soaked shirt, he climbed into the silver convertible sports car parked on the red-clay court -- part of his prize for winning the event -- and inched it forward a few yards.
Toni Nadal, Rafaels coach and uncle, who was watching from the stands, told his nephew soon after the event to forget about driving the car any farther. Toni arranged for Kia Motors Corp., a Nadal sponsor, to provide him with a $20,000 Sorento sport utility vehicle, which he drove while the Mercedes gathered dust in the familys garage for two years.
I said I wouldnt like him to have a luxury car, Toni says. I never wanted him to be incorrect or have a showoff attitude.
Under Tonis tutelage, Nadal ended Roger Federers 4 1/2 year reign as the worlds best tennis player in 2008 and is favored to win his fifth French Open, a Grand Slam event starting on May 24. In the sporting worlds most riveting head- to-head rivalry, Nadal still lags behind Federer in at least one notable category -- earning power.
Money Leader
Federer tops the money list in tennis, with an annual income from tournaments and endorsements of $35.1 million, placing him 11th on Sports Illustrateds 2008 ranking of the top 50 earners in sports. Tiger Woods, at $127.9 million, is by far the richest athlete, followed by golf rival Phil Mickelson and Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham.
Nadal, who didnt make the cut, probably earned about $15 million to $20 million in 2008, says Simon Chadwick, a professor of sport business strategy and marketing at the U.K.s Coventry University Business School.
This year, Nadal may be gaining ground on Federer as a moneymaker too. After winning his first Wimbledon title and the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Nadal signed deals with three corporate sponsors including Mapfre SA, Spains largest insurer, bringing his endorsement total to nine.
Old-Fashioned Nadal
While marketers mostly use Nadal for promotions in Spain, Nike Inc. is repackaging him for a broader international audience. In January, the worlds largest athletic shoe maker outfitted him in more conventional attire, ditching his sleeveless muscle top and three-quarter-length pants for a polo shirt and shorts.
Nadal is on the way to becoming a global brand, says Steve Simon, tournament director of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, an event that the Spaniard won in March. Beckham has been there for years. Federer has been there for years. Nadal, if he can stay healthy and continue to play like he is today, is going to be there as well.
The product of a close-knit Spanish family that prizes discipline and modesty over fame, Nadal is taking an almost quaint route to the accumulation of wealth. While sports is full of stars like Russias Anna Kournikova, who once made more money from sponsors than any other female athlete without ever claiming a singles tennis title, Nadal refuses to let endorsements distract him from improving his game.
Maybe he is just an old-fashioned type of sports person, somebody who sees the sport as the single-most-important thing, Chadwick says.
Nadals Brand
At a press conference at Indian Wells, Nadal said that too many endorsements meant too many days of work in an already hectic 11-month season. In February, after a 24-hour journey from the Australian Open to the island of Majorca, Nadal spent 10 hours filming his seventh ad in a year for Banco Espanol de Credito SA, a unit of Banco Santander SA, Spains biggest lender.
I am a tennis player, Nadal said at Indian Wells. For me, its very, very important, the sponsors, sure. But at the same time, I want to have time, enough time to practice and to continue to improve my tennis.
With Nadal, marketers get an unusual mix of humility and virility, or what Tom Cannon, a professor and sports finance expert at the University of Liverpool Management School in England, calls a safe rebel. On the court, with bulging biceps and a bandana over his wavy dark-brown hair, Nadal is a warrior with a wicked forehand -- an image used by Kia in television commercials. Off the court, Nadal, who still lives with his parents in their apartment in the small town of Manacor on Majorca, is humble and reserved. He shows it every time he calls No. 2 Federer the worlds best.
Fashionable Federer
Federer, the sports leading brand, flaunts his fame, attending New York Fashion Week with Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour in 2006. Gillette Co., the leading razor blade maker, used Federer, 27, Woods, 33, and French soccer star Thierry Henry in 2007 in its largest sports advertising campaign that year, which reached 150 markets worldwide.
Federer, a native of Switzerland who speaks Swiss German, German, English and French, appeals to sponsors such as Rolex Group with his sophisticated self-assurance, Chadwick says.
Federer has a set of values that makes him very appealing to sponsors; he is very approachable, he says. Nadal has a more mysterious quality. He needs to be less mysterious, more outgoing.
Matching Laver
Nadal is now making a run at winning all four Grand Slam events in one calendar year -- a feat last accomplished in the mens game by Australias Rod Laver in 1969. Since then, advances in racket technology and a longer season have added to the physical toll on a players body, making it tougher to repeat Lavers masterpiece.
With his overpowering topspin shots and boundless energy, Nadal reduced Federer to tears by beating him at the Australian Open final in February, the first Grand Slam event of the year. After the French Open, Nadal will have to take Wimbledon and the U.S. Open -- an event hes never won -- to achieve whats eluded almost every top player.
What Nadal is doing in this moment is just incredible, former Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia said at Indian Wells. You have to give him credit for that. Not everybody is as physically ready as he is.
Just like Nadals tennis, his income -- including more than $24 million in prize money won since 2001 -- is a family affair. Nadal lets his father, Sebastian, manage his money with the help of a financial adviser.
Brothers in Business
Rafael doesnt have any experience in business; its normal that his father takes care of things, says Toni, Sebastians brother.
Rafael comes from a family of small-business owners. Sebastian, 50, and Toni, 49, started a window-making company, Vidres Mallorca SL, with five employees in Manacor in the mid- 1980s. With their third brother, Miguel Angel, 42, a former soccer pro, they bought the Sa Punta restaurant, which has a 300-square-meter (3,200-square-foot) terrace overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in the Son Servera area of Majorca.
The trio also opened a cafe, an English-language school and the Grup dAssegurances insurance company on Manacors town square. The three brothers all own homes on the same oceanfront street in the resort of Porto Cristo.
When we buy something, we buy together, Toni says. Rafael has some investments with us as well, but he has many more things on his own.
Nadals Investments
Rafael owns four companies that aim to invest in real estate, hotels, bars and restaurants and other businesses. He has a stake in a hotel in Mexico, a warehouse in Majorca and real estate in Spain. One company, Debamina SL, had equity of 3.1 million euros ($4 million) and a loss of 6,780 euros as of the end of 2007, according to its public filings. Rafael also put a little bit of money in the stock market.
They are ordinary investments, the kind of stakes in companies that many people have, says Sebastian, who declined to provide details.
The companies are in San Sebastian, a tourist destination in northern Spain known for its two three-Michelin-star restaurants. The city of 180,000 is part of the semiautonomous Basque region, where the group Basque Homeland and Freedom, known by the acronym ETA, has carried out deadly bombings and shootings to win full independence as recently as December. Sebastian says he picked the region because hes had business partners, some former professional soccer players, in the area for more than a decade.
Indian Wells
The financial adviser, whom Sebastian declined to name, has also set up a pension for Nadal, who plays a sport in which players typically retire before the age of 35. In 2006, Nadal placed 6.1 million euros with Goramendi Siglo XXI SL, another company he owns. Hell get the exact sum back in annual payments of 180,000 euros every Jan. 1 from the ages of 30 to 63, a company filing shows.
For now, it gives him security, Toni says. There will be time to spend in the future.
For top tennis pros, prize money from tournaments amounts to a small fraction of their take from sponsors. At Indian Wells, Nadal demonstrates the unrestrained style on the court that lures endorsements and fans to him.
Before the tournament, he enters an almost empty main stadium to practice. At the baseline, he pulls off his tennis shorts, allowing observers a peek at him in his tight, white briefs. Two women in the press box scramble for their mobile phones to snap photos. After changing into three-quarter-length pants that he sometimes wears for practice, Nadal begins his warm-up.
Youth Appeal
Unlike Federer, who practices at half speed before matches, Nadal is going full throttle within 10 minutes. He sweats profusely, groans at every stroke and occasionally shouts at himself after making a mistake. The sounds of his shots reverberate throughout the stadium.
Nike signed Nadal in 1999, when he was only 13. Federer and two other top 10 pros wear the Nike swoosh as well.
Rafa connects with todays youth, Nike spokeswoman Marloes Jonker says. We consider Rafa to be a key driver of our brand.
In 2005, at age 18, the tennis prodigy erupted as a dominating force, becoming the first teenager to win 11 tournaments in one season. Nadal made his mark on slower clay courts, like those of the French Open, where his topspin shots have even more bounce to frustrate opponents.
Strongest Player
At the semifinals of the 2005 French Open, the Spaniard first met Federer, then the worlds best, in a Grand Slam event. It was Nadals 19th birthday and he played almost flawlessly, making 30 fewer unforced errors than the Swiss champion in a four-set victory.
Nadal is physically the strongest player on the tour, and mentally he has this incredible ability to stay focused from the first point to the last, says Djokovic, one of the top 5 players.
During the 2006 season, Nadal adjusted his style to finish matches more quickly and reduce the wear on his arms and legs. On hard courts and grass, where the ball bounces lower, he stood closer to the baseline and used a greater variety of shots, such as a one-handed backhand slice. In the finals of the Dubai Open in March of that year, Nadal ended Federers run of 56 consecutive matches won on hard courts and also beat him during the finals of the French Open for his second Grand Slam victory.
Banesto Deal
As Nadal earned more victories -- completing a record winning streak of 81 consecutive matches on clay in 2007 -- he lured bigger sponsors. In October, he cut a shampoo endorsement deal with Paris-based LOreal SA, the worlds leading cosmetic maker, which uses him only in ads in Spain. He also hooked up with Banco Espanol de Credito, or Banesto, that same month.
Rafaels agent Carlos Costa, a former tennis pro who stays in the Nadal family home when visiting, offered Banesto a sponsorship on a Wednesday. Chairwoman Ana Patricia Botin, the daughter of Emilio Botin, the patriarch of the family that has helped run Santander for 114 years, agreed to the four-year deal the following Monday, says Rami Aboukhair, marketing director of the bank.
Rafa is perfect for us, Aboukhair says. He appeals to 5- year-old kids, mothers, grandmothers. Fathers see him as a very good role model for their children.
Banesto, whose net income fell 3.1 percent in the first quarter amid a recession in Spain, is using Nadal to boost deposits. One television ad shows Nadal, dressed in a gray sports coat without a tie, alongside business-suited bank employees shouting Vamos! -- his on-court battle cry that means Lets go!
Wimbledon Match
The bank offers people 500 euros for directly depositing their paychecks of at least 1,000 euros into a Banesto account for 40 months. Last year, 300,000 customers signed up through a similar promotion fronted by Nadal.
It was far more successful than we had expected, Aboukhair says. Nadal is popular with everyone.
Last July, Nadal met Federer at Wimbledon in what seven- time Grand Slam singles champion John McEnroe called the greatest match hed ever seen. Many of the 13,800 Centre Court spectators were on their feet as both men produced winners from seemingly impossible angles. After Nadal, who had never won on the grass at Wimbledon, took the first two sets, 6-4, 6-4, Federer snatched the next two on tiebreakers, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (10-8).
Babolat Sales Rise
Serving for the championship at 8-7 in the fifth set, in near darkness, Nadal stunned Federer when he changed tactics and played his first serve-and-volley point of the match to even the score at 15-15. Nadal won on his fourth match point when Federer dumped a routine forehand into the net. A tearful Nadal fell on his back, his arms stretched out wide, after winning the longest mens singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, founded in 1868.
Its probably my hardest loss, by far, Federer told reporters after the match.
Nadals victory gave a boost to French racket manufacturer Babolat, which has a multimillion-dollar deal with the Spaniard. Sales of the AeroPro Drive racket endorsed by Nadal increased as much as 30 percent for many retailers following the Wimbledon final, says Tim McCool, the Lyon, France-based companys managing director of U.S. operations.
His passion shows from the first serve to the last, McCool says.
Sexy Virility
After Nadal took over the top spot in tennis last year, more sponsors signed up. New York-based Inter Parfums Inc. made Nadal the worldwide ambassador for its mens fragrance, Lanvin LHomme Sport. In one ad, Nadal wears a half-unbuttoned white shirt with a black tie hanging loosely around his neck. In a press release, Lanvin hails his sexy virility.
Nadal was schooled in hard work in Manacor, a furniture manufacturing town of 38,000 residents which has none of the glamour of Palma, the yacht-filled summer haunt on the southwest coast of Majorca popular with celebrities such as the Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Surrounded by fig and almond tree groves, Manacors few visitors stay in its one hotel, a two-star inn with a dozen simple rooms.
For the last six years, the town has been run by councilmen from the Peoples Party, conservatives with close ties to the Catholic Church. Manacor remains a place where Nadal can walk the streets without being hounded by paparazzi and autograph hunters.
The character of a Majorcan is not to look for fame, Toni says. Rafael has lived in the same place since he was little. He doesnt want to complicate his life by thinking about whether he is famous or not. Hes family oriented.
For Nadal, playing tennis was almost preordained. He and his younger sister Maribel grew up in an apartment above a tennis equipment shop and across the street from Manacor Club de Tenis on the edge of town. Toni, a broad-shouldered and soft- spoken man, was the in-house coach at the tennis club. He took the job after failing to break into the ranks of Spains top 20 professional players.
Toni began training Nadal at age 4.
My involvement with him is not only about tennis; hes my nephew, says Toni, a father of three young children. I didnt have a son at the time; he is almost like a son to me.
After primary school at the Catholic Colegio San Vicente de Paul, Nadal would dash to the tennis club to work with Toni for about an hour. Nadal often stayed into the night to hit balls and play with friends.
Hed be here until 9 p.m., says Juan Hidalgo, 70, the tennis club manager. His dad would come over here and yell, Youve got to go to school tomorrow.
Training in Discipline
The Nadals did almost everything as a family. When Rafael was in primary school, Sebastian, Toni and Miguel Angel bought a five-story apartment building on Manacors central square. Three generations of the family moved into the historic apartment building with wooden shutters called El Palau, or the Palace, named after the 14th-century residence of Jaume II when Majorca was a kingdom. Rafael and his parents live in one apartment, his grandparents are in another and Tonis family occupies a third unit.
At practice, Toni kept Rafael disciplined, ordering him to pick up tennis balls and rake the clay surface -- a routine he still follows today after workouts. By age 8, Rafael was winning tournaments against 12-year-olds. While Rafael was still a child, Toni coaxed him to make a fundamental change from a double-handed grip on both sides to a single grip for forehand shots.
There werent any double-handed players in the top 10, Toni says. It was logical. He was surprised to discover that Nadal, who writes with his right hand, had more power with his left. At age 10, Nadal became a lefty in a game dominated by right-handed players.
Soccer Hero
Nadals heroes as a kid were soccer, not tennis, stars. His uncle Miguel Angel, a rugged defender with a fierce right-foot shot, played for Barcelona when it won the European Cup in 1992 and was the captain of Spains soccer team at the World Cup in the U.S. in 1994. The following year, Manacor named its new municipal sports center after its then best-known athlete, Miguel Angel.
He is a very calm guy and knows how to keep everything balanced, and makes sure that I do not get carried away with myself, Nadal told reporters in 2005.
The Spanish tennis federation offered the 14-year-old Nadal a grant to train and study at the elite San Cugat sports academy in Barcelona. Sebastian and Toni turned down the grant because they didnt want him to be separated from his family at such a young age. Instead, he enrolled closer to home in the smaller Sports Technical Center and the Instituto Son Pacs high school in Palma.
Pro at 16
The coach made the 100-kilometer (62-mile) round trip twice a day on weekdays to bring Nadal to and from Palma. Nadal arrived home in Manacor as late as 10 p.m. after wolfing down a sandwich for dinner in Tonis car.
Marisa Cerdo, Nadals tutor, says he was an average student who always finished his homework even though he missed classes for two weeks at a time to attend tournaments, including one in Australia.
He would never say where hed been; hed never boast about it, Cerdo says. His father asked me not to give him special treatment.
In 2002, at age 15, Nadal won his first professional tour match at the Majorcan Open. Two months later in June, he turned 16 and quit school to become a full-time tennis pro.
Nadals Family
Nadals family is investing in the person as much as the sportsman, says Santiago Alvarez de Mon, a professor at IESE Business School in Barcelona who has written about Nadal. That explains his mental fortitude. Hes still with the same girlfriend hes had for ages and the same friends.
Nadals girlfriend, Maria Francesca Perello, is a business studies university student in Majorca.
Today, Nadal still trains at the Manacor club, where paint peels from the pink facade and weeds grow in the crumbling tarmac courts. Toni leads Rafaels practices, which sometimes run to four hours of high-intensity hitting. Toni isnt paid for this coaching; he supports his family with a share of the profits from the window company, which had a net income of 2.5 million euros in 2007.
At times, the coach has let Nadal make mistakes to teach him a lesson. Eric Babolat, chief executive officer of racket company Babolat, says in 2004 he overheard Rafaels agent Costa alert Toni that Rafael was about to eat three chocolate croissants before a preliminary match at the Paris Masters. Costa was concerned the calorie-rich pastries would make Nadal sluggish on the court.
U.S. Open
Toni told Carlos to let him, that he will learn that he will lose the match, Babolat says. Rafa did lose that match. That says a lot about Tonis coaching style.
That approach so far has paid off in six Grand Slam victories as Nadal sets his sights on the U.S. Open, the last major event of the year, played at Flushing Meadows in the New York borough of Queens, starting on Aug. 31.
The U.S. Open is a big goal right now, Nadal said at Indian Wells.
For the Spaniard, winning the event is the key to gaining bigger endorsements in the U.S. and possibly even surpassing Federers earnings, the University of Liverpools Cannon says.
Nadal could outearn Federer, he says. The big question is whether the market would allow for those kinds of earnings. The market for big, international sponsorships is flat right now.
The same indefatigable style thats helped Nadal win could also lead to injuries that curtail his career.
Injury Prone
Everyone in the industry knows that because of his power tennis, Nadal is injury prone, says Frank van den Wall Bake, a sports marketing consultant in Hilversum, Netherlands. At the start of 2006, Nadal skipped the Australian Open due to a recurring stress fracture injury to his foot. In 2008, after playing 93 matches -- the most of any player on the mens tour -- he pulled out of the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai and the Davis Cup final in Argentina because of tendonitis in his knees.
Toni blames the injuries on the ATP World Tour, the governing body of the mens tennis tour, which he says schedules too many tournaments on hard courts.
Its the fault of the ATP; they dont look after the health of the players, Toni says. If you brake hard reaching a ball traveling at 100 kilometers per hour on a hard court, your joints suffer.
Maturing Look
Sponsors are betting on Nadal for the long haul, with Babolat signing a 10-year deal with him in 2007. Nike is also banking on many more years with Nadal. He debuted his new attire, which might widen his appeal to an older audience, at an exhibition match in Abu Dhabi this year.
I was really impressed he was wearing a shirt, says Lisa Behring, a 45-year-old mother from Blackhawk, California, who attended the Indian Wells tournament. Its kind of nice not to see the arm hair. The sleeveless top was very teenagerlike.
Nadals mature outfit hasnt stopped him from acting like a teenager, particularly when playing video games in the dead time between matches. Marc Lopez, Nadals friend and occasional doubles partner, says the two men play video soccer when theyre on the road. The price of losing is public humiliation.
Normally, we make the other person go down to the middle of the hotel lobby and do 10 push-ups, or 10 kangaroo jumps, Lopez says.
With Tonis blessing, Nadal also changed his on-road appearance late last year. He traded his Kia Sorento for a $270,000 Aston Martin DBS -- the same car driven by Daniel Craig in the 2008 James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
Federers Challenge
What hasnt changed is Nadals passion to win, and that means beating Federer. One Grand Slam shy of Pete Samprass record 14 titles, the Swiss isnt about to willingly pass the torch to Nadal, who turns 23 in June. At Indian Wells, Federer told reporters that he likes Nadals chances of winning the four majors this year.
He definitely has a shot to do it, Federer said. I know theres many guys out there that wont let that happen, and I am one of them.
Nadal, ever modest, said its unlikely that hell also triumph in the remaining three Grand Slam events this year.
My chances are really small, Nadal said at Indian Wells, holding up two fingers just barely apart to show exactly how small.
With a potent mix of a dedicated family, unsurpassed athleticism and youth, Nadal will shatter many more records. He may even become tenniss No. 1 moneymaker too -- only on Tonis terms, when the time is right.
It says that Nadal is completly disgusted and there is one big mess in Madrid. There are not enough courts to practice and yestarday Fyrstenberg had a practice session with Simon on the same court Nadal had a practice session before. They had a small chat and Nadal told Fyrstenberg that he hasn't played on such a bad court since he was 12. Nadal said that there are holes everywhere and the risk of the injury is huge. This is why Nadal finished the training completly pissed off after 30 minutes.
อยากจะแปลเรื่องนี้แต่ยังนึกไม่ออกว่าจะแปลไม่ให้ติดเรทยังไง เป็นเรื่อง Roland Garros หลงรักราฟา...
'En attente de vous' Waiting for You, Rafael, To Reclaim Me... I am Stade Roland Garros the venue, the arena of French Open. Since 1891, I've been witnessing the battles of many a tennis player. Though initially I was a grass court, I got my feisty red clay garb in 1912. Many gladiators have had their conquests on my bosom. Though I remember them all fondly, some are very special to me.
How can I forget Max Decugis who won me eight times in a long-forgotten era; or Bjorn Borg who won six times or Henry Cochet who held me four times...Also there are a lot of warriors who came only for the love of me & did not like other surfaces much, like Gustavo Keurten...
Yet, you Rafael, my spanish knight are very very special to me. The day you put your foot on me in the year of 2005, I knew I was in love & I would never let you lose here & that you will be my best & most beloved conqueror!
I saw you play like a mighty warrior, reaching each corner of me, in a battle no knight in any armour has won over you. You moved, you served, you jumped, you pumped your fists to the boom of 'Vamos' & made me love you more each passing second.
You went on to become the first male player to win the French Open on his first attempt since Mats Wilander in 1982, and yes have never lost here till date.
To see you play is a pleasure but do you know what is the zenith of my emotions? It's when you win a match & throw your arms around me, embrace me, making me feel like each match is the final & you are the tournament winner!
I still have the feel of you when you won me for the first time as a teenager of 19 & I haven't quiet got out of your arms from the last year.
Now that the May sun is shining bright I've dressed myself in the finest Red Robes, awaiting your return one more time. Waiting to be conquered by you, my Gladiator. Longing for the feel of you on my red body.
แต่ถึงแม้ราฟาจะอารมณ์ไม่ดี แต่พอซ้อมเสร็จออกมาแจกลายเซ็นให้เด็ก ๆ ราฟาน่ารักกับแฟน ๆ เสมอค่ะ เซ็นให้ทุกคนเลย
ซึ่งราฟาก็เชื่อค่ะว่าตัวเองล่องหนได้จริง ๆ ตอนเลี้ยงสังสรรค์ครอบครัว ทุก ๆ คนในบ้านถือแก้วราวกับว่าแก้วมันลอยเองได้ ตรงนี้ส้มไม่ค่อยเข้าใจอ่ะค่ะ แต่น่าจะประมาณว่า ทุกคนในบ้านหลอกราฟาว่า ล่องหนได้ ประมาณว่าแก้วลอยเอง ไม่ได้ถือ แล้วราฟาก็เชื่อว่าตัวเองล่องหนได้จริง ๆ ขำเด็กน้อยราฟาจริง ๆ ค่ะ
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แต่มุขนี้ผ่านค่ะ ฮาดี 
ได้ยินทีนึงนี่ อยากจะไปทำบุญอุทิศส่วนกุศลให้เลย....เผื่อจะรอดชีวิต 
สงสารเด็กน้อยตัวโตๆ ที่ไม่ค่อยจะมีใครรัก ทั้งๆที่เป็นเด็กดีน่ารักน่าชังขนาดนี้(เด็กตัวแสบล่ะไม่ว่า 
คนนั้นเค้าลูกเมียหลวง เดินไปไหนตากล้องตามเป็นพรวน เงี้ยแหละค่ะ แข่งอะไรก็แข่งได้ แต่แข่งบุญวาสนา ใครก็สู้แอนไม่ได้ 
เดี๋ยวมีต่อ
แปลได้ตรงตัวเป็นอย่างเดียว 
ยังกะพระเอกหนังฮอลลีวู้ด เห็นแล้วจะเป็นลม 
ส้มเคยแค่ฝันดีสุดคือได้คุยกับราฟา ถ้าส้มฝันแบบนี้เหมือนที่พี่รวัลย์ฝันถึงน้องเดล ส้มจะนอนทั้งวันเลยค่ะ ไม่ตื่นเลย ฮ่า ๆ แล้วแบบนี้ถ้าพี่รวัลย์เจอน้องเดลจริง ๆ จะยิ่งไม่เขินหรอคะ
...เอ่อ...หรือไม่ก็โยนทิ้งอาไว้แถวนั้น 
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ส้มไม่อยากให้ราฟาตัดผมสั้ันเลย
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