ส้มภาษณ์ราฟาจาก rn.com ค่ะ "It's difficult conditions for me. My results here in this tournament say that. My best result was last year, semi-finals. It's always difficult for me to play a good tournament here," said Rafa at the press conference.
"I don't know if I played very well but I was there all the time," he continued. "I was fighting for every point, and that's the important thing".
"So everything is positive. And the most positive thing is that tomorrow I am going to be another time on the court."
What a good report Both thumbs up! I didn't get a chance to see the match because I was busy sleeping. Anyway I am looking forward to talk to you tonight. May be you can fill me in about the detail of the match.
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Tio Toni (on the telephone to said TVE commentator before Rafa's match yesterday) was asked about the tapes seen on Rafa's wrists and abdomen in practice and said they were "the kind of things that happen when you come back after not playing for a while" and that the twinge in his abs was one of the reasons he didn't play doubles.
Nadal Admits Knee Still a Problem Posted Aug 19, 2009 11:30PM By Greg Couch (RSS feed)
MASON, Ohio -- Always perfect is impossible.
That's what Rafael Nadal said Wednesday after beating Andreas Seppi 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-3) in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters tournament.
It's what he said when he admitted that his knees are still hurting.
First questions in interviews are always the same now for Nadal, who is just coming back from knee tendinitis. The knees?
"Yeah," he said, giving his pat answer. "The knee was good." No, it was not. Nadal looked awful on the court, great timing, great fitness, great strategy. But he couldn't move. Not the way Rafael Nadal is suppose to move.
So I asked: When you say the knees are good, are you saying they don't hurt at all?
Nadal gave the longest pause for a question he didn't want to answer. And then he finally said it, that the knees still hurt.
"Always perfect is impossible, no?" he said. "But when I say it's good, I can play with no problem, no?"
No. He has problems. And to watch him up close was to get a sad, almost sick feeling. And know that when he talked, he was quiet and down. He knows he just isn't the same. Does he wonder if he ever will be? I do.
He has been back for only about a week now, and it's too early to draw final conclusions. But what Nadal gave before the injury was something tennis had never seen before, someone leaving blood on the court. Blood and guts.
Also, knee tendons, I guess.
He was doing something special, throwing everything he had not only into every match, set or game, but also into every swing. He was storming the court. Is that lost now? Or is it just temporary?
He is not believing in his body. You could see that during the match. He ran fast, tried hard, fought. But he seemed unwilling to plant and change directions, to slap his foot down on that final step before hitting. And while hard courts have never been his surface, he played strategically well, but couldn't get into position to attack the way he wanted to.
"When I have the very good results on hard courts, I played really aggressive," he said. "I played big shots with the forehand and big shots with the backhand (by) playing inside the court."
By attacking, and not staying way back behind the baseline.
"But you can play inside the court when you have a good feeling. If you don't have a good feeling, it's difficult to go inside the court, no?"
Nadal has lost not only his No. 1 ranking back to Roger Federer, but also the mental edge he had over his rival. For two great special athletes who get along well, their fans sure have a nasty rivalry going. Federer fans will tell you that the reason Nadal reached No. 1 in the first place was that their hero had mono.
Apparently, they think mono lasts for nearly a year.
The truth is that Nadal passed Federer, became the better player. His style threw Federer off his game, and out of his mind. Always perfect is impossible? Nadal was there for nearly a year, especially when he beat Federer in that Wimbledon final in 2008.
Federer was always going to fight back, though. And now Nadal has to.
But can he? He seems to be trying to get back to his old workout schedule. And it's his style of play that puts so much pressure on his body, with every shot, every minute of practice all out. Twenty-three years old and he already has bad knees. That's not an automatic career-ender. But he has to make changes.
He did hit some serves up to 122 mph Wednesday on big points. And that was a great sign because he needs some cheapies, some quick points. He also needs to flatten out some shots, go for winners.
And he needs to play fewer tournaments.
"It's very difficult to have a lot of breaks when the third week of January you have to play a Grand Slam (the Australian Open)," he said. "It's very difficult to have a lot of breaks when after three weeks, you have two Masters Series in a row, and after, you have three Master Series in four weeks.
"So what break can I do? Give me the week. ... The ATP can change the schedule. I can't change the schedule."
Here's the week, Rafa: Until your knees are 100 percent, if they can be again, blow off the Australian Open entirely. When the year is over, take a month or more off. You will be saving all that time from hard-court practice. Then, pick up the clay and grass seasons.
But if he's not going to change his tournament schedule or his practice schedule, and only make small changes in his serve, well, let's just say he can't expect to do all the same things and get different results.
Moping. Nadal was actually moping on the court at times Wednesday.
Seppi praised him but then acknowledged that Nadal wasn't moving well: "Maybe a little bit. You can see maybe with the knee."
Do you think you moved well today, Rafa?
"I can move better," he said.
Nadal said that beating Seppi, ranked No. 45, is a good starting point, and that the courts are super fast here, which is not good for a guy still trying to find his timing.
His goals, he said, are just to get better every day. And then when he got up from his chair, he let out a groan.
Hey, you're not supposed to be doing that until you're my age, I said.
Rafa Nadal and Paul-Henri Mathieu will battle this evening (after 7:00pm, local time) at the Cincinnati Masters Series Tournament for a place in the quaterfinals.
Mathieu, (who knocked out the big-serving Croat, Ivo Karlovic in the previous round) is currently ranked 31st in the world and has never been able to beat Rafa in their 8 past meetings, including 6-0 on hard courts.
Despite this astonishing advantage, tonights Center Court match will be quite different from previous encounters. First of all, Rafa thinks he still has to improve a little bit more, because one week is not enough to be a 100 percent."
"I need a little more time to adapt the speed of the ball and to get confidence. Winning matches like [yesterday] is the only way to take this confidence, no? So that's it. To be confidence and playing inside the court, I need to be in the back on the court running before," he concluded.
ORDER OF PLAY:
Start at 12:00 noon
Roger Federer vs David Ferrer
Andy Murray vs Radek Stepanek
Lleyton Hewitt vs Sam Querrey
Not before 7:00pm
Paul-Henri Mathieu vs Rafael Nadal
Vamos Rafa!
First of all, Rafa thinks he still has to improve a little bit more, because one week is not enough to be a 100 percent.""I need a little more time to adapt the speed of the ball and to get confidence. Winning matches like [yesterday] is the only way to take this confidence, no? So that's it. To be confidence and playing inside the court, I need to be in the back on the court running before,"
Q. First game of the match you broke after Seppi hit a lob and you had to sprint. Is the knee okay? RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, the knee was good.
Q. I noticed you weren't wearing a brace like you normally do. RAFAEL NADAL: I didn't have the band, the tape, for a long time, no? In Monte-Carlo I didn't play with tape, but I didn't play with tape because the problem is not in that position of the knee, no? The problem is in the top of the knee.
Q. Do you feel that you're getting better with each match at the moment? Do you feel better on the court? RAFAEL NADAL: Here the ball is fast and the ball is not getting bit topspin, so it's tough. It's difficult conditions for me, no? My results here in this tournament say that. It's not easy tournament for me. My best result was last year semifinals. Always difficult for me to play a good tournament here. But, you know, I don't know if I play very well, but I was there all the time, no? I was fighting every point, and that's the important thing, no? I don't know if it was a very good match for me, but it was very important, because these matches help me a lot to get my best performance and to get physical training, too. So everything is positive. And, you know, the most positive thing I gonna be tomorrow another time on the court. That's important for continuing improve.
Q. I would like you to talk about your serve today. It worked well and you saved nine breakpoints from ten in the match. You had eight aces. Is that what you've been working on lately? RAFAEL NADAL: The true is I didn't work a lot with the serve these days, no, because I had the problem in the abdominals. So it was all inspiration. (Laughter.) No, no, sure, the serve is very important part of the game. If you are serving well, you can play the rest of the match with more calm, no? So it's important. Today it was important. In important moments I had good serves. I had three aces in breakpoints, so that's ver good news and very happy for that. I have to improve always my serve, but I have to continuing serving like this if I want to have chances to win tomorrow.
Q. When you say the knees are good, are you saying they don't hurt at all? RAFAEL NADAL: Always perfect is impossible, no? But when I say it's good, I can play with no problem, no?
Q. Did this match tell you things about your physical condition, the state of your game, that the last two days of practice did not? RAFAEL NADAL: You know, the match is always different than practice, so I played better than I practice. But I must play better tomorrow. That's the true.
Q. The match was a very close one that turned on just a few points in both sets. Did he just play extremely well, or is that just the proof of how competitive the game is becoming? RAFAEL NADAL: In this level there's no easy matches. All the matches are in a few points. We are playing the top 50 players of the world here. You can't win an easy match, especially in this fast court, no? So that's normal. Sure, probably I am not playing, that's true, my best tennis. But if I play my best tennis, the match never gonna be easy against Seppi, too.
Q. Given the injury layoff, what goals do you have for the end of the year? Do you have a year-end ranking goal that you want to hit? RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, the goal right now is improve every day. That's the goal, no? In one week and a half we have important tournament. You know, we have US Open, so maybe that's the -- the first goal is try and improve my tennis here a little bit more, and the second goal is try to be as better as possible in the US Open.
Q. When you say your goal is to get better, are you talking about the pain or your timing? In what way do you need to get better? RAFAEL NADAL: When I talking about the goals, right now I'm talking about the tennis, not the knees and not that, because I hope to be okay.
Q. To be successful on hardcourt, do you need to play a more aggressive style of tennis? Do the tactics need to be the most aggressive? RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, well, that's true. When I have the very good results on hardcourt I played really aggressive. I played big shots with the forehand and big shots with the backhand and playing inside the court. But you can play inside the court when you have a good feeling. If you don't have a good feeling, it's difficult to go inside the court, no?
Q. I'm curious about what you're saying. Do you have to be entirely 100% confident in your movement and your strokes in order to play aggressive? RAFAEL NADAL: I think I am okay in my movements. Sure, I have to improve a little bit more, because that's -- in one week is not enough to be a 100%. But I feel okay in my move. But after feeling okay of my move, I need a little more time to adapt the speed of the ball and to get confidence. Winning matches like today is the only way to take this confidence, no? So that's it. To be confidence and playing inside the court, I need to be in the back on the court running before.
Q. Do you think you moved well today? RAFAEL NADAL: I can move better. I think I moved better than what I touch the ball.
Q. Do you think there's a favorite for the US Open right now, or a group of favorites? How many guys do you think have a chance of winning the Open? RAFAEL NADAL: If I am?
Q. You or anyone. Is there a specific favorite right now, would you say? RAFAEL NADAL: Well, favorites, when one player won the last five years he's the favorite, no? But, yeah, he's favorite. But a lot of players are coming well, no? Roddick is playing really well. Murray is doing really well. Djokovic always have his chances. He's a good player. And I hope myself. Del Potro, too.
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