Rafael Nadal #4: Weer Master in Montreal

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Op zondag 5 juni 2011 19:31 schreef jojomen4 het volgende:
Dank heren.

Nummer 10 GS titel is binnen! Nogmaals Fed verslagen om te laten zien wie de beste is.

VAMOS! Op naar Wimbledon!

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He says he took his tenth Grand Slam title because it brings together the essential mixture of obstinacy and self-sacrifice. The formula seems simple, but with 25 years, very few can implement to overcome the crisis of confidence as he went through in Paris

Night long ago fell in London, but Rafael Nadal (Manacor, Mallorca, 25 years) has not yet gone out to dinner. Before his debut in the tournament at Queen's winner on Sunday for the sixth time at Roland Garros, closes its Tuesday sitting in an overstuffed sofa for review with the country several angles of his biography: from Seve Ballesteros to The boy in the striped pajamas, through values that distinguish the champions.

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"I always say I do not mind the story, but of course I care" "

With 10 Grand Slam titles, are you among the great? Yes, a great satisfaction "

"You have to be stubborn, thinking that things will work out but not even a tenth"

"In Paris I always start bad, but required me to play well"

"If you play the most, Federer is unstoppable. But parties do not last seven games"

"I play more nervous when I have more room for error in the finals"

Question. You appear on a wooden bench, tired and in the locker room at Roland Garros. It is a photograph of the moments immediately following his victory in the final over Roger Federer. What's going through your head then?

Response. I am very pleased with myself. Between my enthusiasm and support of my team has achieved something that 10 days ago seemed almost impossible. In this image ... There would be, but what I am is crying in the locker room. I arrive, I want to sit y. .. is an exciting time because he knew he had won something that days before seemed so complicated. He won with a determination to change the situation in addition to the daily work of many months and years. I am pleased to have been able to take the initial failure, or more than failure, the disaster of how he was playing for from there go a little better every day.

P. After that photo, comes to center court and becomes one with the basketball player Pau Gasol. What values bind to two winners of all like you?

R. All the winners have always one thing in common that is basic. There is humility and all those things that are very good and very beautiful. Best if you have it, as does he, but there are many people who have gained a lot, a lot, and it is arrogant. What makes you want to win and winning is everything you want to make plays to win. Want to work when you do not fancy. Knowing the tense stand you in thinking that will change. Being stubborn enough to think that things will not go well when the first or the tenth. The mind is prepared to assume in order to overcome difficulties. Undoubtedly, all have earned it.

P. Did you recognize that in Severiano Ballesteros? When he died, you won a game and signed "Seve" in a room after the victory. There were 24 years of age difference between you and, yet connected.

R. I did not live his great age, but I met him. I am a great lover of golf. I've watched all your videos. What made Seve has the added difficulty of being a pioneer in Spain and created a profile, style, worldwide. Its greatest virtue, no doubt, I wanted to do and that he was prepared to work whatever it takes to get there. If you think you can get there, no matter if you do with an hour of training or 10 million hours. The important thing is to come. That was Seve. I played 18 holes with him and kept in touch. It was an excellent person.

P. "He was training on grass, for that way of thinking, 24 hours after winning the biggest tournament of the earth?

R. That gives me experience. The first year I won Roland Garros in 2005, I was not prepared to do [lost in the first round of Halle]. It also gives me the desire to always improve on all surfaces; want to be good everywhere, something I was clear. In 2005 I failed, I passed the happiness, the voltage dip, which for me was something great to win my first major. Once I got the second Roland Garros ... Pam, her head began to think about the following [in the grass].

P. So now is machining the journey of Roland Garros at Queen's [was eliminated Friday in the quarterfinals, by Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga].

R. Am I tired? Yes I like to be here? No. I feel like being at home. I've been since the Davis Cup in Belgium [March] without spending a week at home. I think this is a sacrifice that can help me do better at Wimbledon then [since 20 June]. It may not help me. What is certain is that I'll feel more at ease with myself having done everything right to get well at Wimbledon. Having that peace with yourself can allow you to play better at a given time.

P. "Winning in Paris will remove a weight off?

R. Win Roland Garros, the 10 titles at Grand Slam took [two of Wimbledon, one of the Australia Open and one from the U.S., apart from the six Paris], is a step forward in my career and in confidence to play the rest of the year with more tranquility. Is it taking off a backpack on? Perhaps, yes. I am not bound to win, but it is a very great personal satisfaction for being a top year, one year winning a major tournament at least. This year when I played being healthy, I made four finals and three titles. Then there's the story. I always say I do not mind, but of course I care. What happens is that I have no time to explain it because the next day I'm playing tournaments. Of course I care about history. Of course I mind having the same titles at Roland Garros Borg [Björn, Swedish]. Of course I care about being in those over the Grand Slam. Of course I care. I love the sport and what makes sports great is the story. Be humble, but we should not be above nonsense. With 10 titles, are you among the greats? Yes. It's a great personal satisfaction.

P. In Paris he began playing badly and ended well.

R. It has happened many times. In all Roland Garros I started playing badly. None entered playing well. This, especially, was playing with a tad more nervous than before. At that had not lost four finals in one year [all against Serbian Novak Djokovic]. That's hard, but we must also see that I was at all. I was not to win the final four, but to accept defeat well enough to return to fight from the first day for the next tournament. At Roland Garros, seeing that he had been unable to win any of those four finals, I was insecure when dealing with the tournament. Hence the problem. Once past the first week, I saw that and I had no other to play well ... And that's when I started to play well. The requirement led me to play well.

P. "I was going over," summed up Carlos Moya the start of Federer. How do you handle this situation, the number one, is supposed to be outdone when it's the best?

R. I understand the question but the answer is different. When I play, I do not think I'm number one, but I'm in the final against Federer at Roland Garros and I know that when played at its highest level, is virtually unstoppable. However, the parties do not last even five or seven games. I know that playing at the highest level for three hours is very complicated. If successful, you shake hands and go to home because it is bright and very hard to beat. I also know that if I grab the level, if I catch the rhythm, I will make it hard to play so well. If I start to play long, high, to make the points last longer, he can begin to make mistakes. My goal is to reach at least the situation. I do not feel humiliated or passed over. I feel I have come into play. At that thought, to wait for the right moment to catch a little air. The superiority must be maintained all the time. I remain stable all the time. When he plays well, wins, and when not playing so well, lost. Finally, in the mean is where you win.

P. Has yielded only 19% of break points in the six finals he has played in Paris. How do you succeed?
R. Somehow, you have to win the final. The parties of this size and demand are played to the limit. The winners who saves more situations. The important thing is to have trust, clear idea of what you do. The anxiety and nerves do not pass to do what you do not want to do. It is fortunate that so far, I've always played more nervous the first game, in which perhaps there is more room for error, that the finals, where there are fewer.

P. Why do you recommend reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

R. Because I found it very hard, but, in hardness, has a message. When you do it to others, not so bad, when you do you, is very serious. They [the Nazis] killed left and right, but when it happens in your own home ... Sobering. Whenever there is a double vision of life, in the same situation. Interesting.

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Op zondag 12 juni 2011 15:43 schreef Pino112 het volgende:
TL;DR.
Doe es in Nederlands samenvatten.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 20:37 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
Einde tijdperk Nadal denk ik. De jaren gaan tellen. 7 jaar toptennis alweer. Roland Garros zie ik hem nog wel pakken maar de rest wordt moeilijker en moeilijker. Hij is trager dan ooit en zijn backhand is een liability in deze vorm. Het is al knap dat hij het zo lang heeft volgehouden (met dank aan zijn oom), genoeg 18-jarige tennissterretjes die vroeg pieken en daarna ineenstorten.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 20:50 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
Zijn backhand is beter geworden? Vreemd, hij komt zwakker op mij over.

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Wat zorgen baart is zijn verminderde snelheid, een belangrijk onderdeel van zijn spelletje.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 20:56 schreef TheGeneral het volgende:
Hoewel ik zijn backhand ook wat minder vind, hij slicet veel meer dan normaal, en niet alleen op gras, is Nadal natuurlijk verre van over. Hij zal sowieso nog slams pakken en minimaal tot de halve finales komen op vrijwel elke Grand Slam.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 20:53 schreef Federer-fan het volgende:

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Sinds wanneer dan? Hij kan er aanvallender mee splen. Maar waarop baseer je het, op een bepaalde periode of op was je vandaag hebt gezien?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 20:58 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:

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Dus is zijn tijdperk over. Het gaat niet om leeftijd he? Het gaat om de jaren die je mee speelt... Edberg was na zijn 26ste finished, idem dito voor McEnroe.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:00 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:

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Zijn backhand vond ik in bijv. 2008 gevaarlijker. Hij speelde er vaker mee langs de lijn bijvoorbeeld. Federer heeft zijn backhand nooit zo zwak doen lijken zoals Djokovic al een half jaar doet.

Vond de Nadal van 2010 ondanks zijn drie GS ook al een stuk minder.... (ja klinkt gek met zoveel succes).

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:20 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
Wat is er uitzonderlijk aan Djokovic? Excuse me maar de enige waarbij is dat ooit zelf live heb gezien was de Federer van eind 2004 tot begin 2006. Dat was seek en destroy.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:12 schreef TheGeneral het volgende:

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Hoezo? Als je minimaal de halve finale haalt kun je ook de finale halen en dus het toernooi winnen..

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:43 schreef Federer-fan het volgende:

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Is dat zo? Ik vind het nog niet enorm veel zeggen als je de halve finale haalt, want daar komen ze de andere toppers tegen en dan komt het er juist op aan. Ik zie Federer eerder nog tien halve finales op GS'en halen dan nog twee GS'en winnen. Hoe zie jij dat?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:46 schreef TheGeneral het volgende:

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Federer?

We hebben het over Nadal.... Hij zegt dat Nadal over is. Ik zeg dat hij sowieso nog de halve finales gaat halen, want maar een enkeling kan hem voor die ronde stoppen. En als je de halve finale haalt, kun je ook finales halen.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:51 schreef Morthill het volgende:

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Tsja, Murray kan ook finales halen, maar dat het hem vrijwel nooit lukt op slams spreekt boekdelen.

Tijdperk Nadal is nog lang niet over, Djokovic is gewoon momenteel uitzonderlijk sterk en zijn angstgegner, maar hem na een half jaar afschrijven is wat onzinnig. Hij speelde Murray nog volledig van de baan.

We zullen het zien als Djokovic zijn momentum begint af te nemen. Nadal speelde nu gewoon niet zijn beste finale ooit en niet zijn beste seizoen ooit, maar daarmee is zijn tijdperk nog niet voorbij.

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:54 schreef TheGeneral het volgende:

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Je begrijpt dat ik aangeef dat ik Nadal nog Grand Slams zie winnen?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 21:55 schreef Morthill het volgende:

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Ja begrijp je dat ik zeg dat louter omdat hij halve finales kan halen hij niet per se slams kan winnen?

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Op zondag 3 juli 2011 22:01 schreef TheGeneral het volgende:

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Ja dat snap ik, maar voorlopig staat hij de laatste tijd in de finales en er is geen reden waarom dat ineens zou stoppen. Dus kan hij ook gewoon nog Slams winnen.