Ne znam jesu li računali Olimpijske igre, ali i bez njih Nadalina ima najveći postotak pobjeda u susretima s najboljima!



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Man from uncle starts to feel on top of the world again

Rafael Nadal is close to finishing the season on an unexpected high after some tough love, writes Neil Harman

He is not a figure. Rafael is a very good tennis player but he is no more than this. In life, there are 1,000 things you can do: Rafael is very good at one.” Toni Nadal’s uncompromising verdict is perhaps part of the reason why his nephew is two victories away from ending this year as the best male player there is —?quite probably his most incredible achievement of all.

Search for the nub of why Rafael Nadal has been at the top of his sport for many years and one can trace the origins of his success to his.

OSTATAK MOGU VIDJETI SAMO PRETPLATNICI, STOGA SAM GA PREVEO.

Duboke emocije osjećam prema nećaku. Ne volim riječ "ponos", ali moram reći da se posebno osjećam kada čujem s koliko se poštovanja govori o njegovim uspjesima. Često sam živčan za vrijeme Rafinih nastupa, ali s prošlošću se ne opterećujem. Kao mladomu tenisaču odmah sam mu poručio da nije moja krivnja kada gubi. Mora preuzeti odgovornost, osobito sada kada je dovoljno sazrio.

Inače, dobar je trener onaj koji zna pronaći prave riječi. Često slušam kolege koji previše filozofiraju, tako da se čini kao da je sve to više znanost nego sport. Nije tako. Ako je u momčadi Messi, pobjeđuješ. Ako su drugi igrači, gubiš. Tenis je za stabilne. Naime, možeš dobiti tri poena, potom izgubiti pet i na kraju ti ostaje nula.

Ne volim čitati tekstove o dopingu. Pogotovo one koje pišu ljudi svjesni da ne će odgovarati za izrečene optužbe. Ako netko piše takve stvari, to je samo njegov problem. U Španjolskoj kažemo da lopov misli da su svi ostali lopovi. Znam koliko je Rafa korektna osoba i zato takvi napisi nisu moj problem.


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/tennis/article3913173.ece

Nije trener da putuje, nego da savjetuje!

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LONDON — Stanislas Wawrinka was unhappy that the chair umpire didn’t intervene to stop Rafael Nadal from receiving coaching at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday.

Wawrinka voiced his displeasure after a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) loss to Nadal, who is coached by his uncle, Toni Nadal.

“It’s nothing personal against Rafa or against Toni,” Wawrinka said. “We all know, players and umpires, that Toni is always trying to help Rafa. That’s normal. That’s part of the game. But when it’s too much, it’s too much.

“Today I didn’t agree with the umpire that he didn’t tell him something or he didn’t give him a second warning just because it was Rafa. We all see it. I was there. Before every point, he was trying to coach him.”

The ATP Tour rulebook states that “players shall not receive coaching during a tournament match. Communications of any kind, audible or visible, between a player and a coach may be construed as coaching.” Players receive a warning for a first offense, a point penalty for a second offense and a game penalty for a third and each subsequent offense. The rule is rarely enforced, though.

Toni Nadal has acknowledged talking to his nephew during matches, a practice that has irked Roger Federer, drawn a fine at Wimbledon and sparked plenty of discussion in the media. Toni denies that he communicates tactics, as The New York Times reported in 2010:

Toni Nadal does not deny that he offers advice from the box. He says the rules against coaching from the box are antiquated and need to be changed. “I think all the sports make an evolution,” he said. “It’s not natural that you pay a coach and this coach travels to Australia and to New York to watch his player and he can’t say nothing.”

He said he was trying to curb his tongue — against his instincts — lest he become a distraction to Nadal.

“I say not too much,” he said with a smile. “Always I say things like ‘Come on’ or ‘Move your legs.’ I am not saying tactics. I don’t know how to win a match.”

Andre Agassi, a former No.1 and fellow American who played and lost to both Federer and Nadal, was on the same conference call with Courier last week.

“I do think, without Rafa winning one more major, you could make the argument that he’s the best of all time,” said Agassi, who, like Nadal and Federer, belongs to the group of just seven men who have won all four Grand Slam singles titles during their careers.

Nadal has won a record eight French Opens on clay, a surface more widely used by tennis players — both professional and recreational — than the grass that has been so friendly to Federer. Nadal also has two important tennis box tops that the 32-year-old Federer is now unlikely to acquire: an Olympic gold medal in singles and a Davis Cup title.

He holds a 21-10 record over Federer, the archrival who has gradually become something closer to cannon fodder on outdoor hard courts as well as clay. But then Nadal holds a winning record over every other Grand Slam singles champion who has crossed his path as a professional, except the former French Open winner Gastón Gaudio, with whom he split six matches before Gaudio retired.

Nadal, back at No.1 after a phenomenal comeback from knee problems, also holds a winning record over every member of the current top 30: from Novak Djokovic at No.2 to Dmitry Tursunov at No.30.

“We’ve spoken for many years about the bad matchup Nadal is for Federer, but he’s a bad matchup for everybody now,” Cahill said. “It wasn’t that way early in his career, and that’s where Nadal has been able to evolve his game and solve a lot of problems he had early in his career with certain types of players. He’s become a better all-around player. We’ve seen that with him tinkering with his serve, with him moving to the net more efficiently, with creating a stronger backhand, to having a little more confidence in the big situations, to solving the Djokovic problem he had a couple years ago, to being prepared to take that forehand a little quicker down the line with more authority earlier in the point.

Nadal also has the best career winning percentage in tour history at 84 percent to Federer’s 81. Nadal also has the edge in Grand Slam winning percentage over Federer at 88 to 86 and in Masters 1000 winning percentage (84 to 77) as well as a better strike rate against top 10 opponents (69 to 65).


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/sports/tennis/federer-or-nadal.html?pagewanted=1&bicmp=AD&_r=0&bicmet=1385787600000&bicmst=13&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id

Jao, si bacil majmuna u nesvijest koji put? Nastavimo li u komičnom tonu upravo smo saznali kako ćeš na skorašnjem referendumu zaokružiti protiv.

Inače, nevjerojatno si naporan čovjek, ohladi malo s kampanjom.

Nadal, premiado por partida doble

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2013/Moet-ATP-Awards/2013-ATP-Awards-Nadal.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zot0rEOCGM

To je reporter!

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Juce me odusevio svajcarski tv komentator. Kaze, ne znam kako Federera neko moze da proglasi najboljim u istoriji kada ce verovatno biti treci u svojoj eri, iza Nadala i Djokovica. Videcemo kad svi zavrse karijere ali gotovo je sigurno da ce Federer imati negativan skor protiv obojice, tako da je pomalo neprijatno proglasavati ga najboljim ikad kada je u "svom" vremenu bio redovna Rafina musterija. Ne treba zaboraviti ni zlato na OI, Devis cup i sve osvojene Masterse gde je Nadal vec prestigao Rogera a samo je pitanje trenutka kada ce ga i Djokovic prestici.
Posle ove izjave sam bio u neverici, svajcarski komentator koji svim srcem navija za Federera, realno sumira utiske i rezignirano konstatuje da je 22:10 za Nadala. Ovo sam samo naveo zato sto i sami Svajcarci realnije gledaju na stvari od zaslepljenih Federerovih fanova.


Sto se tice danasnjeg meca, Novak je u velikoj prednosti samo mora to da iskoristi i na terenu. Nadam se najboljem.
(Sava, 11. novembar 2013 16:52)

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