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i was so heartbroken from that Miami final that i have yet to even see the match. I was out on the road when the match was being played. thank goodness I was not home otherwise I would have watched it on the tele.

we have it at our global tennis video center by the way. i don't think i am going to watch it.


i did not care for his presser either. the sooner i can forget Miami forever the sooner the better. I know he was disappointed so I did not want to see him that way. Australian Open final was bad enough for people like me.

i will be honest with you: the back injury has set him back which has derailed his fitness. he was not able to practice as well as he would like to either.

for example he was not able to serve for 10 days after Rio.

he said it the other day in some article that i read: he said he has to work harder and get in better shape. that explains it all.

we will get nole at RG and we will take him down at flushing meadows if we run into him there. i am pretty confident of that.

now it would not hurt to take him down a few times before that either. he will be in monte carlo, Madrid, and rome. Rafa will be waiting for him there.

nole will always have the edge on the hard courts in the best of 3 sets formats. he has won at least 8 of them with scores like 6-2, 6-3/ 6-3, 6-2/ 6-3, 6-3 and the like.

we don't care. we will take all the clay events and the slams going forward. i do believe that Rafa will be too worn out for Wimbledon to be able to make a deep run there but lets hope for the best anyway.

Rafa has to make it count at RG and at Flushing Meadows and that is all that matters now. rest will take care of itself.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/powerful-earthquake-hits-off-coast-of-chile/


Chile is quite prone to earthquakes. thank goodness this was not as bad as the one in 2010.

the one in 1960 was also a tremendous tragedy for Chile.

I only saw some highlights of that 2009 RG final. i can assure you that i have no desire of watching that final.

we have it here at our global tennis video center.


i did see the 2010 RG final live and then a couple of more times after that. that set the record straight.

its really a great tragedy that the poor fellow has been struck down with so many injuries.

i hear ya.


i made a mistake. i forget so quickly. i am realizing now that the 2009 Rafa vs Soderling match at RG was not the final. of course i knew that but i tend to lose sight of it at times.


anyway highlights of that match told me all i needed to know: Rafa was having trouble pushing off his leg. his movement was compromised and his ground game was thrown off. on the other side of the ledger, soderling played a match of his life but then again how can you not pounce on short balls that were bouncing around his service lines or inside the service boxes.


Rafa is 8-0 at RG finals.


anyway i did not watch the 2009 RG final either. i had to be somewhere so i was not home to watch it.

Hi Maria!, gee, your post is from almost a year ago.  Will you believe me I hadn't seen it?.

It was 5 years from the earthquake yesterday.

Thank you very much for your good wishes

That AO final was one of the toughest moments of his career for sure, and for us as fans too.  Injuries have taken so much from his career.  But he's strong and we can trust he will do his best every time to come back.  And his good is pretty good.

How great was Rafa today btw?.  I'm feeling in a very good mood