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nadal is his own man. he believes in doing things his way.


if I can narrow this down to just one thing, I would say its the drop in fitness.


he has let his fitness take a hit this year. seems like he decided to take a bit of mental and physical vacation since the last u.s. open. and he has never really recovered from that.


and then the back injury at the worst possible time hit.

he is just not as fast and as strong as he used to be. for that reason they are able to get to his shots and he is not able to get to their shots.

by giving them 1/2 the court and by playing mostly forehands, the element of surprise does not exist at all.


you can do only 2 things with that forehand hit from his backhand corner: you can go inside out or you can go down the line. his positioning gives it away. they know where he is going most of the time.


not much time left. if anybody can fix some of this, he can. all he has to do is bag rome and RG and a lot of these issues will go away temporarily anyway.

Quote from: thetruth on May 14, 2014, 04:55:11 am

Quote from: Clay Death on May 12, 2014, 01:44:52 pm

Rafa is in rome already.


hopefully he will hit the practice courts hard today.

lets go Rafa. vamossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.


make it happen in rome.

Any news on his practice sessions? I've been too busy to keep up.

well I heard he was not able to practice the other day because of rain. there are indoor clay courts everywhere in rome and france right next door.

he could have jumped on a plane for a 45 minute flight to an indoor clay court. you know he has all the money in the world now.


and I saw one of his practice sessions where he was just lazily hitting serves against carlos berlocq. uncle tony did not look too happy but he was standing around feeding him balls to serve.


why not practice your serve in your own damn time. he is still not willing to work on the 3 things that ail him the most:


1. fitness
2. backhand
3. return of serve


I am not happy with him obviously. no man in tennis history will ever have the chance Rafa has.

and that is go after the slam record. he is just not taking it seriously enough.

his fans and his skyrocketing popularity is not helping. it is taking up a lot of his time.

and the second his fans let up, his sponsors take over. they want his time and his attention also.

I am not even sure how he is able to practice at all. he can hardly get to the practice courts and he can hardly leave them.

that has to drain his energies to some extent also. he is humble so he gives them his time.

you mentioned security. I am forever worried about his safety. there are too many sickos out there who don't want him to do well.