First thing you see on ATPTennis.com? This:
Yep, today’s the day, the first time in 237 weeks someone besides Roger Federer has held the ATP number one ranking. Inside the official ATP website: A handful of stories on the move, a video tribute, a video cast about the change, a number of ads for Rafa, etc.
Too [...]
Mike told you about Rafael Nadal’s ascent to number one in the ATP Tour rankings. Had he won the Masters Series Cincinnati tournament, it would’ve happened Monday.
And then came third-ranked Novak Djokovic, delaying the anointment two weeks with his win in Saturday’s semifinals of the Masters Series Cincinnati. That’s where our journey begins.
If everything breaks [...]
Confidence is the key. We’ve heard it time and time again. Rafael Nadal has it. Roger Federer… used to have it. After falling to Ivo Karlovic, the closest thing the ATP Tour has to a gimmick now that Fabrice Santoro is calling it quits, Federer seems to be in a perpetual state of free falling. [...]
You’re fucked.
Seen at the Masters Series Cincinnati ATP event. Florent Serra, well, you really had no prayer. And while he won in 45 minutes, Rafa still had plenty of time to tug on his ass.
Imagine if international tours like the ATP or PGA, sports with no collective bargaining agreements, had no ability to shape their own yearly calender, had serious detriments to signing major commercial interests, basically were beholden to the individual events?
A lawsuit in a Delaware court right now, one some lawyers think could be landmark, might make [...]
Top Spin 3 came out about a month ago, and I know this isn’t timely; however, Rafael Nadal is only in the PlayStation 3 version of the game. This is absurd. I don’t see where PlayStation, 2K Sports, or Nadal get off doing this. Nadal is said to be a PS3 “exclusive”. Am I going [...]
There should be a point when enough is enough. Apparently we haven’t reached that yet with Spanish star Rafael Nadal.
So the interwebs tell me he’s got his own asteroid. In 2003, the Astronomical Observatory of Majorca (Spain, Rafa’s home) discovered the lovely asteroid numbered 128036, and, as they are allowed (finders keepers. Duh) they [...]
We’ll give Rafael Nadal credit: Not only does he do a fantastic Bob the Builder impression (and really, could you see Federer pulling off the hard hat look?), but he’s worked damn hard at perfecting his English, to the point where he’s pretty darn fluent. And he’s writing a blog for Wimbledon. Pretty heady stuff.
But [...]
We enjoy these silly blogs athletes write. Some of them are entertaining, some completely vapid, most give us no insight into the player.
That is, until the Rafael Nadal blog for The London Times! We like the Q&A section best, like this question from Fiona Lamb of Canada:
“I know you love your Mum’s cooking – what [...]
