Stale news!

When did he ever bring breaking news?

I hope Rafa will be back soon to put the gloss that tennis is seriously lacking in his absence.

#GetWellSoonRafa



Conspirator, look what you've started.

^^^

#Humble

I just hope Rafa's knees don't end up like Muhammed Ali's brain -- scrambled and disoriented. I'm sure with all the money he has accumulated over the years a wheelchair won't cost too much.

Do make hay while the sun is shining Fedfans, because your tormentor will be back soon.........

Vamos Rafa!!

^^^Rafa's recent knee injury is not career threatening. He needs time to let it heal naturally, if he deosnt want to go the surgery route, and that's why he's taking a longer break now. At the same time, he's allowing his tendinitis problem to recover with this rest. According to him, the conditions of his tendons have improved these past two years after his PRP treatments.

In fact this is a much needed rest for Rafa and should be viewed as having a positive effect on his long term career. I don't understand all these negative talking about Rafa and his knees. I suppose these people don't follow Rafa's news from his website, facebook etc. When he's back to the tours, look for him to be even more scarily good than before, after he dusts off the initial rust.

@aegis , 9/1/12 6:10 PM

That's so offensive.

^^^nadline, just treat it as ignorance or in fact wishful thinking by aegis. From that comment, you can see what kind of person aegis is!

Nadal mantiene la duda
http://www.lne.es/deportes/2012/08/31/n ... 91526.html

This article today in the local Asturian press says the doubts about whether Nadal will play in the Davis Cup semis in Gijón (14-16 Sept) have caused the sale of tickets for the event, which got off to a spectacular start, to slow down considerably, with some 20% still left to sell with just two weeks to go.

those who dont know how to give respect are talking about someone being offensive !! :o

^^^I think aegis' comment is not offensive, but rather mean spirited. I've never seen any comments from Rafa fans being this mean spirited.

^^^

you mean you never read the comments like the nadtards of jean,Phoenix & evaporated raindrops etc...

don't try to be saint ...nadtards and their delusion!!

^^^ Theirs were definitely not as mean spirited. They've never said anything about Fed being crippled, or being badly injured because of his back, for example. Don't try to justify mean spiritedness, or else you'll fall into that same category.

KMA well said.. although i hav neva heard anything offensive from luckystar or may be i might hav missed but i hav read worse than agies said.take holdserve/blindeye for example !!!

Where is raindrops really..haha evaporated !!! LOL

^^^How worse?? They've never wished for Fed to be injured or crippled for example, unlike aegis, who is downright despicable. Don't be as despicable as aegis, I hope you can be better than that.

I dnt hav to be anything.. I hardly speak anything against Rafa him winning or loosing unless Fed has been dragged unnecessarily(which always happens) ..and they alway offend him by calling him names.. i dnt wanna repeat but an offence is an offence !!!may be agies just stepped ahead with the wheel chair thing .. I would not want tht for Rafa anyways !!!

Can anyone tell me If Fed is gonna play after Serena's match ??

^^^ Fed vs Verdasco now on at Arthur Ashe.

Come back soon Rafa, Fedfans are are pining for you.............

Until Rafa's return, here is something for his haters to be getting on with:

"Rafael Nadal, it turns out, is a photographer favorite... Because if cool and calm win matches, muscle-flexing fist pumps and emotion make good pictures.
Not everyone is photogenic ? LeBron is not Jordan, Federer is not Nadal."

Rafa Nadal has been named "The Most Charismatic Athlete" for 2012 at the Telemundo's Premios Tu Mundo Awards!

Fedfans are not interested in tennis they are only interesting in bashing Rafa. Fed is on court right now, but his fans don't even seem to realise that, they are too busy talking about Rafa. If Rafa was playing, everyone, including his haters, would be glued to the TV because he is so irresistible.

Match Preview for 'Federer faces Verdasco in third round' - Number of comments (0).

Nadal is not even playing and his thread is busy.

aegis, 9/1/12 6:10 PM,

I am going to save this one. So when Fed fans try to trot out that old argument about how Rafa fans hate on Fed, this is the one I will bring up.

I have seen a lot of nasty, mean, ugly things said about Rafa by Fed fans. But this is the absolute worst!

They say what goes around comes around. To even talk about Rafa in a wheelchair, much less joke about it is just beyond any words.

nadline, 9/1/12 9:57 PM,

Great point! Good job in pointing out where the Fed fans are right now. And who they are talking about! :)

Just giving Rafa fans some of their own medicine, as 90% of insults directed at Fed are of the worst nature and "mean spirited".

This is the interwebs, it's a glorious place.

Aside from anything, making fun of Mohamed Ali who is nothing to do with this thread or tennis and who is sadly a very sick man is disgusting.

Why not? Ali gave it his all to become a legend in his sport. It surely looks like Rafa is doing the same, and more! True sports ambassadors. Once in a generation do we see athletes of this calibre.

aegis, words fail me.

aegis,

You are acting like a punk! It doesn't take any guts to throw out cheap insults from behind an anonymous user name on a tennis forum. Even making light of Muhammad Ali and what happened to him.

You are one sorry soul. Nobody ever said anything anywhere close to that about Fed and you know it. You are only using that excuse to spew out your own hatespeak.

I had a dream last night..Rafa beat Fed 6-1, 6-0. Not sure where, which tourney..no clue..just had a dream..and even post this match how that result got discussed bigtime on tennistalk as it was after Rafas comeback from injury.

Just saying, it was a dream, though I doubt anything as lopsided as that scoreline would happen between them. RG 2008 where Rafa beat Fed 6-1, 6-3,6-0 or WTF2011 where Fed beat Rafa 6-3,6-0 were just plain aberrations

arrogant cheater

sucks nadal

arrogant cheater

sucks nadal

arrogant cheater

sucks nadal

Nadal unsportsmansalike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnBi__R4Fs

bump Nadal into Rosol at Wimbledon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klQnRrkl-S8&feature?=related

arrogant sore loser



Nadal bump purposely from? frustration. It is clear.


Many of tennis fans know that Nadal is a player of dirty gamesmanship. fale time-out cheater.
too annoying always. excuse. bump to player. ugly protest. push of ego two-year-ranking.
looks down on Sampras era. etc.

we can go to see. Nadal wear the shirt of "history 7" Nadal and his fan perform a chat. And that video was exhibited all over the world.


selfish arrogant team

It's Time to Stop Nadal's Cheating


http://www.aolnews.com/2010/09/30/its-time-to-stop-rafae l-nadals-cheating/

most dislike player of all times.

2009. Murray
2010. Nadal
2011. Nadal.


arrogant gamesmanship player ever

in Mens Tennis Forum

Nadal Said To Reap $1.5 Million For Two Hours Of Tennis At MSG


Rafael Nadal will be paid $1.5 million for an exhibition tennis match at Madison Square Garden (MSG), a person with direct knowledge of the contract said. The 11-time Grand Slam singles champion and the third- ranked player on the ATP World Tour is the headliner for the March 4 event, where he?ll face 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro.


Serena Williams, a 14-time major champion, will play top- ranked Victoria Azarenka in the first match of the sixth annual event, billed this time as BNP Paribas Showdown.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...is-at-msg.html




Pla nning exhibitions while injured?

arrogant cheater never learn

King of excuse cheater.

always continues an excuse

sick

RAFA'S ABSENCE IS NOW A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CHIMES IN:

http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2012/08/30/tennis-how-to-fix-the- u-s-open/

Choice quotes:

The U.S. Open is on Day Four, we?ve had mostly good weather, nine
comebacks from two sets down in the men?s tournament and Kim Clijsters has played her last-ever Grand Slam singles match. And somehow, it feels like not much has happened. Most of the matches in the main stadiums have been blowouts: In 15 matches over the first three days, only one winner ? John Isner ? has lost a set. The night sessions have been laughable. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the winners beat the losers by a combined score of 60-11. Even the comebacks have somehow lacked drama.

So what?s going on at the Open? Does it just seem a bit dimmer in comparison with the recent Olympics? Does the tournament miss Rafael Nadal even more than we all thought it would? Or are we in fact just at the beginning of a fine Open? We put this to our panel of tennis contributors to discuss:

Jason Gay: I do feel Rafa is a loss. I wasn?t sure what to expect heading into the tournament. I mean, after all, you still had Federer, Djokovic and Murray, not a bad consolation. But there?s no question that Nadal is a beloved player with a substantial following and real panache on the court. It?s a little sad to see the Rafa shirts for sale at the Nike NKE -0.40% store; all that neon, dressed up and no place to go.

Carl Bialik: First, a disclosure: I?m watching from London. I don?t get into town for the Open until next week.

In prior years, Rafa always did seem like a huge star in New York. He?s respected in Paris and London, but the French Open fans seem exhausted by his dominance and he?ll always be third to London fans after Murray and Federer. But in New York, fans really responded to his bright outfits, his muscles and of course his electric game. Plus he wanted that title for so long and it was the last major he won. So I do think he?s missed ? he brought an energy to Ashe night-session blowouts other players don?t.


Matthew Futterman: It?s early, plenty of tennis to be played, though I miss Rafa. He?s just a dynamo on and off the court ? a true star in a way that transcends everything and makes the place crackle.

Get well soon Rafa.............at this rate, they will send a team of commandos to get you!!

Rafa saved tennis from the boring weak era but people tended to forget that until now. He is also the most watchable player ever along with JMac. One good thing about his absence at the USO is that it has illustrated how much tennis tournaments rely on the aura of Rafael Nadal. Some people still try to deny it but you can see and feel it, the USO is so flat; as Brad Gilberts puts it, it like watching a band without the lead singer.

That's why Rafa is always given night matches after night matches and when his fans complain they say he is the marquee player and that's what TV wants. Even when Rafa blows his opponent off the court, he does it with panache and sparkle.

The sponsors, promoters and anyone who is who in tennis are now working hard to get Rafa, the pied piper of tennis better and back on court asap. Right now, the Kennedy Space Centre is sending specialist to space to discover a once and for all cure for Rafa's knees. Yes it's rocket science!

Danyarosol and scoretracker may poke fun at those who say the USO is boring without Rafa and that Rafa is Tennis, but you can't argue with the facts.

#Get Well Soon Rafa
Tennis needs you!

The above link didn't work so I found it myself and I agree.
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/09/30/its-time-to-stop-rafael-nada ls-cheating/

This link works much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBwjZwpOKw

Actually crap18, instead of researching about Rafa all the time, why don't you post another one of your bad soderling poetries? Afterall, NNY and I could really use a good laugh!!

jean, genuine masterpiece, not a silly blog written by a Rafa hater.

Federer should have been defaulted for trying to cheat and unsportsmanlike behaviour by arguing with the umpire. Leyani even cautioned him for his lippy.

That's called seeing with your heart and not your eyes. The link goes right to an Obama article so I'll paste :


It's Time to Stop Rafael Nadal's Cheating
Sep 30, 2010 ? 6:48 PM




Greg Couch
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Time to crack down on Rafael Nadal's cheating. That's right, he's cheating. Everyone knows it and no one seems to care.

Now, it's so openly accepted and forgiven that he apparently has even admitted to it. The Spanish newspaper El Pais asked him about looking to his coaches box during the final of the U.S. Open, when he beat Novak Djokovic, and Nadal reportedly said this:

"It was in the last game, when I was serving for the match. ... I didn't know where to serve. Down the center, to the middle or to try the classic play of the wide serve and then try to hit the forehand. They told me to serve wide and that's where I served."

They told him? It is against the rules to receive coaching during a match. Nadal knows it, too.


"The rules are the rules," he said at Wimbledon, when Toni Nadal, his uncle and coach, was fined $2,000 for coaching Rafa in a match. A few years ago, too, Roger Federer grumbled that Uncle Toni was trying to give advice from the stands.

It might not seem like a big deal, but it is. You see players doing it all the time in tennis, as this is its open secret. But it's still wrong.

I don't accept it, and neither should tennis' governing bodies. It is time to suspend Uncle Toni, boot him from a major tournament. And hit Nadal with a big fine.

Plenty of people, even within the game, think the better plan is to simply dump the rule. They are wrong. This is not the jaywalking of tennis rules. It is a basic tenet of the game, the guts of what tennis is about.

In fact, I would say it is the point of tennis: You are standing on a court alone, without help. You make the decisions, execute the shots. You are testing your body, your mind, your nerve.

Not your uncle's.

The coaches have their time, and it's before the match. At some point, the players have to be able to think on their own.

Sure, there is coaching in other sports, but that is about their culture. Tennis is a test of your individuality, a game played without help. In fact, when a player cramps up, in tennis he is not seen as hurt, but as unfit and unprepared physically.

It's about personal responsibility, not asking your uncle where to serve.

Nadline - By your own rules if Federer should be punished for arguing with an umpire then Nadal should too, since he has done it many times himself!

There is a big difference between a blog and visual evidence. Greg Couch is evidently nothing but a Rafa hater. All this talk about coaching during matches is rubbish because no one stops access to their coach during a rain delay. It's just one of those silly anomalies in the ATP rules.

crap18, don't worry, Rafa will be back to star in 'Killing Federer' 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZ6QK52aic

rbennett, Rafa doesn't use foul language like Federer and Rafa only disputes wrong decisions by the umpire not demand that a good call be overturned. That's the difference.

Here's another one for ya where Nadal says I don't want to play anymore (because I didn't get my way). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u3PbtBEN3w&feature=related

I have seen lots of other players receive advice etc from their coaches and others and that includes some of the other top 4! So why only pick on Rafa - typical hypocrisy.

Also, it is time that all this nasty trashtalk is removed from TT as it seems to have blossomed recently. The more they get away with it the more they post. I have no words that adequately describe these Fed fans - they know who they are and I am sorry to say they far outnumber the nice ones. Just like their hero they think they are head and shoulders above everyone else and have the attitude that goes with that sentiment.

I'm done & dusted.

Another nice clip just for fun : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eog0TaQ1o3c&feature=related

@chr18 , 9/2/12 2:44 PM
That's a player's right. It's different to blatantly cheating which was what Federer did.

crap18, you are now scraping the barrel.

I was sitting right behind Bernardes chair at the O2 when that happened. Rafa was right, he should have been given the point.

Le's put this to bed now with this one last clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr3bKiH0d1I

This is one for all tennis fans to enjoy:

http://worldnewsdaylee.weebly.com/roger-federer-cheating.htm l

Have to hand it to nadline that Rafa never uses foul language. Its not that Fed uses foul language very often , but I have seen him do that, once against DelPo in USO finals and he also said shutup to Nole family once in Monte Carlo.

But still Fed also rarely loses cool . But even if Rafa loses cool, he will never aduse or use foul language.

Even never saw Pete used any foul language. He was maybe the coolest guy around. Very business like .

Nadal raised his hand to challenge. Then Carlos, who is afraid of Nadal, said the ball was out. Hawkeye confirmed it was in so there is no way it should have been Nadal's point. Nadal went over to the tournament director and cried like a bitch that he didn't want to play any longer.

A blog about the bitch.

http://federerisdoping.blogspot.com.au/

Carlos Bernardes is asleep half the time. I was about 2ft from Rafa when he appealed to the ATP rep and I didn't see him crying.

The last quote from the cheat, King Cry Baby, is a classic!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/tennis-busted-racquet/roger- evaluating-federer-cocky-comments-154457703.html

Federer thinks Rafa will skip the rest of the season:

http://www.tennisworldusa.org/Federer-speaks-on-possibility -of-Nadal-skipping-the-rest-of-the-season-articolo5790.html

Everybody, including the GOAT, and especially Fedfans, is obsessing about Rafa! And Rafa himself? Playing golf in Mallorca!

To be honest, I don't think Fed or Nole or Murray are obsessed with Rafa. They are just asked abut Rafa and they reply to that question.

Even if Fed or Nole misses a tournament , Rafa would reply on similar terms.

Its a reply to a question. Fed, Nole and Andy have plenty of other things to think about their upcoming matches

Just to put things in perspective , this is the transcript where Fed talks about Rafa only when he is asked about it

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2012-08-25/20120825134 5928881885.html?promo=relatedcontent

fedexal,
Don't be fooled by Nadal's Mallorcan style Spanish that most people don't know. He does curse Gaudio in this clip calling him a 'sudaca' which is a racist word similar to the 'n' word. He curses a lot in this type of Spanish but not in English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9Yg59QrSw&mode=suggested&se arch=

chr18, why do you hate Rafa so much?

Chr18, I usually have my own belief and thoughtprocess which is not influenced by
Fedtard or Nadtard and I believe Rafa does not abuse .

And mind you , I don't think even Fed is abusive. But I have seen him abuse once or twice.

I suppose jean is going to be warned about her doping post at 3:05. I don't hate anybody nadline. Just want to show the facts.

Did you see the post @aegis , 9/1/12 6:10 PM?

Not one Fedfan has complained about it, not one!

Oh look, it's crap18's turn to cry like a bitch now for not liking how the game is going. You started posting crap but when you can't get your way, you start crying like Fed. Boohooo.....

Did I WRITE that Fed is dopping? You really are that much of an idiot? Never cease to amaze me!

That's right Nadline, crap18 doesn't complain when the fed tards accuse rafa of dopping but quick to jump when post a URL - probably created by a fed tard itself!

Oh lighten up fedexal, seriously? Try not to take everything that's posted on this site literally for heaven's sake........

BTW if anyone watching the tie-break between Ferrer and Hewitt, it was some great dogged tennis ....really very intriguing.

Rafa took time off just to drive home how much he brings to tennis. They were taking him too much for granted.

#Rafa saved tennis from boredom
#Come back when you are fully fit
#And Get Well Soon

Well...Ferrer and Hewitt... are showing us some magnificent tennis...
It's really shame that only one has to go on....

This is what they are missing at the USO 2012.

Here's is what they are missing at the USO 2012:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONAOwPlDOCg&feature=related



I've opened the thread for the Ferrer/Hweitt match!!!

Even Ricky and Cheryl have gone AWOL during a slam.

If Fed gets an award its a rigged one, if rule violator gets one it is genuine.