Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal did a lengthy interview with CNN’s Talk Asia while playing at the Shanghai Masters last month. “I’m not a machine,” Nadal revealed, “and like everybody I... Read Full Story

"I'm not a machine, and like everybody I have better moments than others," Rafael Nadal told CNN in Shanghai. "Tennis is a hard sport, a very, very tough mental sport because you play a lot of matches during the season and you have to be ready every week. So you need to be very focused all the time -- 100 percent physical and mental -- if you want to have chances to have a good result. Sometimes you feel you need to stop. I played every week for a long time and I forgot I had to stop for an... Read Full Story

Top seed Rafael Nadal profited from the ninth retirement of this week's Shanghai Masters as he advanced into the final 6-1, 3-0 after fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez retired with a right ankle injury. Nadal, an injury victim himself twice this season and still on his way back to full fitness, will play Sunday for his fourth Masters 1000 title of the season against Nikolay Davydenko. The Russian, out for nearly three months with a foot and ankle problem, ended a lengthy confrontation by... Read Full Story

Frustrated Andy Roddick said Monday the ATP was wearing out its top players, warning that a men's tennis schedule without a proper off-season was asking for trouble. The American, who is trying to recover form after losing early last week in Beijing, now has a fresh start at the Shanghai Masters, beginning in the second round against Swiss Stan Wawrinka. Speaking ahead of his opener at the Qi Zhong complex, Roddick said that the ATP could be heading for a clash with worn-out top players if... Read Full Story

Round 2 Friday night, September 4, 2009 Rafael Nadal defeated Nicolas Kiefer 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 , 6-4 Round 3 Next Rafa plays Sunday, September 6, 2009 His opponent will be Spaniard Nicolas Almagro The match won't begin before 12:30 p.m. on Arther Ashe Court In the USA, it is supposedly going to be televised on CBS. I say "supposedly" because Friday night CBS cut away to other matches, so thankfully it was live streamed on www.usopen.org But this weekend whenever CBS is airing the U.S. Open there... Read Full Story

DUBAI (Reuters) - Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will begin the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi by playing in a six-man, $250,000 winner-takes-all exhibition tournament, local media reported Tuesday. Swiss world number one Federer and his Spanish rival have confirmed they will be taking part in the event, which starts on December 31, Dubai's Gulf News quoted organizers as saying. Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Russian Nikolay Davydenko, Spain's Fernando Verdasco and Swede Robin Soderling will also... Read Full Story

Andy Murray on Thursday withdrew from next week's Shanghai Masters, saying he will need another several weeks of rest and rehabilitation on his injured wrist. In a letter to tournament officials, the 22-year-old Scot said that "rehabilitation has to be a priority." His pullout comes after Roger Federer, exhausted after a furious May-September winning run, also withdrew and leaves Rafael Nadal as top seed at the inaugural edition of the tournament as an ATP Masters 1000. Murray has been... Read Full Story

It looks like Rafael Nadal keeps playing golf while he is not on the tennis courts... a few days ago he was playing golf with Sergio Garcia and now he was spotteded playing golf at the Friends of Rafa Nadal vs Friends of Ana Patricia Botín at the Golf II Challenge... If I'm not mistaken this golf tournament was at the Pedreña golf club in Santander and Rafael Nadal attended with his family... Enjoy Nadal's photos... Photos from MTF Read Full Story

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will stage the Davis Cup final against Czech Republic at the indoor Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, the country's Tennis Federation (RFET) said on Saturday. The arena, built for the 1992 Olympics, has a capacity of 17,000 and was the venue for Spain's first Davis Cup triumph, against Australia in 2000. Spain's current captain Albert Costa was part of that winning team. Spain have since won the Davis Cup twice more and the December 4-6 final against the Czechs will see... Read Full Story

BEIJING (Reuters) - World number three Andy Murray has withdrawn from next week's inaugural $5.25 million Shanghai Masters because of a wrist injury, organizers said Thursday. The Briton, who also missed this week's Japan Open for the same reason, joined world number one Roger Federer in pulling out of the penultimate Masters series event of the season. Murray sustained the injury in Cincinnati in August and, after a medical examination Wednesday, was advised to rest his wrist for two to... Read Full Story