iVamos Rafael!

Olka

Hyh znalazłam wywiad z Rafą po ćwierćfinale z Youzhnym
osobiście do dzisiaj go nie widziałam toteż prosze bardzo:

US OPEN 2006
6.09.06
po przegranym meczu z Youzhnym

THE MODERATOR: First question, please.

Q. Why was it such a struggle to find a rhythm out there today? You've been able to play with a good rhythm throughout this tournament. Why the struggle today?

RAFAEL NADAL: I am not agree. But you think that, okay. Not really. Maybe I play my best match in New York here today.
My best tennis. Youzhny was playing the unbelievable tennis, especially in the beginning. I have Love 40 in the third set, and in the most important moment I have 5 4, 0 40, one time in the third.
I was playing very, very good. For me, I was playing good, no? Not out of rhythm, no? Not out of the rhythm.
I am happy with my tennis, but I have I was not playing with my best calm in the important moments in the points. I never say that, no, but, sure, today, I don't have the best of luck. Because if when you have Love 40 and 6 5 and 5 4 in the tiebreak, you touch the net and the ball go out for the baseline, so that's not the best of luck, no?
But that's it, no? I say congratulate to Mikhail. He was playing very, very good. I thought I was playing great, too. But after, I was not playing with the best calm in that moments.

Q. At the changeover in the fourth set, when you were behind love 5, you looked very, very sad. You sat for a long time. Do you remember what you were thinking, what was going through your mind at that changeover?

RAFAEL NADAL: I have a big chance, no? I was have a big chance for be in the semifinals here in the third set because Mikhail, I saw him, he was tired, too, no? And if I win the third, I was playing better than him in the third, no? I have every game in the return, I have 15 30, Love 15, and I win my games easy, no?
So I was playing better than him in that moments. And you know I lost a very important I lost an important opportunity for be in the semifinals. And you never know after, no?
Sure, was not the best moment, no?

Q. Andy Murray said earlier today after losing to Davydenko 6 Love in the fourth set, he said that he was very proud of his accomplishment in so much as he's a young man, he's 19 years old, you're 20, but that he was able to come here and exceed anything he did in the past. Like yourself, he said, I played my best tennis, what more could I do. Is that the way you feel? Are you proud of yourself and what you were able to do in the big picture in this tournament?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, maybe is not the same situation, no? Is a different situations of the career. So Andy is playing good the last tournaments, is playing good in Toronto, was playing good in Cincinnati, play the final the tournament before Toronto. So for him is a good tournament, no? He played no, he played the fourth round here, no?
But, sure, the expectations, he's a young guy. His first year in the top positions. So the expectations is not the same for him than for me, no?
Sure, I am happy with my game because maybe I play not bad game today. But, sure, I cannot say I am very happy with my tournament. I lost in quarterfinals. I am the No. 2 in the world. So I lost with the last eight. If I am the No. 2, I play the final, no?
That's joke, but...
It's okay. I know was important chance for me. So I am happy. I improve my tennis here in New York. Is the first year I play better here. But, sure, I am disappointed, no? I need improve, no? My goal now is improve. I was playing not the best moment in the year the last three tournaments. I want improve my tennis.
I know today I play good tennis, but I want to improve. My special goal is next year in Australia, no? So I want to improve. I have four months, and I gonna try my best. I gonna try improve every day, work hard every day.

Q. What do you need to improve most?

RAFAEL NADAL: You always can improve, no? If you have a little bit. It wasn't serve bad, but if you have better service, all change. I need play more aggressive with the return. I am try today. But is not easy. Is not one day. I want to play aggressive today, so is that not true, no? I am trying, but I need improve that. I need improve a little bit more my volley. I always improve, but I need improve more.

Q. Considering you're No. 2 and this was a very, very big win, are you at all surprised he had the kind of staying power he had, he never seemed to look shaky at all toward the end?

RAFAEL NADAL: You know, with the 5 0 is...
If you are 5 4, so we will see, no? But with the 5 0, is different, no? You have a lot of games.

Q. Obviously, now, the end of the Grand Slam season. You've had in many ways a remarkable year. How do you look at your year this year in Grand Slams? Are you happy?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, I can't say I am not happy with my year, no? I play final in French Open, I play final in Wimbledon, I am in quarters here. I cannot say I am not happy with my year.
But I need be ambitious, no? I want to play good in every tournament, and I want to play the final in every tournament. I know that's impossible, but I gonna try, no? I need improve for try that, no?

Q. Why do you think you didn't win today? Was it the service or what?

RAFAEL NADAL: Because I lose.

Q. Why do you think you lost it today? The surface?

RAFAEL NADAL: Why the surface, no? Is good surface for me. He play very good tennis, and I was playing good, but I was... (Speaking Spanish).
THE MODERATOR: He didn't make the most of his chances. He didn't take his opportunities.
RAFAEL NADAL: That's it. Not gonna find the surfaces. That's it. The tennis is easy (smiling).

Q. In the fourth set, were you still thinking about those lost opportunities you had in the third set?

RAFAEL NADAL: He was beginning very fast, very hard in the fourth. I am trying to fight, but I wasn't I don't know, no? The balls is going out all the time. I was not my best in the fourth, no? I know a lost a big opportunity. And after that, Mikhail is playing unbelievable, no, all balls inside, all winners.
So, you know, no, if you don't have get the opportunities, the chances, is tough. So that's it.

Q. Did you have anything wrong with your ankle?

RAFAEL NADAL: It's okay. Is stupid now say anything about that, no? No, it's okay. I never I don't want to speak never when I lose. If I win, I say anything about my ankle. But if I lose, that's as I lose, I lose. No ankle, no pain, nothing. I lose (smiling).

Q. It's true, it's normal?

RAFAEL NADAL: I lose. He play better than me.

Q. Did you feel the crowds were behind you trying to lift you?

RAFAEL NADAL: Well, not the best day, no? "Misha, Misha." I listen that more than "Rafa, Rafa" (laughing).
No, it's okay. The public is support me a lot in the last days. Today was not the best day, but that's okay. Sometimes good, sometimes with me, sometimes with him. But not influence in the match.

Q. For people from the outside, they say the biggest surprise of your year is you made the finals at Wimbledon. Was that a surprise to you looking back, or is it something you...

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, was surprise, no? For me was surprise, too. But I wasn't play bad in Wimbledon three years ago when I beat Ancic in the first round. I lost in the third round against Srichaphan. I play semifinals there when I was Junior, when I was 16. I play against the 18 years old guy.
So I know if I am playing good, I can play good in fast surfaces, no?

Arw

Ehm.. nie wiem, czy chcę sobie przypominać ten mecz ;<...

asiunia91

Ja na pewno nie chce Arw!!! Crying or Very sad

Olka

hej nie rozpaczajmy i tak Rafa miał świetny rok jeśli chodzi o Wielkiego Szlema. Na każdym z tych turniejów uzyskał najlepszy (lub równie dobry) wynik w całej swojej karierze Mr. Green

nie można od razu wymagać, zeby wygrywał wszystko. Federer kiedy miał 20 lat nie miał ANI JEDNEGO tytułu wielkoszlemowego, a Rafi ma już 2

jarkko

racja Olka Mruga

Wisełka

No właśnie !! To pozytywny aspekt ich rywalizacji Mruga

A mi się śniło ostatnio, że Roger zakończył karierę Laughing

asiunia91

Fajny sen Wiselko... kiedys sie spelni.... tylko kiedy;)
No to fakt ze Rafa ladnie gral w Wielkich Szlemach.. no poza AO bo tam nie gral hihi;)
Pozdrawiam

Daga

Tak, niezły ten sen.
Tylko kiedy on sie spełni?

Olka

no no no... Rafa zaczął walczyć o swoje... Rolling Eyes

Madryt 2006
20.10.06
po przegranym meczy z Berdychem

Q. Rafa, what did you say to Berdych at the end of the game? He said that you told him that he was a bad guy, he was very bad. Is that correct?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah. Correct.

Q. What do you mean by that?

RAFAEL NADAL: Huh?

Q. What do you mean when you say he's very bad? In what ways is he very bad?

RAFAEL NADAL: Maybe he's -- The question was if I had said to Berdych that he was very bad. That was the question. Okay? And the answer is that I've told him that, yes. With my emotions because I'm very -- I get cold when I lose.

But I think he's a player that week after week shows he's one of the top players in the world. He's very close to being in the Top-10. Next year he'll probably reach the Top-10 because he has a very high tennis level.

But I said that because in Toronto I didn't say anything, but he was constantly giving bad looks and nasty looks to the opponent. At that time it was not good.

And today during the match it happened again constantly. He looked, and he looked at me with not a very friendly face. During the match I'm focused on my game. I wasn't about to say anything during the match. But maybe the last thing he did with his finger was out of place.

The crowd was supporting me. It has been excellent. But nothing against him. The crowd supports a Spanish player. I've also played in the Czech Republic, and I want to thank the crowd. It has been an incredible atmosphere. And for me it's been an honor to play here again. Even though I'm leaving in the quarter finals, my feelings are great.

Well, he did that at the end with his finger. I won the fifth point in Czech Republic, which I think is more important than quarter finals here, and the crowd was not supporting me that time either. And I didn't do anything with my fingers or my face or my attitude there. In my opinion that's what he should have been doing here.

For the rest, nothing else to say. You need to analyze the match itself and not what happens afterwards, the consequences of everything. What you need to analyze is the match. For the rest we will go -- he'll go his way, I'll go mine, and we will meet or not. We'll see.

Q. You almost won the second set.

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah. I played a good set. The set point, I could have been doing much better. But he was doing, Berdych was doing great with his shots and his backhand and was putting pressure on me. My second serve was a bit forced maybe. Oh well, that's how things are. I think my level has been very high, but he has won me. With playing a bad match anyway. His level was high as well. My level was high, too.

Q. Last year Federer and you won almost everything. Berdych only won Paris, Bercy. Does it make you feel better towards Shanghai?

RAFAEL NADAL: No, not at all. Because for me Madrid is one of the most important tournaments of the year. After the four Grand Slams. Well, Masters, Shanghai. Madrid is there for me, to play at home is very special, in the Masters Series, it's more special. I don't think it has been good for Shanghai. What's been good here is to keep playing at my high level.

I'm in a good way, and this is a good experience. I think I am training hard and with enthusiasm for a long time. And right now I'm achieving to become a more comprehensive player, better serve. My drive is working well now. Back hand is usually good. I'm at a very good stage of my career. For me that's very very important, and I've worked hard to be here.

Q. I need to go back to the subject that we talked about before. Don't you think you may have made a slight error when you shook hands with him and on TV you said he was an asshole?

RAFAEL NADAL: No, I didn't say that. Maybe you heard me wrong. I said he was stupid. That's a little bit less disrespectful.

No, in my opinion it hasn't been an error. In you're saying it's been an error, I respect you.

Q. No, I'm not here to give my opinion.

RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, you've given your opinion. You're going to have yours, and I'm going to have mine. An interviewer can have their opinion.

In my opinion he's a player that has an irate attitude. It's not an irate attitude that I have. He's not a bad person. He's said I said it in a cold tone of voice. End of story. You saw he left the stadium with the whistles of the crowd.

Q. You've played all around the world, and you've known many crowds, many different republics. Do you think the crowd here in Madrid has behaved correctly?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yes. It's been a great crowd.

Q. Last detail about the subject. He said you said, "You're very bad at the net." According to him he said, "Yes, but I won against you three times." Very few players have beaten you three times. That's something I heard somewhere.

RAFAEL NADAL: Has he said that? I didn't listen to that point.

Q. It was logical for the press that you would play the final?

RAFAEL NADAL: Logical for you, press, for you. I've been saying here every day it was not logical. For me it was a match I could lose, and I lost it. But I got a good image on every point. It's been lost. It's a match that I lost against a great player.

He won Roddick yesterday. He defeated him in two sets. That's something to take into account. He is at a high level, and you cannot stop him sometimes. And that's it.

If he said he won me three times, he's right.

Q. The other day when the first round match ended, when you were signing autographs a girl asked you if you were going to play the final, and you said very seriously, "No, I'm sorry, but I won't." Why? Why did you do that? It was in the tunnel.

RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. I don't know. I said, "I'm sorry, but, no", but I didn't say no like -- it was a no like, well, it's tough. I knew it was going to be difficult.

It's a surface that suits me, but it is tough. And you need to take that into account. It's a final in the Masters Series. It's not a bad result where I've reached against a great player. I'm not leaving the tournament with a poor feeling of myself. I'm satisfied. I don't want to go into excuses.

Even though we had this thing at the end, this incident, I wouldn't want the press conference to be focused on that, to see that in the press tomorrow.

The match is won with the racket. The rest is only something which can dirty the image of tennis. It hasn't been that serious. It's something that he could have not done, and that's it. For the rest, I accept it.

Q. Are you going to stay and watch Real Madrid?

RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. What do the real supporters think? Do you want me to watch the final match or not? Because they say I am jinxed. I am not jinxed. Maybe I stay, yes, and watch it. I don't know.

Q. Could I ask you one last question about the crowd. Berdych said what he didn't like was the fact that the crowd -- he understood that the crowd supported you, but he didn't like the way the crowd was cheering his mistakes. And in particular when he served a double fault. What did you feel about the crowd's behavior at that point?

RAFAEL NADAL: I feel one thing. I feel when I was playing in Czech Republic in Davis Cup, when I had a double fault and the public supported him a lot and said, "Rafael", because I remember the public. I don't remember he don't say, "Please stop, stop, that's not correct." So now is the same.

Q. What he said though is that he expects that in the Davis Cup, but he would not expect it in another tournament.

RAFAEL NADAL: That's not true, because I play a lot of tournaments. And if you play against any local player, that's normal. That's good for tennis. Everything, the public support one player, the local player. Maybe for me the public of today was not bad with him. The public supported me a lot, and that's very nice.

Last week I played against players in Stockholm, and the public supported them a lot and supported when I made a double fault, when I made one mistake. So when I go to the press conference, I don't say nothing. So I say the public was very good, because that's good for the tennis. That's good for tennis. And in football, 1,000 people support his team, and the other team is normal. If you play in your house at home, it's normal that the public supports their player or their team.

Q. Different styles match up in different ways. Is there something about his style which matches up bad for you?

RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah. He plays very aggressive. He has very good shots, very tough shots. He drives the ball very hard. He plays very long. It's difficult.

I am trying to sometimes returning inside the court. I am trying to sometimes go from the back for a return. I'm trying to play a little bit more aggressive, a little bit more defensive. I'm trying all the time to find a way. But it was very difficult. He was playing very good. I find a way, because I played a very good second set.

I had my chances, and I didn't have good luck in those moments. For me it was a nice match with different styles. He was good. He was playing very, very good. I was playing good, too. The tennis is two points sometimes. Today I had a chance with myself in the 6-5 and after in the 6-6. It was his ball and he had the passing shot, with the back hand, passing shot. At that moment the match changed a lot in one point. That's it.

But the match for me was a very nice match, a very good level with different styles. Both styles were good. His worked a little bit better, but I am trying for next year. I'll work harder for playing next year. And I want to win this match next year for sure. Thank you.

asiunia91

Czy kto moze mi pomoc bo nie weim czy dobrze zrozumialam.
Rafa powiedział Berdychowi pod koniec meczu " Jestes bardzo zly i glupi"?
PLZ odpowiedzcie:D

Olka

nie no bo to było tak, że po meczu Berdych nie bardzo zachował się w stosunku do publiczności, co prawda nie wiem jak publiczność faktycznie zachowywała się wobec niego, no ale grunt na tym że Rafie to co zrobił Tomas się nie spodobało i powiedział mu, że jest "złym człowiekiem". potem na konferencji prasowej Berdych powiedział, że bardziej liczy się dla niego to, że pokonał Rafę na jego terenie niż to że jest w półfinale.

sama juz nie wiem co myśleć o zachowaniu Rafy. być może działał pod wpływem chwili, może nie bardzo lubi Berdycha, ale chyba nie powinien mu od razu wypalać z tekstem, że jest "złym człowiekiem" Rolling Eyes

asiunia91

Publicznosc byla strasznie chamska:/
Jak Berdych wygral to wszyscy gwizdali:/
Nie bylo ani jednego oklasku:/

Olka

no to teraz już kompletnie nie wiem co o tym myśleć Confused

Daga

No wiecie...
W sumie 99% tej publiki była za Rafim, więc się nie dziwię, że Berdych nie dostał braw...
Ale w sumie, Rafa też nie zachował się fair... No ale...

asiunia91

Jezeli Berdych powiedzial, to co powiedzial, to Rafa spokojnie molg mu to powiedziec!
A jak!
I jeszcze molg mu po wyjsciu z szatni skopac tylek!
O!
Vamos RAFA!!!