I got wrong at the press room
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Nadal serves in yesterday's Belluci match. (AP)
May 29.- Hello everybody.
Firts of all I want to apologise myself because this blog's entry arrives a bit late. Yesterday, when I came back to the hotel and I began to write the blog, I was told that they had some internet problems. It was not only in the hotel we are staying but in some other ones too. It should be true because some other players had the same problem.
I want also to say that on wednesday I got brong at the press conference. I said something I didn't want to, or better to say, I explained myself badly when I said I was out of place here. I was joking about the match scheduled issue and the fact I had to play dalayed due to the rain. Sometimes is difficult to express the things. I didn't want to say what I said or at least I didn't want it to sound too strong.
It would be too long to explain all here in this blog. I did it already at the press conference, but the journalits only pointed out with the sentences which sound the most, as normal. I know all these things but I didn't pay attention to what I was saying. The fact is that tomorrow I will play (today one you'll read this) and if I win I will have to play also on friday in order to make up the two days of rain. Other players have already played their second round matches, the will rest today, and tomorrow they'll play third round. Something didn't work as it should, but, anyway I can do nothing. I understand that tournament try to give spectacle with the players to the public. Everything OK.
Many people have asked me about what I did these two past rainy days and the answer is not so much. From monday, we left the hotel at about 8:30 am and we arrived early at the tournament. It was the same everyday. as I said in yesterday post we have to be ready. When you leave the hotel and you know it's rainning it's a terrible feeling. You think: why I go there if it will be rainning all day?
But it's necessary to go ther and get ready in case the rain stops by chance. Anyway, we are used to and if you take it with humour, we are getting ready to Wimbledon, jajaja.
Thank you everybody.
Painful massages
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Rafa Nadal. (Foto: AFP)
May 30th.- Hello everybody. Here we are in Paris one more day, waiting to go out to have some dinner and come back early to the hotel to prepare tomorrow’s match. In these blog entries I haven’t told you yet much about non tennis issues. I used to told you how do I get ready for a match, when I go out to the site, and so on. So, today, I’m going to tell you about the restaurant we use to go to have dinner almost everyday. It’s a small restaurant/ pizzeria which is called “Restaurante Napoletano”. Wonderful. The have the best pizza in Paris as well as their pasta, the ones I use to have always. They cook the pasta really well. White pasta with prawns and mushrooms. The same I cook in Wimbledon but they cook it better.
I was told by Vittorio Selmi, who works for ATP about this restaurant. Vitto is a man who is working for tennis for 30 years and he knows absolutely everything about this sport. Lately he is living hard days and I would like to send him also from here a greeting as well as a big hug. Everyday when we arrive at the restaurant we remind him and talk about him. Cheer up, Vitto!
Yesterday, as usual, we went to the reaturant at 9 pm. If I’m scheduled to play early (first or second match), we used to go at that time, but if I’m scheduled later we go by 9.30 pm. Yesterday, because of the rain stop we had for more than an hour, we left the club to reach the hotel at about 7.30 pm. Tomorrow we will leave the hotel to go to the club at about 8.30 am.
I was telling you that when I come back to the hotel we have to do more tennis work. Rafa Maymo, the physiotherapist who travels with me to every tournament, gives me massages to recover for the next day. Maybe some of you could think that it’s a good thing a massage, isn’I it? . indeed no. They are not that kind of massages to relax. Is a sport one, the ones that hurt, because he presses and it hurts.
Ok, I have to finish because I have to go out for dinner. Tomorrow is my third match in three days row if everything goes right. The forecast says it’s possible it will be raining in the evening. For that reason they asked me if I wanted to play second match instead the third one because of rain risk.
Greetings to everyone.
Rafa