Now seriously, Rafa put his life on hold while being distressed, sleep deprived and worried cause he didn't want to fail Roger. He went to London with a torn ab and a pregnant wife who is due in like 10 days, to hold his hand during his farewell ceremony. Is it clicking or..?
Rafa confirmed:
“He told me about retirement 10 days before announcing it but he didn’t even know if he could play(…) he knew also I can’t be far from home for too long.
I only told him: confirm you’re going and as much as I can I’ll be with you, whether you’re playing or not”.
Federer says he told Nadal about retirement 10 days before the public announcement: "I wanted to let him know that I was maybe going to play doubles, so I was like 'If you can be there, it would be very special.'" 🥰🫶
The convo in Spanish was:
Cachin: muchísimas gracias, cumpliste mi sueño, gracias. No sé si puedes pero te lo quiero pedir, me puedo quedar con tu camiseta o toalla o algo?
Rafa: Sí ahora te doy, faltaría más. Suerte con todo.
Cachin at the net: You made my dream come true, thank you, thank you so much. Could you give me your shirt or towel or anything?
Rafa answered, “faltaría más” which is a way to say “of course I can”.🥹
Rafa saw the boy trying to get a casual snap with him just walking behind and STOPPED TO GIVE HIM A PROPER PIC EVEN IF HE WAS NOT ASKED TO, he’s been sent from above y’all
Rafa told
@partidazocope
that after his loss to Roger in Hamburg 2007 final, which interrupted his record of 81 (!!) straight wins on clay, Rafa asked Roger to sign and gift him the shirt he played in, to keep it as a memory. Roger wrote: “congrats for this unreachable record”.🥹
"Had to play an exho in Mallorca with Becker. Half an hour before he says he won’t play. ‘You’ll play a 14 yo boy’ they tell me. I go on court ready to make him win some games, so that he won't start crying. I lose in two, and only then I ask him his name: Rafael Nadal.”
Pat Cash
Rafa told
@partidazocope
also about the RG 2009: “I honestly didn’t want Roger to win at first cause I had chances to be world # 1 and his win was bad for me in that sense. But he was so close in 05,06,07 and 08 and when he finally got it I ended up crying, cause he deserved it”
People asking me who I will root for today, MATES, if Rafa plays Federer I root for Rafa, if he play Carlos I root for Rafa, if he plays my dad I root for Rafa, if he plays ME I ROOT FOR RAFA.
Cachin at the net: You made my dream come true, thank you, thank you so much. Could you give me your shirt or towel or anything?
Rafa answered, “faltaría más” which is a way to say “of course I can”.🥹
“Vainqueur du Roland Garros en 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 et en 2020, Mesdames et Messieurs, l’Espagnol Rafael Nadal!”
Inter-Sheriff 3-1, 3 di recupero, minuto 92.30, mio padre:
“Forse non c’è più tempo per PERDERLA”
L’interismo andrebbe catalogato tra i disturbi psichiatrici.
#InterSheriff
Polish tennis player Daniel Michalski shows what the DMs of a boy in his early twenties look like after losing a tennis match. Bettors are the CANCER of our society and have to be eradicated in any possible way.
Una mia amica j*ventina mi ha chiesto di tenerle il bambino (4 anni) per qualche ora. Dieci minuti fa è tornata e la prima cosa che lui le ha detto è stata “mamma, la Juve è cacca e ruba!”.
Ho perso la sua amicizia ma ho salvato il pargolo e la sua anima.
Someone in the crowd yelled “arrivederci Flavio” which means “goodbye Flavio” in italian. Rafa shook his head and apologized on their behalf to Cobolli.
But yeah, he should have yelled “shut the fuck up”, cult twitter assured me it’s good and appropriate.
Rafa just came out of the gym and was in the middle of a phone call, so he signed all the stuff people were asking him to sign basically with one hand. Then when people asked him to take pics with him he stopped there, ended the call, and APOLOGIZED for the delay. He’s unreal.😂
Now that emotions have faded a little bit, I want to say Rafael Nadal is the best thing ever happened to this sport. On Sunday he’ll meet probably the best player in the world at the moment but regardless of how it’ll go, to be there is an ode to the sport values. Thank you.💜
We really don’t know how this match would’ve ended but I hope Rafa knows he’s not stealing anything from anyone. A lot of times it has been him in the position to abandon a slam with an injury.
He deserves to be where he is. Speedy recovery to Zverev and vamos Rafa, always.
Coco saying “Rafa is my favorite person in the world” is literally me. Also, she’s signing in for Nadal’s
#1
fan contest alongside Iga, Emma and Paula.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit of Nadal cult, the establishment™️, the adepts of the “never break a racket-ism”.
Particular signs: they’re all traumatized by uncle T.
For those asking, here is the part where he tells Charlie he’s feeling “molta ansietat”, meaning “a lot of anxiety”. Charlie answered “sortirà, sortirà, which means “it’ll come, it’ll come”.
A Sky hanno appena detto che la colpa è delle altre squadre di serie A che hanno abituato la Juve a ritmi molto più bassi in campionato.
Io non so davvero cosa dire.