Rafael Nadal Said It Didn’t Matter That He Played On Suzanne Lenglen

I dont care what court your on Rafa just do your best,nice match today to get started with no drama either….

May 26th, 2014 at 5:34 pm

Rafa makes a great start: a double bagel dished out to poor Ginepri.

May 26th, 2014 at 6:18 pm

Rafa’s made a point about complaining about many courts he plays on … recently complained about the conditions on Chstrier so they let him play on Lenglen … IMO serves him right.

May 26th, 2014 at 7:30 pm

I didn’t even know Ginepri was still on tour. Did he get lost on the way to a Legends match with Jay Berger?

May 26th, 2014 at 8:17 pm

9 is yours Rafa, you will tie the great Martina Navratilova as the only two tennis players to win a same major 9 times.
Vam9s!

May 26th, 2014 at 8:41 pm

Rafa played on Lenglen twice last year……no problem mon!!

May 26th, 2014 at 8:57 pm

TV,
LMAO @ 8:17 post!

May 26th, 2014 at 9:11 pm

ginepri is 31.
grandpa for sure.

sometimes being off tour with major injury affects rankings.

ex top 20. made round of 16 twice at RG, taking a set off novak in 2010.

true, he’s no lacko, though.

and nadal’s 2nd round opponent, rising star thiem,
is certainly no Schwartzman. whoever that is.

May 27th, 2014 at 12:41 am

ohh drama. Is over.

May 27th, 2014 at 1:00 am

Nice opening match by Rafa.
LOL. Some posters here can’t still make the different when Rafa state his opinion and Rafa complaining. Really a joker but not Djoker Nole for sure.

May 27th, 2014 at 4:13 am

Of course it won’t matter to Nadal if he gets to play on slow red clay against a 31 year old right handed player ranked 279.

If he had drawn a tough first round match and lost, you can be sure it would have been the court’s fault (or some fake injury).

As long as he is winning, he is always healthy.

May 27th, 2014 at 4:32 am

Rafa would be extra happy if his draw filled of grandpa and papa players. But who fixed the draw for him? Hehehehe.
Good draw is no. IX. FOR RAFA.

May 27th, 2014 at 5:13 am

@Steve27

Navratilova’s last slam win in singles was her 9th Wimbledon title. The same will happen to Nadal this year. His 9th Roland Garros title will be his last slam win.

May 27th, 2014 at 11:34 am

^And i suppose your physcic friend has predicted that Novak will win every GS for the rest of the year and all 4 next year,as she always does,my god this physcic friend loves Novak?^

May 27th, 2014 at 11:43 am

@Hippy Chic

Nole will win Wimbledon and USO in 2014.

Nole will win only the AO in 2015.

May 27th, 2014 at 11:46 am

Murray will win Wimbledon the USO this year,and the AO next year,that is my dear friend Septic Pegs pyscics prediction,as i also have friends like that,the clues in the name Hippy Chic….

May 27th, 2014 at 12:14 pm

I feel bad for Jamie and his batting average on his predictions. It’s not any better that any Tom, Dick and Harry’s. It used to be interesting but now it’s only funny.

May 27th, 2014 at 12:30 pm

Polo its not even funny anymore just sad really,i loose my when the retirement word comes up,thats the only thing i get annoyed with….

May 27th, 2014 at 12:33 pm

Just to demonstrate their spirit of égalité, RG has scheduled Serena and Roger on Lenglen tomorrow. No problems.

May 27th, 2014 at 12:35 pm

^Loose my cool,i should say^….

May 27th, 2014 at 12:36 pm

Hippy, that is NOT what you should say, is it? Why do so many people online have problems with “lose” and “loose”?

May 27th, 2014 at 4:19 pm

Sorry Colin lose my cool….

May 27th, 2014 at 5:12 pm

Rafa does have a sense of humor…..during an interview, a reporter asked him if he was glad Novak was in the mix and Rafa said: “I like a challenge, but I’m not stupid”. I thought his answer was comical and so like him to tell the truth and be honest.

May 27th, 2014 at 6:10 pm

Hippy Chic, you really lost your cool there…resulting in premature click on the hit button without proofreading. I have done that a lot and worry that someone will notice. Of course, somebody always does. Hahaha! I don’t mind, though.

May 27th, 2014 at 6:42 pm

Why do you call Theim a phenom? This year so far he has been beaten by Peter Gojowczyk, Kevin Anderson, Andy Murray, Julien Benneteau, Tommy Robredo, Nicolas Mahut and Santiago Giraldo. He has got past the second round three times but does not have the skills and experience at this point to get into the really competitive later rounds. OK, he beat Stan Wawrinks but Stan appears to be in a funk right now with shock defeats at Madrid and Paris. He’s beaten some older guys like Jarkko Nieminem, Radek Stepanek, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Dimitry Tursunov and doubles specialist Marcel Granollers. Dominic looks as though he could have a really bright future but it’s far too early to predict an upset of Nadal on clay.

May 27th, 2014 at 7:21 pm

@TV *8:17

:) Amusing idea. I’d heard that Ginepri was in a bad motorcycle accident in or around 2010, and it took him a year to recover and rehab himself back into tennis shape. He’s ranked 279 now, but when he started his comeback before winning in Challengers he was 449. That said he looked physically to be in pretty good shape. He told the story of being on the practice court at RG with Jack Sock when the Draw came out. He was asked if he wanted to knew who he played. “Nadal” came the reply. Ginepri said he didn’t make another ball in for the rest of the practice after that :).

May 27th, 2014 at 10:11 pm

@Voicemail

I had wondered what happened to Robby. I remember the good showing he made at the USO a few years back. Glad he’s back competing again. Good for him!!

May 27th, 2014 at 10:32 pm

@Colin
Please can you stop correcting people all the time.
1)English spelling rules are barking anyway
2)There are large numbers of ESL speakers on tennis sites. We should be in awe of them, not criticise them
3)Dyslexics have terrible problems distinguishing homophones
4)Remember that quote about what separates Brits and Americans – a common language!
5)And no edit button here, so it’s easy to hit the wrong key
What on earth does it matter as long as we understand each other?

May 28th, 2014 at 1:25 am

Rafa would be mighty pleased with the kind of draw he has been handed out at Rolland Garros. As an icing on the cake, even some of the tricky players in his section of the draw have been eliminated giving him a a very smooth path to the finals. At the other end, Novak might have to struggle to challenge Rafa since he has to encounter some tough players on his way. How this would play out in the finals is tough to tell ? Whether Rafa’s easy path to the finals would be a blessing in disguise or turn out to be a curse will be known only on the D day. As of now, Rafa is enjoying his moments and he knows that he is in really with a chance to accomplish an unprecedented ninth title at Rolland Garros, a feat which has never been accomplished before even in the amateurish days of a Champion only having to play in the finals.

May 28th, 2014 at 1:42 am

@Margot

Great post at 1:25…….My thoughts exactly……what difference does it makes??
Thanks!

May 28th, 2014 at 2:18 am

@OK
Cheers gal :)
Of course it would matter in an academic essay but here, on a multi national tennis site?………..Lol wish there was an appropriate *eyebrow raise* emoticon!

May 28th, 2014 at 2:25 am

Margot @ 1:25am

Well done. Time somebody spelt that out.

As you say, it’s about communication not one-upmanship.

A forum with multi-national members is no place for cheap jibes about language skills let alone spelling errors.

May 28th, 2014 at 2:34 am

@Margot

Uh oh…..read my post over…..should have said what difference does it make…not makes. We do need an edit button and the icon you mentioned would be cool…..or rolling eyes….LOL

Cheers back at cha!

The tourney has had a little upheaval this year….getting interesting!! Good luck to Andy!

May 28th, 2014 at 2:52 am

Pole 6.42pm May 27th thanks and very true lol….

May 28th, 2014 at 5:00 am

Michael please dont keep saying Rafa is a shoo for the final,can we just take it one match at a time,the tournament makes me nervous the way top players are losing so early,Rafa fans will have to stomach enough negativity if it all goes pear shaped for obvious reasons….

May 28th, 2014 at 5:25 am

Sorry Polo not Pole duh,geez talk about spelling errors lol….

May 28th, 2014 at 5:26 am

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Aww! Fed’s girls. Aren’t they cute!

May 28th, 2014 at 6:57 am

Giles theres nothing there sorry….

May 28th, 2014 at 7:14 am

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May 28th, 2014 at 8:04 am

@Giles

His little girls are adorable……they have on sunglasses like Mum!! Can’t wait to see the boys!

May 28th, 2014 at 10:08 am

Thanks Giles the girls are adorable,Mirkas lovely and the girls look more like her now that they are older,Mirka does look tired though,mind you two baby boys and two little girls aint no picnic….

May 28th, 2014 at 10:17 am