IM CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!

No.32 morituri, by 'we' I do mean Nadals fans­ in general, although I would stop short of calling us a­ 'brigade', that would be totally O.T.T, so why­ the aggressive post? I'm showing my support for my­ favourite player which I am entitled to do, as you do­ too by referring to 'King Federer'. Nothing­ wrong with that at all is there? I'm not sure why­ you have taken exception to my post apart from the fact­ that I am a Nadal fan.

Yeah...Rafa will destroy them next year!

hee guy cant u see what am seeing about nadal that he­ is not actually playing is real game. if you will­ remember what happened in Australian open when nadal­ beat federer in the final to win the cup, federer cried­ like baby and say in quote "Oh God This GUY is­ killing me" Ever since then nadal purposed in his­ heart that he is not to win any game this year in­ order to give federer a chance to be the best player of­ all time. just think about this. give nadal next season­ and see the real him.

Well, what is happening to nadal now could as well­ happen to anybody, for those who are against should­ hold ur peace and let see how next season goes but i­ belt you is coming with a full force. nadal i pray u­ come back soon and put this men to shame.

Soderling now have 2 solid matches back to back win­ against Nadal. No one can take that confidence away­ from him. Its not easy mentally for Nadal knowing that­ he is against the person who crushes him on his own­ turf. Soderling may not able to beat the other top­ players but he knows he can beat Nadal. Nadal will­ always have this fear lingering in him . Good Job­ Soderling.. All the best Nadal on your next match.

No.33 Don't be so positive, what do you mean­ "we" ? What are you the Nadal Brigade ? Nadal­ will always be remembered as a great player even he­ stopped playing now but history always teaches and if­ you look players have dips and come back or have dips­ and start fading, it's life. When your main assets­ is your physical strentght, you are in trouble if you­ cannot boss your opponents like he used to. However, ­ it won't take away the fact that he's the only­ player who managed to really rattle legendary King­ Federer. That in itself has been a great feat.

fork u nadal

No.32 fanrafa don't be so negative!! We need to­ stay positive!!

the future doesn't look good for Nadal especially­ on hardcourts, defending AO title seems almost­ impossible...

no.11,who the hell is talking about Rafa's injuries­ here? Did Rafa say himself he's injured right now?­ He's probably talking about his year because the­ journalists constantly ask about it. Soderling deserved­ to win it,and Rafa didn't. He also says the same­ thing. So,people do give Soderling credit,get real.

nice one pk161976 and of course all who blog here are­ more than welcome will post the dates and address after­ the davis cup final.

Rafa will not recover completely from his problems.­ When Fed is not in a condition to be No1 Djokovic and­ Murray will be the succesors

Here we go again - the same old arguments. At least­ there aren’t too many insults - yet. I think it’s best­ to take whatever the press spouts out with a pinch of­ salt. In Eurosport’s cased, I’m thinking a dose of­ salts, or at least the results of… if you know what I­ mean. They ask the same old questions and print the­ same old answers. I prefer to let the game speak for­ itself. I’m enjoying this tournament - I think it’s­ quite open this year. No idea who is going to win, but­ then if we could predict the future, we’d all be­ winning the lottery.

Here we go again - the same old arguments. At least­ there aren’t too many insults - yet. I think it’s best­ to take whatever the press spouts out with a pinch of­ salt. In Eurosport’s cased, I’m thinking a dose of­ salts, or at least the results of… if you know what I­ mean. They ask the same old questions and print the­ same answers. I prefer to let the game speak for­ itself. I’m enjoying this tournament - I thinks it’s­ quite open this year. No idea who is going to win, but­ then if we could predict the future, we’d all be­ winning the lottery.

Spot on no.20 Bali, maha re: Rafas lack of confidence­ against Soderling (and before anyone starts, I take­ NOTHING away from Robin with his win, these matches are­ there to be won and he did it twice), I think Soderling­ could definately turn out to be Rafas bogey player.­ Rafa didn't just lose his title at RG he lost face­ too and the guy is obviously still scarred by it, give­ him a break!

Rafa will and should play Davis Cup for Spain and for­ him. Best of 5 set wins will prepare Rafa to defend­ upcoming Aussie Open, also will boost his wavering­ confidence.
After DC, he really needs to work on heavy­ top spins for effective flat heavy shots if he were to­ prevail on hard or clay. Vamos !!

May be a little confidence in Nadal's game but I­ see more of a game strategy against people like­ Soderling and Del Potro. Unlike Federer and other who­ struggle with Nadal's top spins, those tall guys­ receive his top spins exactly where they like and that­ makes life very difficult for Nadal.
It's hard work­ for Nadal to beat a Soderling playing 100% on any­ surface.

listen up everybody. ralph is giving a party ib his new­ house. sorry 'bout that, ajpbolton...good, sincere­ post, Jacky.

You're right "LogicSurvives" that­ Nadal's mental strength surfaced a few times in the­ last tournament (esp. Almagro!) but it seems it is not­ 100% there, because I think what happened with­ Soderling at the French must have shaken him up real­ bad. Also, his mental strength against non-top-10­ players is one thing, but it won't work too well on­ a more confident player (e.g. Djoko, Davydenko on a­ good day, and Soderling y/day who had nothing to lose­ and was confident he had beaten Nadal on CLAY for­ God's sake!)