Saturday, June 28, 2008 Countdown to Kiefer match http://timesonline.typepad.com/rafael_nadal/2008/06/countdown-to-ki.html Hi everyone Well, I am still jumping and shouting after the football match yesterday. What a match. Don't get me wrong, simply I just love football and I am happy Spain is doing well. We deserve it. But I am also thinking about tomorrow's match against Kiefer. I heard somewhere that someone said it was not very professional for me to have asked the tournament to put my match early so I could watch the football. I didn't ask them to cancel my match. Come on! I only kindly asked if it was possible to schedule me early ... anyway, jokes aside, I am really focused and thinking about tomorrow's match against Nicolas Kiefer, from Germany. May I say that he is a very difficult player, one that I have played twice this year on a different surface (hard). It’s not easy. I am playing well now but still this will be a difficult game. Today the surprise. It rained!!! That brought back memories from last year. I had a practice scheduled for 2pm and had to change it to 4pm. I had arrived to the club at 12.50pm to get ready for the practice. When I left home it was raining so I knew practice would be late so I decided to have lunch at the club - pasta with salmon. I think I have eaten less onsite this year than when I used to go home and have lunch there if it was a day I wasn’t playing. The funny thing today was that some pasta got stuck in my throat ... just like the banana a year ago. My physio helped me and everything is okay but it was very funny. After practice I had to do some a film shoot for something for the NIKE website and the olympics. So it was a busy, late afternoon. It took me over an hour and a half. I always have something on but it’s okay as this way I keep myself busy and the day of the match comes faster. Thanks to all and hope to write tomorrow. Rafa _______________________________________________________ 纳达尔温网博客：下雨勾起回忆 仍旧沉浸足球喜悦中 http://sports.sina.com.cn/t/2008-06-28/21313753167.shtml 新浪体育讯　今天是温网的第六个比赛日，男女单打的第三轮继续进行。赛前，纳达尔也 更新了自己在《泰晤士报》开设的温网专栏。 　　我现在还沉浸在西班牙战胜俄罗斯的喜悦之中。其实我只是非常喜欢足球，并且希望 西班牙能够走到最後。或许有的人会说我为了看足球比赛而把自己的赛事提前，并不是很 正确，但是我并不觉得怎麽样，我想也不会对我接下来的比赛有什麽影响。现在我也在考 虑自己下一场和基弗的比赛，我想这也会是一场艰苦的比赛。我曾经与基弗交手过，可是 每次都不是非常容易；可以说现在我的状态不错，但是我仍然需要好好准备这场艰难的比 赛。 　　温布顿终於下雨了，这也勾起了我去年的回忆，去年我的比赛因为下雨耽误了很多。 我下午两点的训练被迫推迟到了四点，当我离开家的时候，外面就下着雨，我就知道训练 不会进行的很顺利。今天发生了一件有趣的事情，那就是我在吃通心粉的时候卡到了嗓子 ，就好像前一段时间我吃香蕉一样。我的治疗师帮助我解决了这个问题，现在情况都恢复 了正常。 　　训练之後，我为我的赞助商以及奥运会进行了一段拍摄，所以时间在下午的时候稍微 显得紧张一些。我总是有很多的事情要做，但是我觉得这样还不错，在忙碌之中等待下一 场比赛的到来。 　　谢谢你们 拉斐尔 　　(Darcy) --

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