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 _______________________________________________________ 納達爾溫網博客：下雨勾起回憶 仍舊沉浸足球喜悅中 http://sports.sina.com.cn/t/2008-06-28/21313753167.shtml 新浪體育訊　今天是溫網的第六個比賽日，男女單打的第三輪繼續進行。賽前，納達爾也 更新了自己在《泰晤士報》開設的溫網專欄。 　　我現在還沉浸在西班牙戰勝俄羅斯的喜悅之中。其實我只是非常喜歡足球，並且希望 西班牙能夠走到最後。或許有的人會說我為了看足球比賽而把自己的賽事提前，並不是很 正確，但是我並不覺得怎麼樣，我想也不會對我接下來的比賽有什麼影響。現在我也在考 慮自己下一場和基弗的比賽，我想這也會是一場艱苦的比賽。我曾經與基弗交手過，可是 每次都不是非常容易；可以說現在我的狀態不錯，但是我仍然需要好好準備這場艱難的比 賽。 　　溫布頓終於下雨了，這也勾起了我去年的回憶，去年我的比賽因為下雨耽誤了很多。 我下午兩點的訓練被迫推遲到了四點，當我離開家的時候，外面就下著雨，我就知道訓練 不會進行的很順利。今天發生了一件有趣的事情，那就是我在吃通心粉的時候卡到了嗓子 ，就好像前一段時間我吃香蕉一樣。我的治療師幫助我解決了這個問題，現在情況都恢復 了正常。 　　訓練之後，我為我的贊助商以及奧運會進行了一段拍攝，所以時間在下午的時候稍微 顯得緊張一些。我總是有很多的事情要做，但是我覺得這樣還不錯，在忙碌之中等待下一 場比賽的到來。 　　謝謝你們 拉斐爾 　　(Darcy) --

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