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Posted by tennisplanet on July 4, 2009
FEDAL FAN
Nadal decides to change his priorities..
The rest of his 2009 schedule: Montreal and then Cincinnati, U.S. Open, Bangkok, China, Shanghai, Paris and London Masters
Revised: Cinci, Montreal, USO, Paris and London are mandatory so he’ll play those instead of the others.
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Roddick4TheWin said
Its about time
Can’t wait to see him back in action! It would be awesome if he came back and wins the US Open and year end Championships!
I’m curious to see what his schedule will look like at the begining of next year. Less CC tourneys, no?
Fedal Fan said
I agree Roddick4TheWin. I think he’ll come back and do just fine
I’m glad he finally decided to “trim” his schedule. Vamos Rafa 
joao said
I will wait and see.
I don’t think it will be that easy for Nadal to come back during the summer. His taken a mighty fall with this injury and mentally it will not be easy for him to get going again.
Roddick4TheWin said
Nadal can do anything. Never count him out.
boxingary said
“Nadal can do anything”
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How about 17 of 17 GS Finals?
[ hey, don't say "anything" if you don't mean it! :-> ]
banti said
Mike is not going to like this one:)
Deep South Girl said
Yup, Nadal can do anything!! Gosh, he is missed this Wimbledon!!
gilly said
For 2009 he is aiming for the USO and YEC. Period.
Next year he will eliminate all non-essentials like Rotterdam, Barcelona, Monte Carlo
Jenny said
I doubt he’ll eliminate Barcelona, it’s his home tourney, Rafa would never live it down in Spain, the man has a Spanish heart! It would be like asking Roger to give up Basel. I suspect he’ll look carefully at the non mandatory hard courts next year given his knee condition.
Dee said
He is still young.But this would be a good solution because of his style of play.
ricky said
I don’t like the way he choses to speak again on the eve of a GS final to which he doesn’t participate. Bad spirit and bad behaviour.
jennifur said
oh puleaze!
Andy said
I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s “bad spirit and bad behavior” but, as it is indeed the second time he has done this, it does make you wonder a bit. Basically three possibilities exist in my view:
a) the timing, on both occasions, is totally coincidental and means absolutely nothing – in this scenario at the very worst Rafa is a bit thoughtless and inconsiderate
b) the timing was not intentionally thought about in any way, but perhaps represents something on a subconscious level (defensive mechanism to potentially losing Number 1…) – in this scenario at the very worst Rafa is a bit jealous
c) the timing was intentionally thought about as a way to screw with Fed’s mind on the eve of the Wimbledon final – in this scenario, at the very worst, Rafa is a poor sportsman
I think (c) is unliklely.
To me, it’s somewhere between (a) and (b) – probably closer to (a)
Blake said
lol, that’s some biased drizzle if ever I saw it.
Try to not show it so much and include an option D: it’s doesn’t freakin matter when he says crap – he wants want to hear from him asap and he does this for them.
Andy said
I responded to this a day ago but for some reason the response got lost in the system.
Anyway, Blake, basically all I said was that your answer kind of falls within my a). Not a big deal, but I think a mere 24 hour delay in Rafa’s announcement would have been nicer.
Having said that, the main point of my post was actually to counter Ricky’s post above.
In other words, we are not in a big disagreement on this one Blakester. Relax! Have a pepsi.
p.s.
Math review from our last battle
6 plus 8 = 14
Oh wait – things have changed — 6 plus 9 = 15
Go over that one hard Blakey
jennifur said
come back now rafa!!!!!!!!! we miss u 2 much!!!!!! well i do anyway, like furrrrrr surrrrre!
jennifur said
rafa will win uso + get career grand slam same yr as fed.
Sol said
Smart move. Finally. Too bad he (or whoever it is who decides these things for him) had to go through this to finally make a change. Makes me think of something Isabel Allende, the author, said: “la experiencia es lo que se obtiene justo despues de que uno la necesita”, for those of you who understand spanish. (sorry I don’t like to translate, too scared of losing something in the translation)
Anonymous said
Will be so happy to have Rafa back in tournaments – I missed you at Wimbledon Rafa!
olivia said
That’s good news. I hope he’ll stick to that revised schedule, because knowing Rafa, he loves playing a lot of matches.
GG said
Sorry to disagree but I sure do not believe Rafa has any chance at all to win the USO.