G’bye Rafa
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- September
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The U.S. Open remains a mystery for Rafael Nadal, who lost in four sets very early this morning to fellow countryman David Ferrer, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 6-2. One thing is abundantly clear: The tournament will miss him. The weekend, my friends, is finished.
This match ended so late that it didn’t make any editions of The Journal News, and we can get something in up until about 2 a.m. I find it just incredible that these guys can play a sport at a high level until that hour, but they did tonight and Ferrer was simply fantastic.
I filed a quick story for “LoHud.com”:http://www.lohud.com about the match. I saw most of it outside in Ashe with Harold and we couldn’t believe how good Ferrer was. At 25, maybe he can still be a top-10 player. He sure looked good enough.
Nadal was not himself, no doubt. But he hit enough incredible shots and is so good that he would’ve beaten most men tonight.
He called for a trainer to take care of a finger issue and didn’t go after certain balls, which makes you think his knee was suspect. Still, he wouldn’t talk about it afterward…another reason I consider him one of the most stand-up players in tennis.
Serena he is not.
(This is cleaned up a bit): “I speak a lot about my physical (condition) all week,” Nadal said. “so I prefer not to speak about my body right now because if I say something about my body someone will think it’s an excuse. So I don’t want to (give) any excuses. He played very good and he beat me. Maybe another day we can speak about the injuries.”
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on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 2:33 am by Josh Thomson.
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