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Rafa gave an interview to CadenaSer show "El Larguero":


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Nadal: "As long as I can, I always want to play in Madrid"


Rafa Nadal arrived yesterday in Madrid and made contact with the Magic Box, where he trained for the first time. Then, he was in the SER with José Ramón de la Morena.


How did you feel while watching the match between Mallorca and Real Madrid?

We saw it at home in Porto Cristo. In the first part of the Mallorca was higher. In the second, collapsed and broke the Real Madrid match. They are my two teams, so, for my feelings, I had a bad feeling and sound at a time. Cristiano Ronaldo had a spectacular day. We talked once, but I personally know a Christian. In tennis I think he would win. I have said Forlan played good tennis.

Were you watching the Real Madrid-Osasuna in the locker room in Rome, with Ferrer?

Yes, it was the second suspension, the longest. Ferrer and I were in the locker room, the physiotherapy room, and I remembered that she had to remain playing the game, I looked for the Sky, where they put it, and we could see 15 minutes of the first half. We saw the 1-2 and 2-2 and then later I heard the result.

Finally, it is already clear to everyone that is here to play the Madrid Masters ...

In Madrid, I always want to play, have always treated me great and I can only be grateful. Better, impossible. Whenever I have nice feelings and final to Ljubicic won in 2005 is one of my most beautiful memories. Now I come in completely different conditions from last year. Then I got the better of the heart than the head and at play here, I made an excess of which there was no need. Not to play here, but by playing with bad knees. But in Madrid always want to play and, while I can, I'll always play.

What about the altitude?

I will not talk much about it, but it is something that is very noticeable and makes of Madrid a different tournament. Bring some slippage to the game of control. The ball flies lower and it shows. For a player like Fernando Verdasco, who is used to play here, comes very well and is an advantage. Besides the fact that Fernando is a great player, of course.

Have you had a very hard during the difficult time of 2009 with injuries, separation from parents, etc?

I always say that we must learn to enjoy suffering, except when the pain limits you to 100%. Then it can be. Worst of 2009 it was losing at Roland Garros or not to play Wimbledon, but to see that you got wrong. Losing affects you greatly, but the other is evil. When the separation of my parents took me back the merger, not because they know, but think they might suffer. They were strange times for all. But I knew in January and kept winning until June, when came the injury. Our relationship together is now excellent.

Do you plan to regain the title at Roland Garros and the number one?

Now, the tournament that I think is Madrid. I go every day. No time frame me. Now defend 600 points. I can leave Madrid number two but number four, although it is difficult. I do not mind being number one, two or three, but be happy playing, something I could not get in those last months of 2009.

Do you think that Sevilla can take the League to Barcelona?

Yes, Sevilla can win at Barcelona, of course. But it will be difficult. The favorite to win is the club.










Nadal, El Stringer: "My parents separated in January until June and I won"


This Friday begins the 1000 Madrid Masters. Last night we visited Rafa Nadal. The Spaniard faces tennis tournament in Spain's capital with the whole world the illusion of a larger scale to retrieve the number 1. The last eleven months to Rafa not been the best of his life. Injuries to his knee, the separation of their parents have been a drag that Rafa is the past. Nadal last night pleaded with Jose Ramon de la Morena.


Did you see the Mallorca-Real Madrid?

"Yes the first part of the Mallorca was higher, but in the second collapsed. Cristiano had a spectacular day"


Do you know Christian?


"I talked to him sometimes.'s Always been very nice. The outcome of the Madrid-Real Mallorca anything was good and bad at once to my feelings"


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"Unfortunately there were only words (laughs)."


"In Madrid people you love so much?


"Actually yes. Whenever I come here I try phenomenal, better impossible. I'm going down the street and people encouraged me. I have nothing but gratitude to Madrid, to his city"


"Last year you said it was a mistake to play in Madrid? What has changed?


"I think the conditions are completely different. Last year everything was going incredibly well. He had won in Australia in Indian Wells final in Rotterdam, champion in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome. And I think coming here was excessive. There was no need to physically come by as the knee. If one is physically fit is a tournament that I'm always going to play. It is a tournament in Spain, is a very important tournament is a tournament on clay and it is in Madrid, where I have always felt great, where the public has always supported me a lot. The 2005 final in Madrid is one of the most beautiful end I've played in my career. For all these reasons is that I always want to play Madrid and therefore I believe that I was wrong, I could the heart to the head "


Do you ever play out of necessity?


"Zero. The tournaments are not a matter of display. The four Grand Slams and the nine Masters 1000 are mandatory and can not fail"


Now you pain?

"There is no elite athlete does not hurt anything. We must learn to enjoy suffering,"



"Last year was a strange summer for you?


"Yes it was. Last summer was long."


Have you been 11 months without winning a tournament?


"You have to go when you win. The people supported me a lot, I have only to thank people for their support. Since I started in 2010 I felt ready to win every tournament in which I participated."


The separation of their parents. Did you recover the cost of that concentration after personal problems?


"Absolutely. I do not know it affected the whole world. It is a change in your life. Our family has been and remains a very close family and is a major change in your life, take your age, especially if you live at home. I want are not your parents and are strange times for all. you see your family often suffers and I suffer from a distance because I'm not at home, and you do not know how things are. No know if what you are telling is what is happening if things are right or wrong. I want my father like my mother. I'm not the point of union between them, because they are phenomenally. More than deconcentrated you need time to assimilate a new situation. But, my parents separated in January until June and I won. Do not get lost in the separation of my parents. Pierdo especially since several injuries chained row. When I'm on the track I think of what I have front. When I'm playing on my rival. One can not always be right, this is reality. It is my eighth year on the circuit and I've been five years without losing the first two and this is very difficult. They are many weeks be the limit, to be one hundred percent mentally. "


Your ultimate tournament at Roland Garros?


"My tournament par excellence is now Madrid. I'm going tournament to tournament. My people have encouraged me a lot in France, but Paris track costs more to have the support."


Did you say Carlos Moya in two months you will again be number one?


"I do not know. I have no time frame. I think I'm in very good line. Since 2010 I started playing well almost all the tournaments I've played. Do not believe in good or bad luck, but I think this year for these months I've been without a win cost me define some games that had defined normal conditions and would be talking about a much better season. I have missed some matches that should have won that I would have changed the score. And Right now I'm number one in the champions race with enough points of differences on the other. And I'm going day by day. I can be number one, but 3 or 4. The important thing for me is to be happy playing , be a hundred percent every time I go to a track "


What are you doing in Madrid?


"I've been to the cinema, theater, play golf. Go to the cinema in Madrid was a strange experience"


"Popularity is nice or it becomes overwhelming?


"I've always gotten along. There are few things more beautiful than to see people love you, that means you're doing the right thing. It is a great personal satisfaction. I have never hidden from anyone, nor do I think ever"


What athlete do you admire?


"I admire Tiger Woods. I love his attitude in the field of GOLF, I think is a winning attitude. I think they have been very unfair to him all the world's press in general"


"After playing tennis what you do best: play golf, football or fishing?


"Playing football


Apart from Federer what other player has impressed you on track?


"Many. Djokovic day that is inspired not let you play"


Who do you see favorite in the Madrid Masters?



"It's a different tournament to height. Height is very noticeable. It makes the control you have on the ground becomes a little control"


Do you think that Sevilla can beat Barca on Saturday?


"Of course he can win, but the favorite is the club"






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(these parts on not on the written transcript of the site) I will do my best to try & translate them but I guess our Spanish Speakers are in for a treat!

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