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Rafa Nadal with basque pelota team during a visit yesterday in Galarreta.You can view these images here as a SLIDESHOW or in my ALBUM
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Rafa Nadal visited Galarreta and Getaria
The tennis player from Manacor visited Galarreta yesterday, where he saw Zeberio and Ezkurra rehearse. The speed and bounce of the ball dazzled the recent winner of Wimbledon
Maialen, Koteto Ezkurra's daughter, age 9, came reluctantly to Galarreta. His father had asked h tero accompany him to training. She did not want to go. Preferred to stay in Doneztebe. Finally he convinced her by promising her a surprise.
Maialen played between the seats with her cousin Elena, goddaughter of Koteto, when she opened the back door of the gable and a young guy appeared dressed in white T-shirt and beige Capri pants. "Nadal!" Maialen said to Helen. They looked incredulous. But yes, it was Rafa Nadal, the same as seen on TV....
Maialen and Elena ran toward the court and they began to understand why they were told to bring their cameras and a notepad. However, they had to wait. They needed someone to approach the tennis player and Koteto practiced next to Patxi Zeberio, Iñaki Gaztelu and Endika Barrenetxea.
Maialen's eyes sparkled. Neither blinked. Finally, Ezkurra finished practicing she found the time to visit her father first and then Nadal. Shee took photos and Manacori, lovely with children, even gave her a kiss....
"Who you expected was the surprise?", we ask her. "Aimar Olaizola". Clearly, like they had told her it was someone who is on television a lot.
Koteto asked his daughter to take the pictures because he was going to eat with Rafa. Maialen did not agree: "No, no. I have to show him pictures of the amatxi (?) and of my friends.
Also two nephews of ose Mari Barrenetxea, one of the new entrepreneurs of Galarreta, had the opportunity to see him in flesh and bone. "They are Rafa fanatics and as I told them he was coming, there was no way to hold them at home."
From Vitoria to Galarreta
Rafa Nadal took advantage of his stay yesterday at Vitoria, where Dr. Mikel Sanchez cares for his knees, to visit guipuzcoano friends and, incidentally, satisfy his curiosity to see them play live lift, even in training. "Since I've been here, I wanted to visit my friends and how is this in truth."
"The ball goes quickly," he said upon entering a Galarreta. "I have seen play on TV many times and I wanted to check in live. The sensation of speed is much greater than on television. I am struck by how the ball jumps up."
Then he commented on the lifts that he does not understand how "you can hit so fast to that stone." Joxean Agerre explained to him where taken out, you have to put the ball between four and seven to be good, the ball weighs 130 grams, the effects that take ... "The court seems narrow to me," he said. "Because it is long ', adds Agerre, who noted that the pediment tennis balls are used to deliver ballots to the bettors....
Nadal had asked to the officials of Galarreta to avoid claiming the stairs. For that reason we opened the front door next to the wall of the rebound. "I'm sore after the infiltration," he confessed. He could hardly bend over. He received two sessions of plasma in the knees. He wore a patch on each.
He put on a ski lift. He put it in his left hand, but Agerre warned him that "it is for the right one." He tried to climb the ball gently. He wanted to drop a ball, but avoided excesses for the care to be provided to his knees.
He is very interested in the project that has been launched Oriamendi in Galarreta. In fact, already works with new entrepreneurs. Babolat, the brand of his racquet, he saw is the ski since it has resumed activity in Galarreta.
The Manacori rests after his victory at Wimbledon and is scheduled to reappear in the Toronto Masters 1000 - "I believe that starts on August 9" - in order to be at his best for the Open, his next big target.
He had the opportunity to meet, Patxi Ezkurra and Koteto Zeberio, two of the figures in the field. "I've been told they are two of the best," he said.
By mid afternoon, Rafa Nadal, who was accompanied by his father Sebastian, displaced to Hondarribia take a flight to Barajas airport. At twelve o'clock at night flew to South Africa, but now plans to make a stop at Victoria Falls. Tomorrow in Johannesburg to attend the final of the soccer World Cup between Holland and Spain.
"What Spain is going to doing the final? Win. I have contacted several of the players and talk to them. If I have given advice on how to win a final? They do not need me to advise them on anything "
Rafa Nadal, a phenomenon of world sport, he knew the rejuvenated a pediment Galarreta facilities that will return safely. Nadal said he has intentions to return to Galarreta and see them in action during a game. He also wants to take off the corner to try to really lift when his physical condition permits.
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