“I was very happy about my level in those two sets,” Nadal said. “I lost both, but I was ready to win both, too. I was a break up in both sets, I think. Maybe the only mistake I had in that moment was to stay a little bit more calm. And that confidence I have now because I won a lot of matches in the last few months.”
Murray's BBC Blog
Roger's defeat doesn't affect how I view the tournament as a whole anyway; it doesn't change anything unless I can win against Rafa and I'm really not looking past that match - I'm playing the number one player in the world.
I've known Rafa for a long time as I trained in Spain when I was younger and met him quite a few times out there.
I think I was about 13 years old the first time I actually saw him play, which would have been in one of the Summer Cup junior tournaments where you compete with all the other European nations.
We played a lot of the same tournaments when we were growing up but he was older and always ahead of me, and he was well and truly on the Tour by the time he was 16 or 17.
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