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This article/news praised Rafa as a great tennis player and a great person (most things we've already known about). They also emphasized not to treat Rafa's coming this time as just another celeb coming to town. They encouraged people/kids to take Rafa as a role model of the great success who still binding with family and family values while following his dream. Having highly achieved at the very young age but is still nice and simple as he used to be. Fame and money have changed some superstars but not Rafa. Finally they concluded that... good looking, nice and talented as Rafa , rare to find this day. So...they expressed their warmest welcome to Thailand for Rafa.
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In this giant local press, they said while being in Hua Hin Rafa's treating within high security all the time , no outsiders included any presses be able to come close.
On Wed, Sep 22 Rafa and his friend went out on the boat to fishing and some said that Rafa'd got the smallest one 555. After that he got back to practice at a tennis court nearby the hotel from 6.30-8.00 pm. Then got back room to rest immediately.
Thu, Sep 23 Rafa's program is to go golfing in the morning and to go the a grapeyard in the afternoon plus go sight-seing on elephant back (traditional toursist attraction in Hua Hin)
Nadal all at sea on fishing trip
World No 1 Rafael Nadal may have hooked three Grand Slam titles this year, but he will never make a career out of fishing.
A day after landing in Thailand for the first time, the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open champion motored two kilometers out to sea on a fishing trip with eight buddies in Hua Hin yesterday morning.
The tennis celebrity reportedly had a good time with rod and reel but returned to shore in the afternoon with the smallest catch.
Back on dry land, Nadal paid a visit to the tennis court to prepare for his debut in the PTT Thailand Open next week. The Spaniard is likely to play a round of golf this morning then stop by a vineyard in the afternoon.
Organizers of the Thailand Open yesterday confirmed the participation of world No 8 Fernando Verdasco, a day after the lefthander broke the news on his Twitter homepage.
However, world No 44 Fernando Gonzalez withdrew from the event, citing knee problems.
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