After all the denial in the tennis world of Nadal and Shakira as a couple, we found Shakira’s music video featuring Rafael Nadal, Gypsy. The song is not bad at all, however; Rafa’s acting skills need to be tuned up. The former number one is side by side with Shakira looking like they are happy and enjoying their time together. Guess the reports are wrong. Enjoy!
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The cat is out of the bag for Nadal and Shakira
Monday, March 1st, 2010We were very wrong…!
Monday, February 1st, 2010Sorry folks, we were very wrong with our 2010 Australian Open Tennis Championships final predictions. We had our dollars (figuratively speaking) on Andy Murray and Justine Henin to win over the weekend. Obviously we didn’t really see that the tennis veterans were going to clean up rather quickly, that had to have been the fastest grand slam final in history. Both finals were straight set wins over their opponents. Yeesh. Well, we would like to congratulate Roger Federer and Serena Williams for their triumphant wins at the Australian Open!
In other news…here are the new top 10 professional tennis rankings:
Men -
- Roger Federer
- Novak Djokovic
- Andy Murray
- Rafael Nadal
- Juan Martin Del Potro
- Mikolay Davydenko
- Andy Roddick
- Robin Soderling
- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
- Marin Cilic
Women-
- Serena Williams
- Dinara Safina
- Caroline Wozniacki
- Svetlana Kuznetsova
- Venus Williams
- Victoria Azarenka
- Elena Dementieva
- Jelena Jankovic
- Agnieszka Radwanska
- Na Li* First Chinese woman to enter the top 10 in tennis history.
Adios Nadal.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010In the quarterfinals of the Aussie open where Rafael Nadal met Andy Murray, we were set to have a marathon match. In the opening set, each player was looking in good form until Murray broke Nadal twice in the set and eventually ran with it, 6-3. In the second set, Nadal seemed to come alive like he usually does, holding serve and ripping forehands cross court and blistering backhand down the line. At 3-2 (Nadal leading), play was suspended for Australia Day fireworks display. When play resumed, Nadal broke Murray’s serve and was up 4-2. Murray broke right back and leveled the set at 4 all. The set eventually went onto a tie break where Nadal’s momentum seemed to slow down quite a bit; Murray took the second set tie break 7-2.
The third set seemed to start normally, until Nadal was on serve in the second game where she chased down a backhand cross court from Murray and it look as though he tweaked his right knee. Immediately after the next point, Nadal called for a trainer and took a medical time out. As we all know, the end of the 2009 tennis season for Nadal was rather bleak since he had been suffering from tendinitis in both his knees. He lost in the semi’s at the French and withdrew from the Wimbledon tennis championships at the Old England Club, where he was to defend his title from 2008. After the medical timeout, Nadal had to finish out his service game where he was at 15 all. He was broken and was behind 0-3, as the players changed over, Nadal met Murray at the net and retired. Game, set, match.
With Nadal in such poor physical condition, why is he even playing? He should obviously be resting his knees and let his body do the healing. Nadal has always been known for his grinding constant running, sliding, and jumping; however, he just could not go the distance this time around. We hope Nadal does recover from this tournament, since he’s such a spectacle to watch on the tennis court.
Vamos Rafa!