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Nadal freia para chegar aos Jogos

Menos de um mês para os Jogos Olímpicos, cancelou sua exibição com Djokovic, no Santiago Bernabéu, para curar o joelho e não treinará por 15 dias.

Menos de um mês antes dos Jogos em Londres, dia 27, Rafael Nadal anunciou ontem que não fariaa exibição organizada em 14 de julho, no Santiago Bernabéu com Novak Djokovic, por conta de dores no tendão patelar no joelho forçando a parar seus treinos por 15 dias. Depois de ser eliminado pelo checo Lukas Rosol na segunda rodada de Wimbledon, onde ambas as articulações doíam e o espanhol foi a uma consulta com Angel Ruiz Cotorro, seu médico pessoal e da Federação Espanhola e Mikel Sanchez, especialista que o trata em Vitória. Os médicos recomendaram que o campeão de  11 Grand Slams e defensor do ouro olímpico tivesse um mínimo para se preparar para os Jogos.


Tudo começou em Wimbledon. O jogador foi submetido a dois exames no local do torneio, que já chegou arrastando as dores na primavera, as que o obrigaram a não disputar as semifinais do Masters 1000 de Miami. Nesta ocasião não era o tendão quadrucipital dos joelhos, que deram problemas em outras ocasiões, mas a patela, especialmente do lado esquerdo. Vendo as imagens, e como a dor era suportável, o espanhol foi submetido ao tratamento com medicamentos anti-inflamatórios e máquina de termoterapia, receita que foi repetida. "Em Londres, trabalhou para que a doença não evoluice para o pior", explicou fontes familiarizadas com a condição médica do número dois, "tão pouco melhorou."


"Antes", explicou as mesmas fontes, "pensava-se que Nadal sofria uma tendinit, isso  é, uma inflamação dos tendões. Agora falamos de tendinopatia: o tendão vai se degenerando e o corpo deve regenerar. Alguém que se castuga fisicamente  tanto quanto ele sofre mais nessa direção, então ele recorre à injecção de factores de crescimento. "Nadal injeta esses fatores nos joelhos, que se traduz em uma média de três vezes por ano em Vitória. Cada sessão deve ser seguida por um periodo de repouso, como agora. Há, no entanto, uma diferença: os Jogos estão virando a esquina. Os jogadores vão viajar para Londres em 22 de julho e começará seu treinamento na grama 23. A condição médica de Nadal, de acordo com fontes federativas, não alterou em nenhum desses planos. Ainda contamos com ele.


"Os médicos estuveram olhando meu joelho e me disseram que eu sofro de tendinite no tendão patelar e eu tenho que passar 15 dias em repouso, o que torna impossível jogar com Djokovic como o planejado e anunciado," disse o próprio jogador em comunicado. O Real Madrid ea Fundação Rafa Nadal esperava bater o recorde de participação em uma partida de tênis e chegar aos 80.000 espectadores. E já foram vendidos cerca de 30.000 bilhetes, de entre seis e 25 euros. "Na segunda-feira eu comecei com o tratamento médico e recuperação, a fim também de ser capaz de jocar em Londres e representar a Espanha novamente", acrescentou. "Agora, vou combinas minha recuperação com uma mini férias e voltar a treinar em 15 dias."

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Fotos - Wimbledon 2012

Rafael Nadal x Lukas Rosol 

Vapt Vupt - Vídeos (Wimbledon 2012)

Vídeos - Wimbledon 2012

Treinos 

Vídeos da primeira rodada 

Coletiva de Imprensa - Primeira Rodada (Wimbledon 2012)

Por motivos de força maior nós do Blog RNO informamos que teremos dificuldades de acompanhar Wimbledon. E por conta disso os posts devem demorar e não iremos conseguir traduzir as coletivas. 


Mas isso não significa que abandonaremos o torneio assim, não seremos urgentes mas estaremos por aqui de vez em quando.

R. NADAL/T. Bellucci 7‑6, 6‑2, 6‑3

Q.  What happened in the first few games of that match?

RAFAEL NADAL:  Well, happened that I had the breakpoint in the first game, so I think I played a good first game.  But he had a few chances at the first, and then two great serves in the advantage in the middle to the tee.
Then I played bad game with my serve.  Even I think I have game point for me, or few chances, but I had a few mistakes with my forehand.
And then he hit a fantastic returns in the 3‑0, so he played a great game.  I was lucky to be back, that’s the thing.  I feel lucky after 4‑0 to be able to win the set.


Q.  Thomaz said you don’t have any weakness in your game.  Is that what you think?


RAFAEL NADAL:  Well, I think I have, but thank you for the words of Thomaz, no?
I think today I didn’t play my best match.  I think especially at the first set I played little bit too nervous, little bit not knowing exactly what to do.  My movements were a little bit in defensive way, not in aggressive way.
But I was able to keep winning the first set.  That’s the important thing and the good news.  Then I started to play better.  The second and third set I played better, even if I had a big mistake in the third with 2‑0, 30‑Love to probably close the set with 3‑0.
I felt in that moment I started to hit better the forehand.  That’s the most important thing for me.  And in the beginning I didn’t really had the best feeling with my forehand.
But then I started to feel a little bit better and I was able to hit a few forehands in a row with positive feeling, knowing that I don’t want to miss the ball.  That’s a very important thing, no?
I think the serve worked great almost all the match.  Just the beginning I start with not the best percentage, but I finished well, so I’m happy.


Q.  We know the Olympics are going to be played here as well.  Tell us a little bit about your thoughts about having the Olympics on grass here.


RAFAEL NADAL:  Well, it’s great that we gonna play the Olympics here in Wimbledon.  At the same time, it’s not great that you play in a very important competition on grass the best‑of‑three.  That’s makes the tournament a little bit more crazy.  You know, everybody can win everybody even more than in hard or clay, because playing best‑of‑three the match can be decided in just a few points.
So that’s probably the negative thing.  In every match, you are at the limit.


Q.  Is it crazy for you or a crazy idea in general?


RAFAEL NADAL:  No, I don’t say ‘crazy idea’.  Maybe I don’t have the right word in English.  But is a little bit more difficult to predict what gonna happen.  That’s what I wanted to say.
I think it’s great to have the Olympics here in Wimbledon, but playing best‑of‑three on grass in a very important competition makes the tournament, no, more difficult for everybody because there is no favorites then.


Q.  Last time you went behind so far in a first set was against Soderling a couple years ago.  You came back and went on to win the Championships.  Do you find that sort of start helps you to focus your mind?


RAFAEL NADAL:  Is a completely different feeling, no?  I think against Soderling was in quarterfinals a few years ago.  Here is the first round.  I just played two matches on grass this year before here.  I need time.  I need to play.  That’s an important victory for me.
We’ll see what’s going on in the next match.  I need to keep improving.  That’s what I gonna try.  Going to be a difficult tournament, but I am here to try my best ‑ as I did every year ‑ and hopefully I can play a little bit better in the next round.
The important thing and the best feeling for me is that I improved my game during the match, and that’s important for the practice of tomorrow and the next match.


Q.  Do you find it difficult to change from clay court to grass, and how do you adjust?


RAFAEL NADAL:  I am sure that is difficult, no, especially when you arrive to the grass playing almost every match possible in the last couple of months.  The transition is aggressive one, and sometimes playing as much as I did the last couple of months, you start to have, you know, physical, not problems, but troubles, so you cannot practice as much as you would like to prepare the tournament, no?
But that’s not new for me.  Just accept the situation and try my best in every moment.  In the past, worked well; hopefully this year will be working well another time.


Q.  I am not going to ask you would you want to win tomorrow in EuroCup semifinals, but could you talk a little bit about the Portuguese team and Cristiano Ronaldo?  I know you met him before.


RAFAEL NADAL:  Cristiano is fighting for being the best Player of the Year.  I had the chance to met him a few times.  He’s great.  He’s a winner.  We will be in trouble if he has his best day.  Portugal have a complete team.
Well, but, being a supporter of Spain, you cannot expect to win the semifinals of Euros against an easy opponent.  Is the same that when I am in the semifinals of Roland Garros.  You have a tough opponent in front.
So Spain have one of the toughest opponents possible in front, and hopefully Spain can keep playing the way that we did the last couple of years ‑ almost six years ‑ and be able to be in that final another time.


Q.  Everyone has a greatest rival.  Who would that be for you?  Is this someone you really prefer not to play in the tournament?  If you could sometimes tell us your dream, what should be.


RAFAEL NADAL:  I didn’t understand nothing.  Can you repeat?


Q.  The first question is, everybody has their greatest competitor, rival.  Who would that be for you?  Maybe you’re special and you don’t care.


RAFAEL NADAL:  There is few kind of rivals, no?  You can talk about rivals that you are competing to be in the top positions of the ranking, and the real thing is the rival that I care is Rosol or Dodig that I gonna play day after tomorrow.


Q.  Rosol.


RAFAEL NADAL:  Rosol won already?  So now I care about Rosol.
If you talk about the competitor for the ranking, the rival, I cannot say one because I really don’t feel that I have one.  Disappointing, I have much more than one.


Q.  You haven’t lost in the first week of a major for seven years now.  When you found yourself down in the first set, does something like that give you some confidence that you can come through those early‑round matches even when it’s tough?


RAFAEL NADAL:  I really don’t think about these kind of things when I am on court.  I try to find a solution about the problem that I had in that moment, try to find a way to start playing better.
Is great that I didn’t lost, as you say, in the first week, but that’s going to happen.  I don’t know if here or in the next one, but everybody lose, no?
So just try to keep playing well, focus.  Just, as I tell, I try to think always moment by moment.


Q.  Do you think Germany has a chance against Spain?  Are you scared at all by any German player?  What do you think about the team?


RAFAEL NADAL:  Seriously, you know, I think is not the right question.  I will answer, but is not the right question because you cannot expect to not have chances Germany against Spain.
It’s one of the best teams of the world against another one of the best teams of the world.  Everybody have chances against everybody.  What can I answer you?  Yes, sure they have chances.  Hopefully not, but first thing, tomorrow Germany have to play against Italy and Spain has to play against Portugal.
I don’t know if we’re going to meet in the final.  Maybe it will be for third and fourth.  Hopefully we can play that match and win another time.


Q.  Whether you consider them rivals or not, you, Novak, and Roger have certainly dominated the Grand Slams for the last seven years.  What do you think the biggest reason for that is?


RAFAEL NADAL:  Is difficult to answer this one for me.  Somebody ask me this question a few weeks ago in Roland Garros, and my answer was, I cannot say anything in particular because can sound arrogant what I gonna say.  That’s the real thing.
So I prefer to say that that’s what happened the last couple of years probably because we were very focused, we were playing great, we were very regular players.  So that’s why.  Then the rest of the things, to find arguments why really that happened, I am really not the right one to say it.