como já não posso mais ouvir falar do cr7, falemos de algo verdadeiramente importante: nadal

para aguçar o apetite: as mehores partes de um fabuloso artigo na time.

...Rallying with Nadal, says former Top 10 player turned coach
Brad Gilbert, "is an education in pain."

...Nadal's shot rotates at an average of 3,200 times a minute. Andre Agassi, one of the game's great shotmakers, generated 1,900 rotations per minute in his prime, and current world No. 2 Roger Federer, whose forehand is considered among the game's best, generates 2,700.

...Ask his trainer, Rafael Maymo, what parts of Nadal's body are under strain when he plays, and he answers: "Shoulder, feet, legs and back. Oh wait, that's every part."
Sampras is even more direct: [Nadal] puts so much effort into each point that eventually something will break."

...Is his coach encouraging Nadal to mimic Federer? "No, Federer is too good," says Toni. "Rafael must play like himself but better, [less spin], quicker points." But how can Federer be too good when Rafael is ranked No. 1? "There is a difference between who is better and who knows more," says Toni. "Better now is Rafael, he is No. 1 in the ranking. But who has the best game? Federer."

...as Nadal puts it, "I've always liked the competition more than the tennis."