Sharapova is removed from the tennis Masters Australia Open
MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA) .- The Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, the current Open champion from Australia, announced on Sunday that you can not defend his crown in the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the season because of discomfort in the shoulder and drag that forced him to stay out of the Olympic tournament and the U.S. Open.
“I am very sorry to announce that this year I will not be able to defend my title in the Open de Australia. My shoulder is behaving very well, but I started training a few weeks ago and am still not at the level I need to compete at the highest level” lamented Sharapova.
Russia expressed its sadness at not being able to play one of his “favorite tournament,” which has the backing of “the best fans in the world.” “I will not lose anything of the tournament and I promise to return next year,” Sharapova compensated.
Russia completed a flawless tournament in its latest edition: he won his third ‘big’ without giving a single set and paved the way for the world held in May. However, the second part of 2008 was an ordeal for Sharapova because of a persistent shoulder injury that still hampers their performance. The last match was played in August in Montreal.
Tournament director Craig Tiley, regretted the absence of a tennis player who has “a legion of fans in Australia.” “I know it has been working against time to overcome his shoulder injury. In the end it has not had time, but hope to see you next year in Melbourne. Maria is always welcome here,” said Tiley.
Nadal interview – Eight years at this level is impossible –
* ‘I have two months without competing and I can catch the rhythm. Monfils played better … won ‘
* ‘The best of 2008? Wimbledon, which meant the match and for all ‘
* ‘The ambition is something we are born, but also will train’
* ‘You can not always play to win. I am happy to be Spanish ‘
Witnessing a match to Rafael Nadal of Spain thousands of miles ends up being a grueling carousel emotions. Win or lose, however, is always pleased to see what this 22-year-old Mallorcan has done for our country to locate on the map as the best ambassadors.
“I do not know very well what we know, these things do not think, but I do know is that the image of the Spanish in the world is good people. I think it’s dear people. I am happy to be Spanish,” Rafa says (to us) or Naddaalll (for rest), the world tennis number one anyway. “I think we are normal people and educated, much more than elsewhere. I travel a lot to see it. I spend amazing things. You get into an elevator and say ‘hello’ or ‘good night’ if there is someone else. In many sites in the world and you answer, or you look at his face. I hate. I always insist. ‘Hello! ” This does not happen in Spain. ”
This tells Nadal in the Persian Gulf, where the start of the season was not too bright for him. In the Qatar Open was settled in the quarter-finals by Gael Monfils. Days before, in the exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi (UAE), also lost to the Briton Andy Murray. On Friday last lifted a trophy, twice in Doha next to Marc Lopez. He takes it in stride, one of his favorite words and certainly the one that best defines it. His rational explanation: being out of competition since last October 31 due to tendinitis. “I do not think that was the beginning of a difficult year. This is normal, and half took two months without competing, and I take it a little rhythm. The only thing on Thursday. Yes, on Thursday not played well against Monfils,” he says in reference andalusia demolisher 6-4 with a double that ended with the Frenchman in less than an hour and a half.
Just a short while after the game, before the international press, and now, during this interview, Nadal seemed calm with a mantra, a carved compass in that sense and helps you navigate through life without drama: “I am totally aware that when I go to play a tournament can win or I can lose. All matches are difficult, and on Thursday Monfils played better than me. Nothing more. I will try to correct some mistakes and that’s it. Furthermore, it is not a tournament that I go much to affect the classification. ”
The important thing is to be practical, lifted after the fall. This is your action plan: to fly to Melbourne on Sunday 11 and trained there all week for the Australia Open, the first Grand Slam of the year: “That itself is an important tournament for your confidence. East of Qatar, the final After all, is not decisive. ” Adds laughing: “But if the same thing happens in a week and a half in Australia will not be just as happy. That does not mean that on Thursday he was happy, no. But what is, you can not always play to win .
In person, Nadal is much bigger than it appears in the distance. Across the table, in the lobby of this hotel Qatari, he was a mole appears as a muscular legs on two towers. As crown, though, face a shy kid. Again laughing: “Until recently I was a child. So perhaps now, when I was about one, makes me more grace if the requesting an autograph or a picture is an older person. A child always comes over. Also If a child is set on you, and you do not either case, beams or rude, you take this guy as a model and you think you’ve done what is normal. ”
In his words shows that legend built around him, that he attaches to the strength of his parents, Sebastian and Ana Maria, and the moral foundation that gave the boy that this is a divo Manacor without airs, a standard rate. He believes this: “I have had a fairly quiet education forever. Mallorca are also very quiet people. I have our feet on the ground. I realize that this is a time of my life. Then everything returns to normal. If one does not fit when you’re up, when you go down less well. We must be clear to you who you are and why this is happening. It lasts for a lifetime. ” Shortly talkative, Nadal elaborates on this point, the longest of the interview: “We need to take in stride what is happening now to assume what will come next. And is that not everyone will want to see, not all world will think that anything you do is fine, or going around the world thanks to laugh, as can happen now. Then you have to live like everyone else. ”
Nadal welcomed the Princes of Asturias after winning Wimbledon. (Photo: AP)
Nadal welcomed the Princes of Asturias after winning Wimbledon. (Photo: AP)
But insists that one has to be very difficult to shield the humility after the magnificent 2008: Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Olympic gold, Prince of Asturias, the best European athletes of the year. And also, of course, to hear a scream torn and spontaneous on the track, as happened in Doha, from a girl who was not even Spanish: “! You quierrrro much, Rafaaaa.” Obstinately replied: “Honestly, I never or almost never stop thinking about me all this. I have my environment where I do my normal life, and I do not put these things. It’s nice to see people and you still want win, but I’m going to tournaments, and I do what I like now. ”
The best of 2008? “Wimbledon, it meant the game and everything,” he said in reference to this epic of seven hours last July and that led him to dethrone Roger Federer. The Prince of Asturias Prize, barely four months later? “Maybe I arrived a little early. It’s a prize if they get a little later it’s like for your career as a culmination of your career. Not be happier that I have arrived in active, but I think that 22 years is a short age for receiving an award like that. ”
What worst of 2008? “The end of the year was hard, had many pains in the knee. When you start to see the body and do not respond well when dried is wrong. In the morning there hurts, it hurts you there. The sport is not elite health. Above all, we, who played from early January to late November. There comes a time that is a fact ending dust. But it is what is, is what has this circuit. We must be there until it can be, and when it can not be more, otherwise. ”
Nadal following day by the Persian Gulf, one has seen, indeed, the requirement. So, what motivates a boy of 22 years in 2008 has won only in prizes, 20 million dollars? Anyone who is number one? “Like everyone else, are now high and low moments. I think it is an illusion to win and be better. I’m number one now, but maybe within two months I am not. Also the simple inertia that leads to follow. ” Is ambition? “The ambition is something we are born, but also is training. I have been playing tennis since the four years, and there have been moments of great effort. When one thinks of all he has done, he concludes that we must continue . Can you imagine the way until 30? “No one knows the time is never one to play, but eight years at this level is impossible! And when it is no longer at this level, people will no longer be so over you.”
Here in the Middle East, one wonders where lies more strongly that inner strength that allows a boy so young to face challenges as great. “You do not have to watch it or read the press or what others say, the pressure you have to put yourself. I’m happy with myself, and I’m happy with what I do. I am fortunate to work in what I like, not something that everybody can say. Moreover, stress, and that lucky twice. ”
The price to pay for the privilege: “There are times when a lack of back home, being with family on the couch at night watching a movie with your sister, your parents. Spend many nights alone room but I was blessed that in Spain there are many players on the circuit and often dined together, we talk, we see football matches. That helps a lot. ”
As corroborating this idea of family togetherness, the legend ‘nadaliana’ interview in which he is alone, interrupted several calls from home. He replied, in Majorca, affectionate, not irritated by the courts involved. In the Gulf, no one would have overlooked the change of ‘look’ of Nadal has abandoned his sleeveless shirt and trousers with a fisherman and a full-pole ’shorts’ shorter, more in keeping with the traditional label tennis. Is the principle of a more mature Nadal? “A piece of cloth more or less do not make the person. What is important is inside.”
Djokovic better than Del Potro
Djokovic win against Del Potro at the first round at Doha.He beat Del Potro 2:0 .
