[訪問]納豆 第一輪
THE MODERATOR: Questions in English or French.
Q. How did it feel your first time playing at Roland Garros? What
was it like for you?
RAFAEL NADAL: I feel good. (Switching into Spanish) I feel fine. It's
not the best match I've played in recent times. Of course, when you
play at a Grand Slam tournament, you're under more stress. Well, the
important thing, of course, is to win and to go on to the next round
and then to play better.
(In English.) I feel good. I don't play my best match today. I only
hope improve for after tomorrow, no? I going to practice tomorrow and
I will try improve my tennis.
Q. How is the finger? You had a bad finger in Roma, a cut and a
blister. How is that?
RAFAEL NADAL: Better.
Q. Better?
RAFAEL NADAL: Better.
Q. Doesn't hurt, no problem?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, no problem. Is not closed.
Q. Poco problem?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, is not totally closed, but I feel better.
Q. If all goes to plan, I think you'll play Gasquet in the third
round. Are you looking forward to that? Are you excited about playing
him again?
RAFAEL NADAL: So I don't know, no? I play after tomorrow against
Malisse. Gasquet won today? He play after, so he need won matches. I
need only one more. I don't know, I only think about the next match.
I don't think about the other matches.
Q. What is most difficult about learning to speak English? What do you
find the most difficult? What do you enjoy?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. (In Spanish.) The tenses are very difficult,
the verbs. It's very difficult for me to master the tenses in English. (XD加油)
Q. Could you talk about the atmosphere out there in that court? Did
playing in this tournament meet your expectations, what you thought
it might be like?
RAFAEL NADAL: (In English.) Yes, it's good atmosphere. Lot of people
in the court. I feel good, no? I am happy because is my first French
Open. I want play my best tennis here, but is not easy. I can't play
very well every match. I need improve a lot my tennis for next days.
Q. Where specifically do you feel you need to improve your tennis?
RAFAEL NADAL: I need a little bit more confidence in the shots. I
think the ball is a little bit strange. It's moving a little. And
then it adapt, adapt the court, adapt the ball. So after I have a
little bit more confidence in the shots, no?
Q. Does it seem very strange, you grow up in Spain, and Roland Garros
is the big tournament, then you play Australian Open, you play Wimbledon,
you play US Open, then the last one you play is Roland Garros? Seems
a bit funny this would be the last one. Usually for a Spanish player
it would be the first one. I know funny circumstances, but still a bit
of a surprise?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, but I have injury the last two years, have bad luck.
This year is my first French Open. And today I can play my first match,
and I happy for that, no?
(In Spanish.) Don't laugh, because then I won't try. I'm trying to
speak English to make English speakers happy.
THE MODERATOR: Questions in Spanish.
Q. You're talking as though this were just an extra match, as though this
match had nothing special. You're playing in Roland Garros. You seem to take
that as nothing special.
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, no, I was a little bit more nervous than usual. I felt
maybe a little insecure. You know, it is another match. You know, there
are other players, Carlos Moya, that I've been speaking to. They say
they felt the same way. That really provides reassurance.
My idea was really to look at this as one more match, with nothing
really special about it. I played another Grand Slam tournaments,
Wimbledon and so on. Well, maybe it isn't that special.
Q. How do you feel about seeing so many people, even during training
and practice?
RAFAEL NADAL: I'm very pleased that people take so much interest in
me thanks to the crowd. It provides motivation to win more matches.
I'm told I'm a favorite at the press conferences, and that's bothering
because sometimes I tend to believe that and it puts pressure. It's
better to play when you're not under pressure, just thinking about
the match.
I think it's easier when you win to win after that.
Q. You've been compared to Boris Becker. What do you think?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, you keep telling me that. I don't think I should
be favorite the way I played today. I'm a player who won the last
tournaments on clay. I'm 18 years old. But about being a favorite,
well, no, I don't think I've ever really been a favorite. Federer in
Wimbledon maybe was a favorite. But on clay courts, everything is
very open. You can't really say there's a favorite player.
Thank you for the comparison with Becker.
Q. Do you know Malisse? Do you know him well?
RAFAEL NADAL: No. I played with him second round of Monte?Carlo. I
know he's a dangerous player. I know he's very aggressive. I know
that he'll try to defeat me. I'll try to make sure he doesn't dominate
the game.
Q. You know he was suspended for four weeks?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yeah, I read about that yesterday.
Q. You only found out yesterday.
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, I found out he was expelled from Miami, that he
got a fine. I only found out yesterday he had been suspended for four
weeks.
Q. This was your debut in France. What is your aim?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, you know, to go to the end. Today was a difficult
player. He was trying not to let me get my own pace. Very often I had
to go to the net. I was a bit nervous because it was the first match.
You know, that's typical, isn't it, with your first match wherever
you're playing.
Sometimes he was playing short shots. I wasn't feeling that confident.
In the second set, things got a little bit complicated for me. But
the first set went fine. In the third set, again, I was dominating.
Of course, I felt less nervous in the third set because I really had
an advantage.
Q. How did you feel about your opponent? The second set was tricky.
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes. Anything could have happened in the second set.
He was leading 3-1 in the tiebreak. Of course, anything could have
happened at that point in time during the match. He's a difficult
player. His style I find difficult. He doesn't go to the net. I
played with him last year at Indian Wells. He'd been playing behind
the baseline. Today he played differently. He was being a little more
aggressive.
Q. There are lots of Spaniards in Paris. When you go and have a beer
at the nighttime, it's a real party, isn't it? 19 Spaniards.
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, no. The 19 Spaniards aren't all in the same hotel.
This is something that happens everywhere in the world. It's easier if
you have a fellow countryman.
Q. Who do you talk more to?
RAFAEL NADAL: I get along with all the Spaniards. Moya, Feliciano,
those are the ones I talk to most.
Q. Are you worried about the fact that your next opponents will also
change the style of their game when they play against you? Everybody
thinks you're the favorite, so people try to change their tennis.
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, it's both positive and negative. It's positive
because if they're going to change the way they play, they might not
play as well, as though if I were trying to change my style and not
play from the baseline. I'm not going to improve my game if I change
my style maybe. I don't know.
Today from the baseline I didn't have that many options, so that's why
I tried to go to the net. But Malisse, well, he might also change his
style. I don't know. But whatever happens, everybody tries to play as
best as possible. If he tries to play in an aggressive way, that's
what he'll do. If he tries to stick to his normal game, then that's
probably what he's going to do because you usually play better when
you stick to your style.
In any case, I'm going to play my own game, not try to make any mistakes,
no faults, try to dominate.
Q. Football. What do you think about Mallorca's miraculous match? Did
you watch it?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, it was an incredible match. About a month ago, I
thought this would be absolutely impossible. Now I'm very happy really
because we won against Levante. We played against Villarreal. It really
has been a major success.
Q. (No microphone.)
RAFAEL NADAL: A month ago I thought it was impossible. Now Mallorca
is well placed because we'll play champions against Levante. It's a
home match. Normally Villarreal should win.
Q. Between Mallorca and Madrid?
RAFAEL NADAL: Mallorca.
Q. Back to tennis.
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, that's better.
Q. You've had a rest. That's been useful, hasn't it? Or did it make
you nervous?
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, both really. It's positive, but it's maybe a little
negative also because you haven't been playing for a while, so that
makes you sort of nervous. You're afraid you might not play as well
as you played before. After Miami, the rest was good. I didn't play
maybe the first matches very well, but then I played better. Now the
feeling is maybe the same. First match, I find it difficult to find
my pace, and that's natural.
When the important matches arrive, you need to be a hundred percent.
It's important to win the first matches, even if you don't play in a
spectacular way.
Q. Are you afraid of getting tired physically if you have to play a
second week? For example, today you almost lost a set. You know when
you lose a set, you have to pay for it physically. You're more tired
later.
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, I don't really want to think about the second week.
I'm going to play one match at a time. I don't really want to think
about what's going to happen in the second week. That's all very
theoretical. There's no point thinking about whether you're going to
play a one-and-a-half-hour match or a six-hour match. You have to
take it one match at a time. That's what I've always done. All my
life I've thought about the next match and not to look ahead of that.
Q. You're going to celebrate your birthday in Paris.
RAFAEL NADAL: Well, it's the day of the semifinal. I might be fishing
in Mallorca. But I hope I'll be here in Paris to celebrate my birthday.
I might be on holiday, but we shall see.
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