[訪問]蒙特婁Nadal def. Puerta
R. NADAL /M. Puerta
6-3 6-1
An interview with:
RAFAEL NADAL
THE MODERATOR: Rafa has now held serve 42 consecutive games in the
tournament. A career best. He also records his 63rd match win on the
season. That's the most by any teenager since Andre Agassi who won 63 back
in 1988.
Questions for Rafa.
Q. That was a fine performance. You're getting better and better as the
tournament goes on. Do you feel that?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, I speak every day that I am playing well all the time
in this tournament. I think today is very nice match. I enjoy a lot in
the court. I play very, very well.
I feel a lot comfortable in the court. I think I am playing very, very
well all matches in this week.
Q. Is that because you get used to the light, the balls, the conditions?
Is that why you're improving?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, I say I feel good every day here. I say when I arrive,
I have good feelings every day with the court, with the balls, with all.
I was practicing the first two days before the competition. I feel very
well all the time here.
Q. With everything going so well for you recently, not only this week but
all year, do you pinch yourself at night to make sure you're not dreaming?
(XDXD)
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. Sometimes, you know -- last year I begin very
well the year. I begin the year -- my ranking the last year, the 2004, I
begin the year in 50. After two months, after three months, my ranking is
32. That's very well. I improving a lot. But after I have the injury for
three months and a half, and after the injury I can't play good, I play
very bad. Sometimes you go down and sometimes you are playing unbelievable.
I think all stay here, in the mentality, in the confidence (pointing to his
head). I think I improving. I am improving. I improve a lot this year with
some aspects in my game. I think I play more comfortable with more security
in my serve. That's important because when I go to the return, I can play
with more calm. That is a good improve for me.
This year I feel little bit more tough, more solid, more tough on court.
I don't have lot of mistakes. Unforced errors a little bit always in the
matches. That's another improve for me this year.
Q. A couple of days ago you mentioned that you wished you could play Andre
Agassi before he retired. Yesterday said he hopes he can play you before
you retire. What do you think?
RAFAEL NADAL: I hope. I hope he retire first before me. If I retired
before him, I am totally injury (laughter). He have 35. I am 19. I don't
know...
But I hope we will play. I would love play against Andre one final here.
But I know, I always say for experience, every match is very difficult.
I have very tough semifinal. Mathieu is playing unbelievable. He won
Roddick the first round. He got a lot of confidence. In quarterfinal
and in third round, Mathieu is playing unbelievable. He won 6-1, 6-2;
6-1, 6-2. These results -- (changing to Spanish).
ATP: Those results mean he's playing at an unbelievable level with a lot
of confidence.
Q. How do you feel about the crowd, the fans here? How much does it help
you that they seem to be behind you?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, I say in the interview in the court, in Montreal, I
am very happy. I feel good with the people, the public, unbelievable with
me, support me a lot. That's important for my game, no, because I feel a
little bit more comfortable with the people, with the public. I want to
say thank you very much for all, no?
Q. Do you like Montreal?
RAFAEL NADAL: For now I like a lot the club, the hotel, and the restaurant
near from the hotel (smiling).
I play every day. I don't have so much time for visit the city. But I say
when I was here the first day, if I lost, I go to visit the Montreal. But
I am in semifinal. If I lose tomorrow, I can't, because I go to Cincinnati.
I need to prepare Cincinnati.
I hope. I am young, I hope come here some times, no?
Q. This was the first time you played Puerta since the French Open final.
Can you talk a little about the difference in that game versus this game.
RAFAEL NADAL: Is different moments. I don't know. The final of Grand Slam,
my first final, his first final, that's another atmosphere. Is a little bit
different because we have a lot of pression. I think I have more, more,
more pression. I feel very nervous in the final, all tournament in Roland
Garros. Here I have a little more confidence. In the French, I have
confidence, but I have confidence with a lot of nervous. Here I have
confidence, but not too much nervous -- the normal nervous.
Today, before the match, I speak with my coach. I know is a difficult match
and I need move Puerta because if he's playing like the middle with his
forehand, he play very tough, is very difficult, no? So I begin the match
trying go move the Puerta, play my forehand with his backhand because he
have unbelievable forehand. I think I have a perfect match today for that
tactic.
Q. You haven't lost your serve this week. What makes your serve so
effective?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. Is my first time I am in semifinal and I don't
lost the serve. That's good improve because, you know, the serve is not the
best in my game. I am very happy for that. I think is not for the serve.
Yes, of course, I am improve a little bit the serve, but I am playing very
well with the serve. I change a lot the serve. I go slice or kick. That's
important. And after the serve, I am playing good with my forehand and with
my backhand, no?
Q. You try to change what you do, try not to hit the same serve all the
time, try to move the serve around?
RAFAEL NADAL: Of course, I need change. If I don't serve at 212 kilometer,
210 kilometer, I need change.
Q. Is Tony here?
RAFAEL NADAL: No. Tony is with his family in Mallorca. He have holidays
for Montreal, Cincinnati, because he travel with me a lot. He have three
sons, small boys. He's staying at home. He come for US Open.
Q. Is it different when he is not here? Do you like when he's not here?
Does it make it different?
RAFAEL NADAL: It's okay. Is not the determinant the coach. I am happy with
Tony stay with me. It's okay. This week I am with the coach of Feliciano
Lopez, with Francisco Roig. I have a good feeling with him, a very good
relation. I was with him- Sud America, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Acapulco. I
have a very good relationship with him and he help me so much in my game,
too, no?
Q. We noticed that you sign autographs with your right hand. Are you
right-handed or left-handed?
RAFAEL NADAL: No. I write with the right. I eat with the right. I am right
for all, for all the right. For take, I don't know, forgive me
(fake throwing his phone). Only play tennis with the left.
Q. Why is that?
RAFAEL NADAL: (Throwing his arms in the air.)
I don't know. When I was too much young, I play with two hands, the backhand
like this, and the forehand like this (using two-handed for both). One day
I need choose, and I play with the left. I don't know. In the football, I
play with the left. I was play football at eight years old. I decide play
with the left because...
Q. If you throw with the right, isn't it easier to serve with the right
hand?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes, sometimes I think that. But I don't know. (Speaking
in Spanish.)
ATP: He said that may be the reason why his serve is not the greatest.
RAFAEL NADAL: Now I find the reason (smiling). (XD)
Q. What is your training regimen just before a Grand Slam, two weeks
before? Do you like to play a tournament or do you like to train quietly
with your coach and prepare for a Grand Slam?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don't know. For me is not too much difference. In Australia
I was playing tournament, I play in Auckland, I play in Doha, and I play
very well in Australia. In the French, I stop, practice, come to the French
for play the French. I stop two weeks. I play good, too. So I don't know.
In Wimbledon, I don't play the week before and I don't play very good.
So, you know, is not -- for me is similar. This time I going to stop. I
don't play in New Haven because I play two Masters Series before. Is too
much. I stop one week. But if we have -- if we don't have two Masters Series
now, I'm going to play the week before for prepare. I feel more confidence
if I am playing. If I am playing matches, I feel a little more confidence.
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