Temat: Artykuły o Rafie
...Players don't hit the ball, they commit assault and battery on it. From the first round, competition is harsh and bodies are hurled around. So hard is it to stay fit and consistent that Agassi said: "I didn't think I'd ever see (a Grand Slam) because it seems like the impossible."
But Federer first, and now Nadal, have altered mindsets. Wally Masur, once a top-15 player, says: "I didn't think it was possible, but that thinking has changed." Jason Stoltenberg, Wimbledon semi-finalist in 1996, adds: "It's very, very difficult but definitely possible."
Rafael Nadal is Jimmy Connors with better manners. "In tennis, it's hard to be the same every day," says Masur, to carry to court the same intensity, but he sees in both men. Connors once strode a dressing room after battle attached to a drip, unable to sit down because every part was cramping. Nadal's game has echoes of a similar...
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