RAFAEL NADAL VS. ROGER FEDERER AUSTRALIAN OPEN '09 TIME USA 3:30 A.M. LIVE FEBRUARY 1

Final: Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer
Sunday
February 1, 2009
Live 3:30 a.m. USA EST - ESPN2
That means Saturday night into Sunday here in the USA

Reair of Mens' Singles Final AO '09
Sunday, February 1 at 3:00 p.m.

Source:
sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnGuide

www.australianopen.com - schedule

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THE ORIGINAL FORUM FOR RAFAEL NADAL
FROM HIS WEBSITE:
http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=84197

Rafa - Semi Final AO '09
Photo credit: Mark Dadswell - Getty Images

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Live Streaming of Rod Laver Arena

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Australian Open AO radio

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TENNIS AS ART - RAFAEL NADAL HAS INSPIRED

There has been match after match, when I have watched Rafael Nadal not only lift his own game, but his opponent's game has been lifted to a place never before seen. Rafa seems to help it all unfold in front of our eyes. Tennis has transcended just sport.

Australian Open '09
Semi-final
January 30, 2009

Rafa Vs. Fernando

Was it a tennis match?

May...be.

Maybe

part bull match without the bulls.

It seemed to have blood-letting,

Heart drove the body,

Intuitive decisions

transcended what we think of as a tennis match.

Two Spanish Bulls

fighting

on a tennis court.

Maybe,

it was tennis,

but

maybe it was more.

It was also a dance,

a dance unscripted,

only to be improvised

by two choreographers

who made tennis art today.

It lifted the crowd out of their seats

It lifted our spirits.

This match

produced tennis as the champion

with two stars

baring their spirits for all the world to see.

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BREATHTAKING TENNIS - VERDASCO PLAYED SUPERB TENNIS - NADAL WON THE MATCH

6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4

Did you see the semi-final match at the Australian Open '09 between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco?

Outstanding.

Photo credit: Ezra Shaw - Getty Images

Screen Cap by Mary of Rafael Nadal Forum

Rafa reacts after winning the second set of Semi-Final
AO '09

Photo credits: Quinn Rooney - Getty Images

Photo credits: Mark Kolbe - Getty Images

Above photo credits: Mark Dadswell - Getty Images


The longest Australian Open Men's Match in history ~
an exhausting 5 hours 14 minutes
and Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco,
both of Spain received multi standing ovations.

Statistics of the Match

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My Favorite Moment is Rafa's One Hand Reaction after winning this point
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and in case the above one gets deleted again:
My Favorite Moment is Rafa's One Hand Reaction after winning this point
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One Point during Semi-Final Match
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10:52 of the Semi-Final, including the ending through match point - German commentating

OZ: The Dual Goes Down Under - Read the article

Nadal rises Down Under in 5-hour semi; Roger next

By JOHN PYE, AP Sports Writer John Pye, Ap Sports Writer – Fri Jan 30, 5:31 pm ET

MELBOURNE, Australia – After five arduous hours, Rafael Nadal couldn't hold back the tears when he pulled within a point of making the Australian Open final.

Yet he managed to compose himself and held off Fernando Verdasco in five sets. Verdasco double-faulted after saving two match points, and Nadal won 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (1), 6-4 in the longest match in the tournament's history. Nadal flopped on back — exhausted and elated — after a match few expected to go long.

The 5-hour, 14-minute semifinal between the Spanish left-handers started at dusk Friday and ended at 1:07 a.m. Saturday.

The top-ranked Nadal advanced to another final against Roger Federer, who is bidding to equal Pete Sampras' record 14 Grand Slam singles titles.

"Today was, yeah, one of these matches you going to remember long time, no?" Nadal said. "Well, the emotion was big."

Especially when the score got to love-40 in the last game.

"I start to cry. ... too much tension," he said.

Read the full article

Photo credit: Lucas Dawson ~ Getty Images

After the match
Above photo credits: Clive Brunskill - Getty Images

Rafael Nadal in the AO '09 Semi-Final
Above photo credits: Cameron Spencer - Getty Images

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Rafa and Fernando after the match
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Slideshow from photos of Semi-Final
between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco
January 30, 2009 Australian Open
Photo credits - Getty Images photographers:
Cameron Spencer, Clive Brunskill,
Dita Alangkara, Ezra Shaw,
Lucas Dawson, Mark Dadswell,
Mark Kolbe, Quinn Rooney and unknown

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UPDATE:

Final: Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer
Sunday
February 1, 2009
Live 3:30 a.m. USA EST - ESpN2
That means Saturday night into Sunday here in the USA

Reair of Mens' Singles Final AO '09
Sunday, February 1 at 3:00 p.m.

Source:
sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnGuide

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Live Streaming of Rod Laver Arena

These work on my MAC and on PC as well

Index for matches' live streaming links:
http://atdhe.net/index.html

www.channelsurfing.net
once there scroll down until you find Australian Open - Rod Laver Arena

Australian Open draws

Tennis Talk's Live Score
and
Link to Live AO '09 Radio Play by Play

Australian Open AO radio

Links to pictures of the match:

www.zimbio.com/pictures

www.activeboard.com/forums

The Forum that used to be at Rafael Nadal's website
can be found at: www.activeboard.com/forum

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GERARD BUTLER MAKES ME FEEL GOOD

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Rocknrolla interview with Gerard Butler and an Apology for Irish Accent in P.S. I Love You
This is a must-see interview. It is going to be a vintage interview one day.
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P.S. I Love You Fan Video
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The song is "Arms of a Woman".
The singer is Amos Lee.

I have ordered the dvd of Rocknrolla through interlibrary loan. Here in the state of Rhode Island, every library in the state is in the same system and we can order anything from any library to come to our local library of choice. I am in line for it - seems there a two people in front of me.

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gerard butler in his element as actor

gerard butler in that class of actors who transcend...

gerard butler fun

jury gem not to be missed if you like...

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GerardButlerGlobalFans.com - A Fan Forum

www.gerardbutler.net - A Source for News of Gerard Butler's Career

www.gerard-butler.net/Gallery of Pictures


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CHILDREN FREE TO WRITE POETRY

Today, I read a very raw letter that my son wrote a long time ago. It is good to have. It wasn’t written to me, but to his birth mother. I myself write from a raw place many times. I find it healing and a source for bringing clarity and richness to my understanding.

I have lots of books. But most of them I have never read. Several weeks ago, I began to finally use some exercise equipment that I bought years ago. It is upstairs, although I live mainly on the first floor of my home. I have noticed that there are places in my own home where I feel more comfortable going than others. So now I have found a reason to venture to a place in my house every day, that has a far away feeling to it. The equipment is surrounded by nine shelves of books. When I need a breathing break while doing the aerobic exercise, I reach for a book and read for a short while. Recently I picked up book that has poetry by children in it.

Below I have put the foreword to the book. It is a book for teachers and parents to understand how to nurture creative writing in our children. But also in adults.
This is taken from the book:

“…a girl writes

It’s hard to wrestle with some people,
But harder still to wrestle with life.
I seem always to lose…
But some day I shall win.

Such confessions as this are valuable to adults; they show us children struggling no less than we, to be accepted, to be adequate. Often they astonish us by revealing to us how little we know about certain children. To judge by his behavior, here is a nine-year-old boy who seems the least reflective, the most heedless, the most insensitive of children, and yet he writes:

Loneliness

Something is missing from my life,
It makes me sad and lonely.
I can’t play, I can’t think.
My heart shakes in me like a hammer.
I try to take my thought off of it,
But I cannot.”



“One twelve-year-old writes…

What is sorrow?

Sorrow is a dark cloud
That has moved across
The sun of happiness.

…This same child into whose life had come the shock of parental separation and financial insecurity, wrote a poem she called “Contentment.” Much of her contentment may have arisen from the writing, for during the poetry hour she seemed relaxed although completely absorbed, and she would remain at her writing long after the group had been dismissed for play.

Contentment

It is a gray day
And I am happy.
I am not happy because something special
is going to happen,
I am happy because I am content.
I am satisfied with everything.
I do not wish I was somebody else,
I am glad I am just I.
I do not wish that you would be different,
I like you just the way you are."

The book
Children Write Poetry - A Creative Approach by Flora J. Arnstein

The foreword
written by Hughes Mearns, Chairman of the Department of Creative Education, New York University, August 12, 1946

“…The beginning years are most important. Then it is that the creative spirit must be released again and again, and in an environment wholly favorable to it, for it must have the long, slow chance to grow in strength. And alien and unsympathetic world could easily kill it unless it is protected and nurtured in the early years.

Not only beauty but wisdom is here; and kindness, pity, mercy, a care for living things, love of the world, unprejudiced observation, instinctive insight, the joy of sharing, a reaching out to other peoples, the very core of humanitarianism. It is there, and always has been there, in the guarded secrecy of child thinking and child feeling, an amazing potential power, which could some day remake a troubled and distracted world.

Flora Arnstein belongs to that small but growing group of artist teachers who know that guided self-expression opens up important paths not only to cultural living but also to learning, to morality, and to health; that each revelation of the inner spirit thus successfully handled by adult guides has canceled at once a hundred personal and social problems of the faraway future.”

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RAFA NADAL SMOKIN' AT THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN '09

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Rafa wins Quarter Final over Gilles Simon
Photo credit: Quinn Rooney of Getty Images

The next match will be against his countryman
Fernando Verdasco on Friday
The time isn't out yet, check it out here Schedule

It will probably be 7:30 p.m. Friday night, Australian time,
which is 3:30 a.m. USA EST (The night of Thursday into Friday)

Photo credit: Mark Kolbe of Getty Images

Photo credit: Mark Dadswell of Getty Images

Photo credit: Mark Dadswell of Getty Images

Photo credit: Quinn Rooney of Getty Images

Photo credit: Torsten Blackwood

Rafael Nadal defeated Gilles Simon January 28, 2009
6-2, 7-5, 7-5

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Australian Open '09
January 28
Photo credits - Getty photographers:
Mark Dadswell, Mark Kolbe,
Quinn Rooney, Torsten Blackwood
and unknown

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Match Statistics

Rod Laver Arena - Men's Singles - Qtr. Finals
	Rafael Nadal ESP (1)				6		7		7
Match Completed
	Gilles Simon FRA (6)				2		5		5

SlamTracker

Match Statistics

Serve Statistics

	Elapsed Time by Set:	33	58	57

	Match Summary
			Nadal(ESP)		Simon(FRA)
	1st Serve %		63 of 94 = 67 %		52 of 94 = 55 %
	Aces	5	4
	Double Faults	2	4
	Unforced Errors	24	41
	Winning % on 1st Serve	46 of 63 = 73 %	37 of 52 = 71 %
	Winning % on 2nd Serve	18 of 31 = 58 %	16 of 42 = 38 %
	Winners (Including Service)	29	42
	Receiving Points Won	41 of 94 = 44 %	30 of 94 = 32 %
	Break Point Conversions	7 of 12 = 58 %	3 of 7 = 43 %
	Net Approaches	13 of 15 = 87 %	19 of 29 = 66 %
	Total Points Won	105	83
	Fastest Serve Speed	203 KMH	203 KMH
	Average 1st Serve Speed	183 KMH	182 KMH
	Average 2nd Serve Speed	140 KMH	135 KMH

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Read Rafa's blog at timesonline
To ask Rafa questions at this site,
email the question to rafa@timesonline.co.uk

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Rafa's blog at the Herald Sun
To ask Rafa questions at this site, email the question to online@heraldsun.com.au

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Live Streaming of Rod Laver Arena

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Australian Open draws

Tennis Talk's Live Score
and
Link to Live AO '09 Radio Play by Play

Australian Open AO radio

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Interview with Rafa after Quarter Final AO '09 match
defeating Gilles Simon
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PHOTOS OF RAFAEL NADAL IN 4TH ROUND AT AUSTRALIAN OPEN '09

Rafael Nadal of Spain plays a backhand in his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Rafa beat Fernando Gonzalez 6-3 6-2 6-4 in the fourth round of the Australian Open.

Match Statistics

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Rod Laver Arena - Men's Singles - 4th Round
	Rafael Nadal ESP (1)				6		6		6
Match Completed
	Fernando Gonzalez CHI (13)				3		2		4

SlamTracker

Match Statistics

Serve Statistics

	Elapsed Time by Set:	37	38	40

	Match Summary
			Nadal(ESP)		Gonzalez(CHI)
	1st Serve %		49 of 73 = 67 %		61 of 89 = 69 %
	Aces	4	6
	Double Faults	0	2
	Unforced Errors	11	35
	Winning % on 1st Serve	38 of 49 = 78 %	36 of 61 = 59 %
	Winning % on 2nd Serve	15 of 24 = 63 %	10 of 28 = 36 %
	Winners (Including Service)	33	22
	Receiving Points Won	43 of 89 = 48 %	20 of 73 = 27 %
	Break Point Conversions	6 of 13 = 46 %	2 of 7 = 29 %
	Net Approaches	10 of 14 = 71 %	8 of 18 = 44 %
	Total Points Won	96	66
	Fastest Serve Speed	196 KMH	206 KMH
	Average 1st Serve Speed	180 KMH	177 KMH
	Average 2nd Serve Speed	143 KMH	148 KMH

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Quarter Finals

Rafael Nadal plays Gilles Simon Wednesday, January 28, 2009
7:30 p.m. in Melbourne, Australian Open ' 09
which is 3:30 a.m. (Tuesday night into) Wednesday night
USA EST

For Melbourne time see my sidebar

The Forum that used to be at Rafael Nadal's website
can be found at:
www.activeboard.com/forum

Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning a point in his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Matt Blyth/Getty Images)


Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images

Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images


Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning a point in his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)


Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning a point in his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)


Rafael Nadal of Spain plays a forehand smash in his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)


Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning match point after his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)


Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning match point after his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)


Rafael Nadal of Spain plays a forehand in his fourth round match against Fernando Gonzalez of Chile during day eight of the 2009 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 26, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)



Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images



Photo by Matt Blyth/Getty Images


Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

For more pictures: Rafael Nadal

and http://www.activeboard.com/forum
(the "original" Forum for Rafa fans,
who were active at the Forum before NIKE changed the website)


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Live Streaming of Rod Laver Arena

These work on my MAC and on PC as well:
http://atdhe.net/live-tv-2481.html

For future match live streaming links (index):
http://atdhe.net/index.html

www.channelsurfing.net
once there scroll down until you find Australian Open - Rod Laver Arena

Australian Open draws

Tennis Talk's Live Score
and
Link to Live AO '09 Radio Play by Play

Australian Open AO radio


Rafa's Old or Original Forum:

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=84197&p=1


Read Rafa's blog at timesonline
To ask Rafa questions at this site,
email the question to rafa@timesonline.co.uk

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Rafa's blog at the Herald Sun
To ask Rafa questions at this site, email the question to online@heraldsun.com.au

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