LOYALTY IS CHARACTERISTIC OF RAFA FANS

We who are Rafa Nadal fans, want him to win. But our admiration doesn't wane when he doesn't win. It is who he is as much as his winning record that we are attracted to.

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Rafa tossing bottle - best part - it is a practice and Rafa was wearing his sleeveless top
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Video of Rafa at U.S. Open - after practice
Signing autographs

My picture was selected by Rafa to be one of the ten winners of the Babolat contest

I received an email from Babolat (Rafa's tennis racket company) stating Rafa selected my picture biting my tennis racket to win prizes for winners of photos 4-10. So, I am not one of the top three winners. My prizes are small. But still - cool.

To enlarge click on the image above.

The following links show all the photos that entered the contest (I am on the first link below (page 3):
www.flickr.com/photos/babolatvs/page3/
www.flickr.com/photos/babolatvs/page4/
www.flickr.com/photos/babolatvs/page1/
www.flickr.com/photos/babolatvs/page2/