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Roger Federer (Switzerland) and Rafael Nadal (Spain) launch the ATP World Tour 2012 in Doha, Qatar where they will be playing the first tournament of the season, the Doha ExxonMobil Open. To promote the event, they played few balls at the Katara Cultural Village Amphitheatre, where the court was illuminated by hundreds of candles.
Both pictures above ~ January 2, 2012 - Photo by Pacific Coast News.com
Federer vs. Davydenko play in the other Semifinal following Rafa's match
Rafael Nadal against Potito Starace of Italy during the 2nd round Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images Europe
ATP Qatar Open in Doha, Qatar
Round 2 Rafael Nadal defeated Potito Starace 6-2, 6-2 January 6, Wednesday, 2010 I would have posted this yesterday in a timely manner, but my internet server was down.
.................................................. Round 2 ~ Doha ~ January 6, 2010 Nadal vs. Starace Uploaded by Tennis24grTV ..................................................
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Rafael Nadal of Spain in action against Potito Starace of Italy during the 2nd round of the ATP Qatar Open at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex on January 6, 2010 in Doha, Qatar. Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images Europe
Rafa Nadal has confirmed today that he will travel to London next Tuesday, June 16th. For the past 36 hours, Rafa Nadal, has been undergoing in-depth medical tests under the supervision of Doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro. Rafa Nadal: "I have been playing with pain on my knees for some months now and I simply can't go on like this. The pain was limiting certain movements in my body, which affected me mentally as well."
"After the tests and with the appropriate treatment, we have decided to travel to London next Tuesday, June 16th."
"I am going to give my 200% to be ready for the most important tournament in the world. The tournament that I always dream about. I will not go out and play, especially on the Wimbledon Centre Court, if I am not 100% ready to play."
"I have 2 difficult weeks ahead of me, especially because I won't be doing what I like doing most, which is to play tennis, but I will be working on my recovery through physiotherapy treatments as well as recovery work on the specific muscular area."
Doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, Spanish Federation doctor and Managing Director of the Mapfre Medical Tennis Center: "After the appropriate tests (MRI, Ultrasound scans and gammagraphy) Mr. Rafael Nadal suffers from insertion tendonitis in the superior end of both kneecaps with a light osseous edema.
His treatment will involve oral anti-inflammatories, physiotherapy as well as progressive muscular exercises for both quadriceps.
Following the 48-hour treatment, Mr. Nadal will progressively get back into training progressively."
There will be no further comments or statements today.
............................................................. Pictures of Rafa from 2008 Queens Club tournament Rafa defeated Andy Roddick in the Semi Final 7-5, 6-4 Rafa defeated Novak Djokovic in the Final 7-6, 7-5 .............................................................
Nadal won't defend at Queen's Club Posted June 5, 2009, Friday
Deposed French Open king Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next week's Wimbledon tuneup at the Queen's Club because of a knee injury.
Nadal, stunningly eliminated at the French Open last weekend in the fourth round by Sweden's Robin Soderling, has been advised by doctors to rest. He won last year's title at the Queen's Club and went on to capture his first Wimbledon crown a few weeks later.
"I am very disappointed to not be able to come this year to Queen's [and] defend the title I won last year," said Nadal in a statement. "To play in London has always been special for me, to play at the Queen's Club is an honor and the fans in the UK are among the best I have ever seen, always supporting me since the first time I played there.
"I have been having some problems in the past months with my knees, that's no secret, that did not allow me to compete always at 100 percent. I need to work with my team to recover well, work on my physical condition to be at my top form and get ready for the grass to play at Wimbledon. I hope I can be ready to compete by then. I am really sorry and I hope that the people at the tournament will still want me to come next year."
Nadal has won five titles this year, including the Australian Open. He also captured the prestigious Indian Wells event before taking clay crowns at Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome. A loss to Roger Federer in the final at the French Open tuneup in Madrid preceded his first-ever loss at Roland Garros.
State of Play
"I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work—not everyone's that fortunate," says Nadal. Nike white polo. Tommy Hilfiger khaki pants.
In this story: sittings editor, Phyllis Posnick; hair, Thom Priano for Garren New York Salon; grooming, Regine Thorre at Marek & Associates. Shot on location at the Four Seasons Hotel, Miami.
Match Point
"He gives 100 percent in every match," Costa says. "Others are relaxed at first, and tension kicks in later, whereas Rafa plays tensely from day one." Ralph Lauren Purple Label white linen suit.
It was Andre Agassi who produced one of his better one-liners back in 2005 when he was asked to assess the playing style of a then teenage Rafael Nadal.
'He's writing cheques you only hope his body can cash,' said the former world No 1 when asked about the hard-running, hard-hitting style of the future Wimbledon winner.
Less than two weeks from now we will have found out if Nadal's latest down payment has bounced, his hopes of mounting a serious defence of the title still clouded in uncertainty.
This appears to be the case after the Spaniard released a statement about the chances of him being able to walk out onto Centre Court for his first match on June 22, exercising his champion's privilege.
He sounded less than convinced and, while stating that he will definitely travel to London, admitted that there is some hard treatment ahead.
'I have been playing with pain in my knees for some time now and I simply can't go on like this,' said Nadal. 'I am going to give my 200 per cent to be ready for the most important tournament in the world. I will not go out and play, especially on the Centre Court, if I am not 100 per cent ready to play.
'I have two difficult weeks ahead of me, especially because I won't be able to do what I like doing most, which is playing tennis.'
Nadal's injury is said to be a relatively straightforward one, with the tendons in the area above both knees suffering constant inflamation.
The reasons behind it are more complex and a combination of the way he hits the ball, the manner in which he wins matches, and the sheer amount he plays in what is often an eleven-month season for the top players.
This year he has already played 49 singles matches alone — he also enjoys sporadically turning out in doubles — while last season he played 93 before skipping the Masters Cup and Davis Cup final, which might have taken him to three figures.
In all these contests his method tends to involve grinding out long points with lots of running. He puts enormous revs on the ball with an effort-filled, super quick racket swing that ends going all the way up around his ears in an upward trajectory.
Most shots are hit with open stance using plenty of body rotation that starts from the ankles and works up through the legs into his trunk.
Small wonder that British Davis Cup captain John Lloyd was moved to remark on Tuesday: 'It takes a lot more work for Rafa to win a match 6-2, 6-3 than it does someone like Roger Federer. That's not a criticism, it's just how it works for him.'
It has been working this way for Nadal since he started winning junior tournaments aged eight, going on to reach the world's top 50 at 16.
So it is the mileage, rather than the registration year, that is more if an issue, and it is a major threat to his hopes of getting up to the kind of Grand Slam tally that Roger Federer has just achieved.
The Swiss predictably pulled out of the ATP event in Halle yesterday, citing exhaustion, while Nadal is out of this week's AEGON Championships at West London's Queen's Club.
Second seed Andy Roddick, a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Belgium's Kristof Vliegen, does not believe his knee condition will have much bearing on whether he can win Wimbledon again, and was bordering on the dismissive.
'I've had tendinitis for years and years and years, it's kind of a fancy term for overuse,' said the American world No 6.
'It's uncomfortable and painful, but in my mind I never thought his Wimbledon defence was in jeopardy. He's had knee tendinitis for a long time and he's won Grand Slams while he's had it. I'm not going to understimate Rafa, I think he's going to be there and I think he's going to be fine.'
Roddick now faces the likely prospect of taking on Lleyton Hewitt in the third round, a match featuring two players who have won this title eight times between them.
After the particularly dismal efforts of his compatriots in this tournament's qualifying and first round proper, Andy Murray today tackles Italy's Andrea Seppi after receiving a bye through the first round.
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Rafa's long battle with injury
2004: Out for two months with stress fracture of his left foot.
2005: Misses season-ending Masters Cup and Australian Open (January 2006) with strained ligaments in his left foot.
2007: Played less in latter part of the season to manage tendinitis in his knees.
2008: Out of Davis Cup final and Masters Cup with tendinitis.
MONTREAL — We’ve seen those tears before, the ones that welled up in Roger Federer’s eyes before 15,000 people inside Court Philippe Chatrier, and millions more watching around the world on TV or online.
This time, the tears came after Federer held his serve to lead 5-3 in the third set of the French Open final, just four points away from a title he thought would never be his.
They were happy tears, at last, as the emotions he had kept under control throughout a routinely Roger performance against an overwhelmed Robin Soderling became too much.
But he still had four more points to win.
After a few missteps, he won them. And now he has a French Open title, the only one that had gone missing in his Grand Slam collection.
They say champions have to have almost equal measures of talent and luck. And Federer, who suddenly is back in the conversation for No. 1, had plenty of both in Paris.
When he said he was happy to see a different face across the net in the final, that was understating the case.
Federer’s battle was just making it there, doing what he was expected to do, should do, after Rafael Nadal’s shocking loss to Soderling a week prior.
What’s lost in the noise of the crowds of hopping back on the Federer bandwagon is this: his fortune comes as a result of Nadal’s misfortune.
Federer admitted himself that he hardly played his best in Paris, and he doesn’t deny that his days of dominating the sport are over.
While he puts a positive spin on that, saying it’s a motivating, new way to win, he won’t break his current all-time Grand Slam singles titles deadlock with Pete Sampras without Nadal’s help.
He won’t win Wimbledon this year without Nadal’s help — without Rafa’s absence, more than anything else. And he can’t get back to No. 1 without Nadal’s help.
If Nadal is 100 per cent fit at Roland Garros, he surely doesn’t lose to Soderling — and he almost surely doesn’t lose to Federer, either.
Federer said Monday he didn’t think Nadal’s knee injury will keep him out of Wimbledon, no matter what doom-and-gloom coach Toni Nadal says, and even though Nadal was in Barcelona Monday for two days of tests on his knee.
He pointed out Nadal’s knees weren’t wrapped in Paris — but they haven’t been wrapped all season.
Perhaps Federer didn’t notice; when he’s on court with his rival, he’s looking a lot higher up — at the heavily-top-spinned balls Nadal puts nearly out of reach, far above his left shoulder.
Nadal’s knee issues are hardly news; the one question mark people have always had, when they try to project just how much history the man from Majorca will make, is the how his body will hold up.
Usually the knees wear down in late summer, during the North American hard-court season. It’s the biggest reason Nadal has never been competitive at the U.S. Open.
This year, he’s having issues in May.
Federer could reclaim the No. 1 spot this summer. If he plays on grass in Germany this week (he’ll decide Tuesday, after a pit stop at home in Switzerland), and he wins Wimbledon, he’d be at most 1,000 points behind Nadal after trailing him by 5,000 points just a few weeks ago.
Federer could close the gap this summer, maybe even in Montreal — where he had his first chance to become No. 1 in 2003, but blew it by losing to American Andy Roddick.
But there’s that brand-new baby coming at some point, so who knows how much Federer will play? No wonder he says he’s focusing on the majors, not on who’s No. 1.
So in the renewed debate about whether Federer is the greatest ever, don’t forget to factor in his greatest rival.
Nadal took Federer’s No. 1 ranking away. Only he, ultimately, can hand it back — no matter how good, or how lucky, Federer may be.
Del Potro and Federer meet in the second Semi-Final match Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Spain Time Spain is 6 hours ahead of USA EST See my sidebar for Spain time
RAFA BRINGS THE DRAMA - WINS INDIAN WELLS 09 THE SEMI FINAL VS. USA'S RODDICK
RAFAEL NADAL (1) DEFEATED ANDY RODDICK (7) in Indian Wells Semi-Final 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) Saturday, March 21, 2009 in a quirky second set
Andy Murray (4) defeated Roger Federer (2) in Indian Wells Semi-Final 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
Doubles - Final M Mirnyi (BLR) / A Ram (ISR) vs M Fish (USA) / A Roddick (USA) To be played Saturday, March 21, 2009
Final MatchSet Rafael Nadal (1) vs. Andy Murray (4) Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:00 p.m. Indian Wells, California time that is 6:00 p.m. USA EST
So Rafa plays another Andy tomorrow. Back to back Andys.
I hope Rafa brings some heat tomorrow.
Rafa in the Semi-Final Match Indian Wells March 21, 2009 Above photo credits: The photographer is unknown because where I copied them didn't post credit. Probably a Getty photographer.
This is footage of World #1 Rafael Nadal warming up at the 2009 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, CA...The practice courts at Indian Wells offer unprecedented access to the players... This footage was shot over the course of several days, thus the different outfits Rafa can be seen wearing. This text is taken from the poster. Uploaded March 20, 2009 by FYB2007
MY SOAPBOX
Apparently, the poker game was more important today than showing the Semi-Final Match live with Rafa and Andy on the east coast of the USA.
It looks like here Fox Sports Net NE is airing the Semi-Final matches between 11:00 pm. and 3:00 a.m. EST
Who knows if they will show the entire match. In the past they have skipped games and almost entire sets to fit the match into the allotted time slot.
Imagine doing that with any football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, bowling or any other sport's game. Aw, heck ....poker.
Hey, what about tiddly winks, does anybody play that on TV? I know. I'm going over the top. I'm venting.
I mean Rafa is the Number 1 Professional Tennis Player in the World and this is how they air tennis on TV. Last season, when he was Number Two, they actually left a big match before it was over and went to paid programming.
This was posted March 19, 2009 Rafa Nadal vs David Nalbandian It's just a medical time-out, but we who love Rafa even like watching this stuff. Uploaded by luneworld
One of my favorite pictures of Rafa from the archives.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And now shifting gears.... to what's really important
Jen Marlowe Director of the film Darfur Diaries and author of the book Darfur Diaries - Stories of Survival, Sandra Hammel and Dr. Peter Liotta, Director of the Pell Center in Newport, Rhode Island at the screening of Darfur Diaries at the 500 seat Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport on March 24, 2007. If you click on the picture, you will see the words: We Will Not Be Silent in two languages on Jen's shirt.
MY OTHER SOAP BOX
The thing is about Darfur and how I try to write about it. I just feel so very helpless. I want to scream at our lovely and shiny new President. I adore him. I do. But he is letting me down. And all we citizen activists who have felt like we have reached down to the bottom of the barrel over and over to try to get the light shone on this humanity-falling-way-short issue of genocide feel so small compared to the huge bottomless hole of ignoring this issue by all of the world's leaders. And really what we mean is President Obama is letting us down for the sake of the forgotten people who have been hanging on by shreds of mental and emotional threads for nights and days on end. Year after year. I understand the treatment of a raped female in Sudan is one of rebuke to the point of totally dismissing her as worthy. Like she is not respectable anymore once she is raped. And she has done nothing to deserve the brutal rapes. And the rapes include ramming sharp objects into the woman's vagina.
And we go about fretting over the stuff in our world where our government, no matter how wrong it has been over the last eight years, it isn't charging people with the duty to torch our houses while we are sleeping, village by village, terrorize our children, brutalize and kill fathers, steal all our belongings and livestock, take away our food and all clean water supplies, rape our souls and our bodies, gouge our eyes out, tell us we are unworthy to live because of the shade of our skin, take everything away from us. EVERY THING. And yet some people are still trying to stand up and keep some shred of sanity. They have to be emotionally frayed. They have to be emotionally depleted. And they don't have anti-depressant drugs. I so hate that "depression drug" commercial that is running on TV..."Who does depression hurt? Everyone. Where does depression hurt? Everywhere...." I mute the TV every time it comes on.
What is wrong with us, that we allow this kind of treatment to go on to our brothers and sisters of the human race? We are just self-absorbed. We are spoiled. We could learn something from the people who are braving to breathe every day with the hope that America, the USA will come to their rescue. Or Europe. The thing is they still believe that the democracies of the world will care about something this brazen. Outrageously wrong. They don't have to watch "Survivor" on TV. They ARE Survivor. The Real Story.
We have done nothing to warrant their trust. And yet they have no one else to put their trust in.
And we are betrayers of their trust in our goodness.
I am just so embarrassed and horrified that we stand by and have done nothing to help these people see an end to this injustice. This bondage. This humiliation. This degradation.
So you see, I really don't have such an issue about the tennis getting no respect on TV. It is people like the Darfuri people who love their children. Who want their children to have a good education. Who want their children to be able to play without being traumatized. Who want to get up in the morning and know that they are safe. Who get NO RESPECT. By our media. By our leaders. We should be ashamed. We like to pretend we are moral people. We like to believe we are principled people. We like to believe that we are the best because we are American citizens of the USA. But that doesn't mean a thing if you don't walk the talk.
I have a wonderful sense of humor. But I find myself feeling like I need to stop myself from feeling humorous or light because these people of Darfur are screaming inside and we are just going about our business like the story doesn't exist.
But the story does exist.
And no matter how many genocides we let go on. And no matter how many politicians lie and say "Never Again" - we know who we are. Small people who didn't want to do anything to stop the madness we gave a word to in 1948 - Genocide I know that wikepedia is no expert resource but check out the page Genocides in history .
Here is a bit of the page:
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United NationsConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocidenational, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." (CPPCG). Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of genocide have taken place throughout history, but it was not until Raphael Lemkin coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international law.
We really are a sorry lot.
Won't you follow Katie-Jay, Gabriel and Yuen-Lin, while they are in Chad the next 10 days? Here is their website:
http://twitter.com/iact It is my first time really doing the Twitter thing. I did it a little when Ann Curry was in the Darfur region, recently.
And won't you choose to make a difference? It starts with one person, deciding to act. And you'll know at the end of your days, that you didn't stand idly by and just ignore this plain and awful behavior of our fellow human beings upon other fellow human beings.
The situation was dire before the arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir March 4, 2009. You know, he wasn't elected, right? Now, the devastating situation is a devastating situation on top of a devastating situation. It is hell on earth.
Please, call or write President Obama and tell him it is not all right with you to continue the same chartless plan of the Bush administration about the Darfuris plight. It just isn't all right. And we need to say so. Clearly and apparently with more voices than we have been saying it with since 2003.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Write President Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ You can also call or write to the President: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Comments to President Obama: 202-456-1111 or 1-800-GENOCIDE The White House comment line is available 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. weekdays ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Find USA elected politicians contact information at this link: www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
................................................. Link to the song The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind Trini Lopez Uploaded by hun896
It doesn't have to be blowin' in the wind.
"The Most Important Office is That of Citizen" I heard Barack Obama quote this on Oprah
I also remember he repeatedly said "Now, let's go change the world."
Let's.You lead.We so need a leader.
Come on President Obama Be the one. We have been trying to be the ones we've been waiting for. But, we still need a President to have the political will to find a way to end the genocide. We can't do it without you, Mr. President.
Greatness in sport is often hard to spot when it’s happening. It often takes a while for someone’s – or some team’s – achievement to be fully appreciated, but there’s no question that tennis is currently enjoying the peak years of one of the greatest clay court players ever, if not the greatest: Rafael Nadal.
That’s why this otherwise evenly balanced tie between two quality teams was always going to require Serbia to win the three rubbers that Nadal was not involved in. And so it was effectively decided the moment David Ferrer beat Novak Djokovic in the opening rubber. No-one quite wants to believe the tie is over after one match, but the reality was that, after that result, someone from the Serbian team had to beat Nadal on clay in Spain, and that’s currently the toughest ask in tennis.
Djokovic could pose a threat to Nadal at Roland Garros
Nadal still needed to deliver the goods, and in Djokovic he faced the player who pushed him further at Roland Garros last year than anyone else. Djokovic put in a much better performance than he had done against Ferrer, and there was enough in it to suggest that, if he can get enough dust on his socks during the European clay season, he might pose Nadal’s toughest challenge at the French Open this year.
But if Djokovic needed a couple of matches to get comfortable on the red stuff, Nadal showed that he is not just a great clay court player but can also switch to clay at the drop of a hat. Never mind that his last tournament was on indoor hard court in Rotterdam and his next is on the outdoor hard courts of Indian Wells in the California desert – he can play on clay at any time.
Nadal’s adaptability will be Germany’s problem
And that will be Germany’s problem in July when it travels to Spain for the quarterfinal. Nadal may well play the Wimbledon final five days before the tie, but it will still take something of a miracle – short of illness or injury – for him to lose a match. The Germans hosted Spain in Bremen last year and couldn’t make home advantage count. They now face the Spaniards on Spanish soil (almost certainly clay) with a team that must hope, like Serbia did, that it can make an impact on the other three rubbers.
Spain’s win over Serbia in glorious sunshine, and with tennis of a quality that increased as the weekend went on, will largely erase from the memory the damage to the 14,000-seater stadium on Thursday night that caused the whole of Friday’s play to be lost. Some will say the tie was lucky to have all its live matches decided in straight sets, but it was also very unlucky to catch winds of a record speed for this part of the Spanish coastline on the eve of the tie. It is the third time the Spanish Federation RFET has used this model of temporary stadium, and in a country passionate about its tennis and enjoying a golden era, it would be a shame if it feels it can’t use it again – after all, it allows top-class tennis to reach the parts of Spain that tour tennis just can’t reach.
All photo credits: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates his victory over Novak Djokovic of Serbia during day two of the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Spain and Serbia at the Parque Tematico Terra Mitica on March 8, 2009 in Benidorm, Spain. Nadal defeated Djokovic in three straight sets 6-4, 6-4 and 6-1 sending Spain into the Davis Cup quarterfinals with a 3-1 lead over Serbia.
Djokovic in awe of Nadal as Spain advance
PARIS (AFP) — Novak Djokovic is just two places behind Rafael Nadal in the world rankings, but on Sunday it felt like a chasm.
World number three Djokovic slumped to a 6-4, 6-4, 6-1 defeat to Nadal as defending champions Spain romped into the Davis Cup quarter-finals with a 4-1 first round win over Serbia.
Djokovic admitted he was in awe of the Spaniard who showed no ill-effects from the knee injury which had kept him off the circuit for a month before the Benidorm claycourt tie.
Feliciano Lopez (2nd R) of Spain waves to the crowd during a victory lap with his team mates Nicolas Almagro (R), David Ferrer (C), Tommy Robredo (2nd L) and Rafael Nadal (L) followed by Spain's Davis Cup team captain Albert Costa celebrating their win over Serbia during day two of the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Spain and Serbia at the Parque Tematico Terra Mitica on March 8, 2009 in Benidorm, Spain. Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the fourth match in three straight sets 6-4, 6-4 and 6-1 sending Spain into the Davis Cup quarter-finals with a 3-1 win over Serbia.
Team: Feliciano Lopez, Nicolas Almagro, David Ferrer, Tommy Robredo, Rafael Nadal and Coach Albert Costa
Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts during his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia on day two of the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Spain and Serbia at the Parque Tematico Terra Mitica on March 8, 2009 in Benidorm, Spain. Nadal defeated Djokovic in three straight sets 6-4, 6-4 and 6-1 sending Spain into the Davis Cup quarter-finals with a 3-1 win over Serbia.
Fox Sports Net (FSN) is the new broadcast partner of the Pacific Life Open, which will be held March 10-23 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
The tournament will be aired for more than 40 hours on FSN’s 15 owned-and-operated regional networks that reach more than 70 million homes across the United States.
Former ATP and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour players Justin Gimelstob and Chandra Rubin will be part of the commentary team, in addition to award-winning announcer Barry Tompkins.
Coverage of the Pacific Life Open on FSN will begin live on Saturday, March 15 at 11:00 AM PST and continue throughout the following week. The women’s and men’s finals will be live on Sunday, March 23 at 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm PST.
Pacific Life Open Television Listings
All times are Pacific. Please verify with your cable provider the schedule for the Fox Sports Network station in your area.
Saturday, March 15, 2008 Early Round Coverage - FSN - 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (LIVE) Early Round Coverage - FSN West - 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (LIVE)
Sunday, March 16, 2008 Early Round Coverage - FSN - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (LIVE) Early Round Coverage - FSN West - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm (LIVE)
Monday, March 17, 2008 Early Round Coverage - FSN West - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (LIVE) Early Round Coverage - FSN - 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (LIVE)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Early Round Coverage - FSN - 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (LIVE) Early Round Coverage - FSN West - 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (LIVE)
Rafa Nadal will arrive in California tonight (local time) after a successful weekend in Benidorm, where he played the first round of the Davis Cup against Serbia and won 2 out of the 3 points needed to qualify for the quarterfinals of the event.
DRAW CEREMONY
After the conclusion of the draw ceremony for the first Masters Series event of the year in Indian Wells, we have a better picture of what it is to come for Rafa in this tournament. The best tennis player in the world has a relatively comfortable draw (for the first couple of rounds):
He has a bye in the first round and will have to face the winner of the match between Russian, Kevin Anderson (a wild-card) and a qualifier, in the second.
In the third round things could get a lot tougher for Rafa when he faces the likes of Tomas Berdych or Mikhail Youzhny. Two very, VERY dangerous players.
In the quarters, he could play against Argentinean, David Nalbandian and in a hypothetical semi-final, it is very likely he could face defending champion Novak Djokovic. However, Rafa also comes into this tournament with a lot of confidence and one hard court Grand Slam title under his belt.
On the other side of the draw, Roger Federer will have an easy debut against the winner of the match between French Marc Guiquel and Italian, Simone Bolleli. Also on his way are: Jo-Wifred Tsonga, Andy Murray, Fernando Verdasco, and James Blake.
Rafa has a bye in the first round, which means he does not play until round two. Seeded players in his quarter are Del Potro(6), Monfils(9), Nalbandian(14), Berdych(21), Safin(24), Tursunov(26) and Melzer(30).
Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.
A couple of good slide shows this week help illustrate the unfolding drama in Sudan following the indictment of President Bashir. The Guardian compiled a series of photos spanning from 2004 to last week’s announcement by the ICC. The New Republic captures images of the reaction among Sudanese around the world to the ICC’s decision.
Ofebia Quist-Arcton’s piece this morning on NPR described the mood in Zimbabwe following the traffic accident in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was injured and his wife Susan died.
CFR’s analysis on the warrant for President Bashir provides a useful synopsis of the political and humanitarian developments in Sudan and the events leading up to the ICC’s decision. CFR calls the warrant “the most dramatic development in the global move toward increased transnational justice since the end of the Cold War.”
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Yakin Erturk has often been in the media recently, speaking in honor of International Women’s Day. We were especially interested in Al Jazeera’s take on her comments, which focused on the increasing risk of violence against women and girls amid the deepening economic crisis. Al Jazeera also highlighted U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon’s recent visit to eastern Congo, after which he expressed ‘shock’ and ‘sadness almost beyond expression’ after meeting women who were victims of sexual violence.
I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting.
I have been fighting for and supporting the arts all my adult life. Since 2004, I have been working with other activists to end the Darfur genocide.
I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. Places I have been: many USA states including Hawaii, Montreal, Canada, Barbados, France, Spain, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany - and have wonderful memories.
My last trip was in May - June 2013 to Spain.
I would like to travel to Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters.
Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end.
B.S. and M.M., both in music
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RAFA NADAL -BRING BACK LONG PANTS - SLEEVELESS TOPS
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Darfur - The Abandoned Genocide - a video by Sandra Hammel
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Genocide is not only a word,
it is crying of the whole human race.
There is nothing redeeming about being silent
when speaking up is the humane thing to do.
The honor and integrity of the human race is at stake.
