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Spain's Rafael Nadal and Spanish former tennis player Manolo Santana exchange rackets at the Barcelona Open tennis tournament on April 21, 2009 in Barcelona. Santana gave Nadal the racket he used during the Wimbledon tournament in 1966, and Nadal gave Santana the racket he used during Monte-Carlo tennis open last weekend.
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Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell
Singles - Second Round
[4] D Ferrer (ESP) d [Q] M Kukushkin (KAZ) 63 36 61
[12] I Andreev (RUS) d [WC] A Martin (ESP) 62 62
Singles - First Round
[9] R Stepanek (CZE) d G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 64 26 64
J Monaco (ARG) d [11-WC] M Safin (RUS) 64 61
[13] R Gasquet (FRA) d J Hernych (CZE) 46 63 62
[14] R Soderling (SWE) d T Gabashvili (RUS) 61 64
[16] F Lopez (ESP) d J Nieminen (FIN) 62 61
[Q] D Gimeno-Traver (ESP) d [Q] F Fognini (ITA) 61 63
O Hernandez (ESP) d E Schwank (ARG) 62 64
A Clement (FRA) d G Canas (ARG) 76(0) 63
[WC] G Gaudio (ARG) d D Junqueira (ARG) 64 36 64
[Q] N Lapentti (ECU) d P Mathieu (FRA) 64 26 62
M Youzhny (RUS) d V Troicki (SRB) 67(5) 76(6) 64
Doubles - First Round
L Kubot (POL) / O Marach (AUT) d M Granollers (ESP) / T Robredo (ESP) 63 36 10-8
J Knowle (AUT) / J Melzer (AUT) d N Davydenko (RUS) / I Kunitsyn (RUS) 36 64 10-6
S Aspelin (SWE) / W Moodie (RSA) d [WC] M Lopez (ESP) / F Vicente (ESP) 76(0) 26 12-10
L Arnold Ker (ARG) / F Gonzalez (CHI) d N Almagro (ESP) / A Montanes (ESP) 63 63
T Parrott (USA) / F Polasek (SVK) d F Cermak (CZE) / M Mertinak (SVK) 67(4) 62 10-7
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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What a fantastic photograph and gesture. Of course, Rafa got the better deal, but how sweet that moment must be for him.
Santana likes to call Rafael:
\"my Rafita"..
lol.
Very sweet indeed!
Absolutely Rafa got the better deal. How gracious and generous of Santana to give Rafa his (I'm sure) cherished raquet. Manolo has been nothing but complimentary towards Rafa, and is obviously proud of the younger man. Great story and photo, thanks, Craig!
Thank you, Craig. I'm sure Santana couldn't have asked for a better person & player to pass down the racquet. Good for Rafaaaa.
Craig, I sent an email to you....when you have a chance. Thanks!
Great photo.
Those wooden rackets look like badminton rackets, lol.
I wish Rafa would use some product in his hair off the court...
actually manolo gave that so everyone could see:
"in our days we used to hit power shots and others with this SMALL HEAVY RAQUET"....
lol.
A said...
I wish Rafa would use some product in his hair off the court...
Wed Apr 22, 11:45:00 AM
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he can buy from Roger's hair products.
but he doesn't really need hair products....he can have his hair wild like that...he is good looking the way he is. just natural and not Metrosexual. goodness knows there are ENOUGH of those types of men in the world...who only show how much more venal they are than the ladies...
lol.
Maybe Nike will work on that next, now that they have the sleeves and polo shirts.... (rolls eyes)
One thing! Rafa should wear red more often, what a fantastic color on him.
Vamos!
true Oddman.
and he has a fine smile. he should wear that smile more too.
roger also has a nice smile, i think. actually
all of them have nice smiles. lol.
or maybe, people just look better when they smile, come to think of it.
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