RafaLint: June 9th

Photo by Peter Staples/ATP World Tour

Rafa will play his second doubles match tomorrow. He and Feli are scheduled for the last match on the main court.

Articles:

• Nadal/Lopez Reach Stuttgart Doubles Quarters – via atpworldtour.com
• Ratings From Roland Garros – by Steve Tignor (tennis.com)
  

  But while Nadal is down at the moment, he is still just 29; do we really think that he doesn’t have at least one more climb left in him? As we saw in the men’s draw this year, good things can happen to tennis players in their 30s. B-

• Tournament director says court quality among issues at French Open

Videos/Audio:

• Audio of Rafa’s pre-tournament presser.
• Rafael Nadal’s 1st practice & press conference at MercedesCup 2015
• Rafael Nadal begins preparations for Mercedes Cup
• iB3 Stuttgart preview – with a bit of an interview in Spanish and some practice footage

Photos:

• Tuesday’s photos from the Stuttgart site.
• Tot Rafa with Moya

Rafa does social media:

• Rafa updated his Facebook cover photo

And he posted on Instagram:

Primeros entrenamientos en hierba #Stuttgart! First practice session on grass #Stuttgart!

A photo posted by Rafa Nadal (@rafaelnadal) on Jun 9, 2015 at 10:14am PDT

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Other stuff:

• The 2015 French Open Grunts Set to Music – heee!