{"id":11225,"date":"2018-04-23T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2018-04-24T01:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T06:02:46","slug":"rafael-nadal-discusses-the-barcelona-open-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/rafael-nadal-discusses-the-barcelona-open-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal discusses the Barcelona Open (Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rafael Photo by y.caradec<\/a> <\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Rafa, welcome back to Barcelona. <\/strong>You arrived here straight off the back of yet another win in Monte Carlo how much of a high are you one right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, thank you very much. Yes very happy with what happened last week of course. It’s been a great week and I enjoyed a lot the way that I played Monte Carlo and always playing in Monte Carlo is special and pleasure you know?<\/p>\n

So, yeah – here I am at Barcelona again. It’s a tournament I know very well and I feel a little bit like home even if my home is Majorca. I am from this club and I enjoyed the fact that I can play here in front of my people.<\/p>\n

You say you feel like home here you turn up here you get ready to play on a court which has your name. Is there much<\/strong>
\nmore homely feeling anywhere else on the tour?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well this part of the season all the events are so special for me now so I really enjoy playing every week and this week is not an exception and now having two weeks in a row at home – Barcelona and Madrid, this is a special two weeks back to back, so happy for everything and I’m just trying to to be ready for the tournament again.<\/p>\n

…and of course here last year you did “La Decima”, what are your memories of winning a tenth title here and how great a feeling was it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah was fantastic now and was an unforgettable moment when I received a present on the on the centre court with a video after winning the tenth. Yeah was so special and just can say thanks to all the members here of the
\nclub. It made me feel like this last year – victory against a very tough opponent in the final. It was a great final …so yeah<\/p>\n

A great moment and you’ve already had it last week and you’ve got it again this week. You turn up here needing to perform to keep hold of the number one spot. Is that extra motivation for you now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, for me that the extra motivation is justing playing the tournament. If I’m playing Monte Carlo, for me like a love story and here almost the same and yes… My real motivation is just playing Monte Carlo last week, now playing Barcelona. That’s a tournament that I had a lot of success that I really feel the passion for playing on it so that’s all.<\/p>\n

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Photo by y.caradec Rafa, welcome back to Barcelona. You arrived here straight off the back of yet another win in Monte Carlo how much of a high are you one right now? Well, thank you very much. Yes very happy with what happened last week of course. It’s been a great week and I enjoyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[781,85,790,779],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","category-news","tag-atp","tag-barcelona","tag-nadal","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11229,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions\/11229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}