Through Rafan's excellent Rafateering skills, as advised earlier, she was tenacious enough to know where each of the players were practising and at what time, so she was able to take an early position to await the arrival of Rafa and Nando ... *screams*.
Amazingly, Rafa was only about 7 minutes late, and we can exclusively report that ... Nando has had his hair cut!! Woo hoo!! They hit together for about hour an hour and at one point, a ball was hit out of the court and Rafan managed to catch it. The boys asked that she throw it back, which she did, and Uncle Toni said, "Thank you" to her for doing so. *yikes*
As she's not filed her own report yet, I don't have any updates on how Rafa was in practice or how his shoulder was holding up ... hopefully I can update this post later. But when Nando left the court, guess who came on to carry on the practice with Rafa? Yep ... none other than Marc!
Rafan reports that Rafa was very smiley and had a good laugh today (and these pictures are testament to that), and at the end of practice, the fans were treated to 15 minutes of tennis football. What a first report and how lucky was she to witness it? I think that come tomorrow, Rafa will be in full blown serious mode at the start of the competition, so it was nice that she got to witness a more light hearted practice.
I have to say ... I cannot believe what a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, what I saw was actually a very sick man, sick of the heart I believe. But here he is back on form again, enjoying his tennis, and enjoying his life. Smiley, happy Rafa ... nothing warms the cockles more. Can't wait now for it all to start now ... Vamos Rafa!!
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