Rafa in the Daily Mail ...

Ding, ding ... round 2!!

Next up on the interview trail is the Daily Mail. Just for information, Rafa met with journalists from l'Equipe, La Marca, Gazzetta Dello Sport and the Daily Mail who where all present together for the interviews you've seen today, the whole event being organised by Rafa's sponsor - PokerStars. Rafa spent 25 minutes with the journalists and ummm ... he was 20 minutes late!!

It is interesting to see the different spin that the Mail has used as compared with l'Equipe - much more inflammatory if you ask me. I mean, "King of pain Nadal in struggle to beat career threatening injury".

What a load of tosh.

Whenever has it ever been remotely suggested that Rafa's condition is career threatening? Good grief. Another anomaly is that the Mail is suggesting that Rafa isn't sure he'll even make it to Australia ...

"I hope you see me in Australia ... That is the biggest goal for me, to come back just before then in Qatar, but I cannot say for sure it is going to happen."

Whereas l'Equipe have a much more concise and to-the-point statement ...

"My goal is to begin the next season in perfect shape, in Doha and then, in the Australian Open."

No mention of him saying he can't be sure it is going to happen.  Journalistic licence, huh??  *rollseyes*

Henyways ... here's the article in full for you to read.

Just for the record, I have now read a full transcript of the l'Equipe interview on another site, and can report that @bluemathilde's tweets - even in the character limitations she was working - are more than a good reflection of what the interview reported.

Thanks again to her.