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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Dinner at the Nike house in Wimbledon

Hi everyone (I knew this one) !!!

 Two highlights today out of my tennis work and routine. One is a media thing
I did today that I think will be cool. A cinema production company came today
to London to film me for something. They are making a movie or documentary (I
am not that sure) on Zidane and they asked me if I could be part of the movie
and talk. When Benito and Carlos told me about it I thought it was nice. I
think Zidane is big, very big. One of the sportsmen I have admired more in my
career. I don't have idols but Zidane was probably one of those persons that
I have looked at more. To feel part of this film is great and I told them
what I thought of this great sportsman on and off court. So they came to my
house to get the interview done. They told me it would be 15 minutes but in
the end it was 45 since the language thing always makes interviews longer.
This time it was no English, it was French so even more difficult ... :-)

 The other night we had the Italian dinner at my house, and tonight we had
the Spanish dinner at the Nike house. This was the second highlight. I think
it was on Sunday, we came to the Nike house in Wimbledon to pick up our
clothes. You know, we are lucky since we get everything for free (and I also
get paid) so we go to every grand-slam to pick up our clothes at their place.
At the French Open they also had a very cool and modern house and at the US
Open we go to their Nike Store I think next to the 5th Avenue. Here at
Wimbledon they have this fantastic house where they take care of all their
players. I went there with Fidgiano (Feliciano Lopez) to get everything and
there they were, Nico and Roy from Nike taking care of us. We had a nice
conversation while Roy was bringing down everything and Nico had this idea to
do a Spanish dinner at the house. We thought it was great.

 Charly Moya and his team were also invited but unfortunately he lost and so
he is back in Spain now -sorry if I say this, I know he lost to Tim Henman,
the local hero here. Anyway, they had this "Catalan style chicken" (they say
it was like this but I think it was more Indian than Spanish :-) ... some
salmon, some salads, cous cous, potatoes, etc. For dessert we had some
chocolate pudding. Nice stuff, really good, but not too Spanish, huhhh? :-) I
hope Nico and the other Nike guys don't get upset with me now that I made
these comments :-). The whole Nadal/Lopez house came. That's my uncle Toni,
Rafa Maymo, Feliciano Lopez, Albert Costa, Toni his physio, plus Carlos
Costa, Albert Molina from IMG and Benito from my team and a couple of friends
from Feli that are visiting for a couple of days. I am sending this picture
of the dinner.

We had it early (for Spanish standards) and we had dinner at 9 pm. The reason
for this was that 1) we were guests and 2) Feli plays tomorrow early. I am
scheduled late so for me it was OK.

I am always talking about dinners or breakfast but I guess these are the
different things we do. I hope you guys don't mind. About the other "stuff"
today, I got back home pretty soon after I practised and did my work on site.
I practised at 11am and I managed to get back by 2.15pm. I had the
appointment with the French crew at 2pm so I was a bit late. I just never
manage to get on time. I think it is not always my fault, almost never, but
the fact is that I am almost always late ... I have to work on that!