Rafael Nadal - The Goat - Official Movie

Good luck for the rest of the year and of course his team. It's always a pleasure playing against you. You are a big champion. For me, you are the greatest player ever. Pick one player to save your life. Nadal on clay. Rafa. Nadal. When I turn up at tournaments, I do sometimes feel as if all the others must play much better tennis than me. But when we get out on court, because I'm a fighter and I really hate losing, things tend to level out. Here he comes, young Nadal. In the words of Moya, he is the best 16-year-old he has ever seen. Teach that. That's something that you come out, you have this desire, this will, this need to want to succeed at all costs and he has that. That's what makes him great. That's what great champions are when you go down with the Mac, Connors, Borg. The world number one leading the way behind a man who very well might become the world number one one day. A quite astonishing win by a young man whose progress is so fast, so rapid. One wonders where it will all end. The desire he has, while he's already a tough player to face, in one day he could be almost unbeatable. In the Nadal camp, all's aloft. Well, they're loving it, absolutely marvellous agility and record-hit skill at full stretch from Bale. The movements, that's the main thing. Movements and measure the balls that you can take risk or the balls that you don't need to take that risk. The Nadal camp overjoyed that he has won three tournaments in a row. It's not about the surface. It's about your moment and your personal feelings. When you play on clay, it doesn't mean that you have to play all the time with big topspin. When you have the confidence, of course, you have to play with topspin, but you can go in and go for the winners with flatter shots. I don't see a reason why not, so it's about the personal moment that you have. On clay, in my opinion, the beautiful thing about the surface is that you can play different ways and you can still have good success. It's a Rafa special, first one of the final. Oh yes. He's done it. Absolutely sensational. No risk of rain today. Just a glorious English summer's afternoon. Welcome to the start of Wimbledon 2008. I've seen a lot of tennis matches and I've commentated a lot and watched a lot and played a lot. If you add everything together, there's no question in my mind overall. The 2008 match between Rafa and Roger was the greatest tennis match ever. Later I know I'll play against the best player in the world, the best player here on grass. I have to play my best tennis only this way. I have chances to follow him. We'll see. It really depends on how the match turns out. I hope I got that extra gear in case I need it. It should be a good match. Difficult to describe in words that feeling. I only remember myself screaming. Difficult to talk about that. But when you see the images, you see how much it means for me and for my team and family this moment. He's got it in. What an extraordinary point. It's been wonderful for the game. He's promoted this sport in the best possible way. He's got a huge fan base. I'm sure a lot of you guys are Rafa fans and he deserves everything and all the praise. He deserves it. He's a great person. Nadal set for his fourth round encounter against a gentleman he knows pretty well. They had a very heated encounter where they played in Rome. His run of four consecutive French Opens ends. What should I say? I'm sorry when I have this moment in my life. Why should I say I'm sorry? When I saw that he's standing there and Medesco hit it back to him, I thought for sure he's going to go up the line. Medesco resists. He's from Montecarlo but now he's enjoying this legendary run. This court is different than the rest of the surf races because you can enjoy it. You can go to the net, you can play a slice backhand, you can play aggressive. It's more difficult to play defending here. All my life I've dreamed of playing well here. I always worked a lot in all aspects to try to have a good game to play well here. The main thing I think is if you want to play well, you want to find a way. If you really want to play well in one surf race and you are the player, I think in the end you want to find a way and play for me on grass. It was always my dream to play well here. It was all my life. It was a big goal for me. It's more difficult for me to play. More difficult conditions to adapt with just my game in this court. For the balls, for the court, for everything. In Australia, it's hard. The balls bounce higher. In Wimbledon, it's true I have to adjust a lot my game to play in Wimbledon. But in my opinion, playing in Wimbledon for me always wasn't that bad. One of the most important things in Wimbledon is the movements. I think my movements are good to play well in that surf race. What I say to myself is I did another time so I can do it another time. Just be there, fight every point and try to play with high intensity all the time. I know if I play with high intensity, put a lot of balls inside and play long, finally I think he can be more tired than me. To recover. And that's what I'm going to try. I'm going to work very hard to come back as soon as possible. I got used to playing with pain for a long time. I had some problems in my career, different ones. And tennis is a mental game, physical game. So if it's something new, it's always tougher to control. If it's something you already had for a while, you understand a little bit more what's going on. The problem is the pain is too much and undermining your movements. So then it's impossible to compete at the highest level. To win Roland Garros one time, it's almost impossible. To win it five times, it is impossible. To win it ten times, I don't know the word. And when this tournament is so physically taxing and mentally taxing against some of the all-time greatest players, and Nonak Djokovic, and Roger Federer, and Andy Murray, and Stan Mabryka, and all these great competitors that he's playing in this time, for him to do it is extraterrestrial. Ladies and gentlemen, today he has won his 10th French Open title, Raphael Nadal. If ever a player had ownership of an event, it is Raphael Nadal. My goal is all the time and all my life was the same. Keep improving and feel myself a better player next year than what I felt this year. And being a better player doesn't mean you're going to win more than you did. Win or lose, sometimes it's part of the moment. The passion that he shows for the game, I don't think you've seen that on anybody. His passion for the sport, whether he's playing here or he's playing in a smaller event, so as the number one or the number two, three or four player in the world, you're obligated to play all those events. You do your best, but you're looking forward to what history thinks of you, and that is Grand Slam events, Davis Cup or Fed Cup. And Raphael Nadal, he gives it his best, it doesn't matter where he is, and you've got to say a lot for that. And especially as everybody knows in the world of tennis, the preparation was not the ideal one. I have been outside of the practice court of the tour for one month and a half with a stress fracture on the rib, and then I have the foot, that is something that stays there all the time. And he's even chasing this one. How does he do it? Steals another point. In emphatic fashion. I retire from professional tennis. And answering your question, what I'm going to miss the most is probably almost everything. Having a dream come true, be able to play for almost 20 years of career, being competitive and having the chance to play in the best places in the world. Best tournaments, best stadiums, something that I watched on TV when I was a kid. So at the end I realized my dream to become a professional tennis player and be a successful one. I really can't thank enough the support and the love that I received all around.