Rafa disappears


Now you see him, now you don’t. Addressing reporters following a third-round win on a sticky day at the U.S. Open, Rafael Nadal suddenly began experiencing leg cramps. He slumped in his chair, stayed put for a while, then slithered under a desk that was in front of the chair. Nadal is considered a warrior, so it was quite the unexpected sight. “It’s nothing important,” a smiling Nadal later said. “I had that hundreds of times but not in the press conference. If that happened in the locker room, nobody knows nothing, and that’s normal thing.” Indeed. Nadal reached the final.

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