Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain | Defector
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I responded to this novelty with slander: Rafael Nadal was a "pusher."... It was the word we used to protect ourselves from a talent so freakish that we had to fit it into some category.
He seemed impossibly full of life, embodying a fresh vision for what tennis should look like. He was also curiously damp.
On the Spanish island of Mallorca, Nadal was born into a sporting family... "If you see my family, a lot of people is big."
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