Random tennis thoughts of the day

[louiselux]

There's a point in this compilation of adorable Rafa clips, where he says about his health: 'My body is perfect', then realised how that sounded and added, with some chagrin, 'physically speaking'. That's not a bad grasp of English, right? Talking of which, his English has really noticeably improved in the past few months.

Rafa played blindingly good tennis against Andy Roddick on Sunday, to the point where it was getting vaguely frightening. His fist pumps at the end were, to quote emungere, 'highly and bizarrely sexual'. I know fist pumps are all about penises anyway, but these really were fist pumps of total porn. There's just something about Rafa that underlies all the adorablness. Rafa really is quite fearful in his intensity, his physical directness and apparent lack of any self consciousness. Mr Lux has watched Rafa play once or twice, and his verdict is: 'One day he's going to snap and lock himself in a room and just stare at the walls, isn't he?' I do wonder.

He's just a simple boy who likes fishing, golf, continuing to crush all comers in tennis, Phantom of the Opera, diamante Marilyn Monroe art and Julio Englesias.

On a different note, much as I like seeing him having fun and being a total dork, I wish Roger would stop doing that weird thing with Wawa on the tennis court after they win. Even if it's made of HoYay, it's really beginning to creep me out for reasons I can't even explain.

Comments

[adorerdollylux.livejournal.com]

ohmygod, i just love rafa so much. i've been watching all those compilation videos for the past couple of days, and i just can't get over him. i love the one where they told him he hit 100% of his first serves in the second set of his match against baghatis (or whatever his name is) at indian wells in 2006 and just his... complete disbelief in it and that GRIN. he's impossible. i was just talking to jess about it and it's just amazing to me that someone can be so arrestingly fragile but not at the exact same time. i always worry about him and want someone there with him all the time but then he goes and handles everything on his own and he does it so well and it's so HEARTBREAKING somehow. it's amazing to me.

i always think it's so disarming to see rafa on the court and then rafa off the court, but then you get those little glimpses of RAFA in the NADAL on court, like when he's smiling at the ballboys or when something silly happens during the match, etc. and that little smile comes out and he doesn't look so mature and serious all of a sudden. he just looks like little rafa. it's incredible. i am in awe of him, constantly.

yeah, the thing with stan is strange to me, too. i think it's more how stan acts than roger, because roger makes it silly and adorable, and stan seems like he has a semi the entire time. hahaha.

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