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Why Nadal should salute the string
More than anyone, Toni Nadal has always understood the subtle weaknesses of his sublimely talented nephew.
Which is why several years ago, chatting with Jean-Christophe Verborg, Babolat's international tour director, Uncle Toni asked for some assistance.
"Rafa is going to get older and older," he told Verborg, "so we have to help him a little bit."
The synthetic strings have helped turn tennis into a passive-aggressive game. You can actually watch the elite players sometimes take a few quick steps backward when returning serve -- and then swat a winner from what looked like a defensive position.
"You see it happen all the time," said ESPN analyst Darren Cahill. "The strings have made it a more offensive game, especially from the baseline."
Jelena Janovic, a runner-up in Cincinnati, is not the only player who should be extolling the revolution in string technology.
They also have placed a premium on retrieving ability. Perhaps the best two defenders in the game -- Novak Djokovic and Caroline Wozniacki -- are the No. 1-ranked players on the ATP World Tour and WTA circuits. This is not a coincidence.
Toni Nadal is a successful tennis coach, but in the hands of clever producers, he's actually a decent actor. In opening scene of a Babolat commercial, Toni sits comfortably and speaks a serviceable French with English subtitles.
"At the time, he wasn't playing very well," Toni says of the search for a new string. "The racket is great, but &"
And then he raises his eyebrows and smiles coyly.
"In fact," Toni says, producing a 40-foot reel of 16-gauge (1.30 millimeters) RPM Blast, "his secret is this string."
The black, eight-sided string is described in Babolat literature as a "high-density co-polymer polyester monofilament combined with a new cross-linked coating."
And so, he finished the 2010 season with three Grand Slam titles in a row, something Federer never did in the same calendar year. It was one of the greatest seasons ever.
Today, according to Babolat, about 20 percent of the elite players on the ATP World Tour and WTA use the RPM Blast string.
Toni Nadal, the pitchman, continued.
"It helped Rafa hit the ball harder, more topspin, while maintaining control," he said with a look of conviction. "Babolat made an amazing string. So we're very happy."
http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen11/story/_/id/6884768/us-open-why-rafael-nadal-salute-string Boskovic je rekao da Jeca koristi novi, probni reket. Bez oznaka je, tako da ne znamo o kom proizvodjacu se radi. Sumnjam na babolat ali ko zna, mozda se i ona pridruzi head-u.
