Meeting Rafa Nadal at the Real Club de Tennis Barcelona

 

 

 

I met with my friends at the Real club de Barcelona on Wednesday 30th April 2008.

We were there to see the Open Sabadell Atlantico Barcelona 2008, one of the most

important tennis tournaments in the world.

Rafa Nadal will be there along with several other top tennis players like: David Ferrer

(5  ESP), David Nalbandian (7 ARG), James Blake (8 USA) and Carlos Moya (14 ESP)

who had played against the 15 year-old promising-talent Carlos Boludo (ESP) in the

opening show on Sunday before. 

 

First we went to watch some tennis matches and saw Andy Murray, the 20th in the

world ranking and I got his autograph!!!

They were all there, the top 100 in the world!!!

It was so exciting to see all the titans of tennis in action, to see them fighting, using

their strategies to win, and sometimes getting angry and throwing their racquets

when loosing.

 

 

Then we went to collect autographs from other famous tennis players and I got

some of them on my white cap, but my most important of all being an autograph

from the second best tennis player in the world, Rafa Nadal!!! It was super-

exciting to meet him and all the other top tennis professionals in flesh and blood.

We also managed to get very good photographs with these big professionals.

My mom took them all, and here is one of them showing us with Andy Murray,

and the second one with David Ferrer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s me in the brown-striped T-shirt, with my sister (on the left), a friend of ours, and of course Andy Murray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me and my friends with David Ferrer

 

 

 

Next we went to see some double matches and were fortunate to see the Bryan

brothers, Bob and Mike, the best tennis double in the world, with no less than 45

titles, including 4 Grand Slams and 2 times Masters Cup in 2003 and 2004.

With no doubt they were the stars of the court.

 

 

After that we went to play Wii sports tennis and other games. The place around the

tennis courts is called the “Commercial Street”, where many brands show their

products and let you sample them. It looks almost like a theme park. One can sample

drinks, play mini tennis, Wii and other games.

 

Finally it was time to say good bye to each other and leave.

 

It has been a wonderful day like one in Disney World,  we met a great many famous

tennis players who played such brilliant tennis.