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Forty-five minutes before the game was scheduled to start I took a cold shower. Freezing cold water. I do this before every match. It's the point before the point of no return; the first step in the last phase of what I call my pre-game ritual.
5 Under the cold shower, I enter a new space in which I feel my power and resilience grow. I'm a different man when I emerge. I'm activated.
After Titin, my physical therapist, had bandaged my knee, I stood up, got dressed, went to a basin, and ran water o through my hair. Then I put on my bandanna. ' a practical point to it: keeping my hair from falling over my eyes. But it's also another moment in the ritual, another decisive moment, like the cold shower, when I am aware that very soon I'll be entering battle.
5 An official in a blazer walked in and told us it was time. Now I was supposed to hand over my bag to a court attendant for him to carry it to my chair. ?.
I don't like it. It's a break
from my routine. I handed over my bag but took out one racket. I led the way out of the locker room, along corridors o with photographs of past champions and trophies behind glass frames, down some stairs and left and out into the cool
Rafael Nadal was born in Spain In 1986. He began playing tennis at the age of three and turned professional af fifteen. Nadal has won seventeen Grand Slam fifles Including eleven French Opens and two Olympic gold medals. He beat Roger Federer in the longest final in Wimbledon history in 2008. He won Wimbledon again in 2010, and in 2011 he was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.
English July air and the magical green of the Centre
I sat down, took off my white tracksuit top, and took 25 a sip from a bottle of water. Then from a second botile.
I repeat the sequence, every time, before a match begins, and at every break between games, until a match is over. A sip from one bottle, and then from another. And then I put the two bottles down at my feet, in front of my 30 chair to my left, one neatly behind the other, diagonally
aimed at the court. 3
It's a way of placing myself in
a match, ordering my surroundings to match the order I seek in my head.
The last part of the ritual, as important as all the 35 preparations that went before, was to look up and search for my family members among the blur of the Centre Court crowd. I don't let them intrude on my thoughts during a match - I don't ever let myself smile during a match - but knowing they are there, as they always have 40 been, gives me the peace of mind on which my success as a player rests. I build a wall around myself when I play. but my family is the cement that holds the wall together.
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