Rafael Nadal's Funniest Moments! | Australian Open

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Kevin Anderson was still in the midst of recovering from the return of serve
as Rafa knocked the volley into the open court.
At the end of the match we saw one of your water bottles fall over. We know
how fastidious you are about the labels facing the right way but it didn't bother you too much.
A nice smile on your face when you asked the ball boy to fix the water bottle up.
No, I didn't ask.
Well, seriously, it's not bothering me. It's just
very stupid things that you do after a lot of years competing. All the tension that you feel
when you're on court, you find your routines but at the end, seriously, it doesn't work for
nothing. It's just stupid. Well, I don't think everybody here thinks it's stupid. I know that
they think it's part of your routine and that's why they love you. Hopefully, that's keep
inspiring the people to support this terrible disaster that we were going through and helps
to recover all the things that we need. Well, you need to go and get a photo but
seeing you've got my microphone, can you throw it back to James and Rebecca?
Back to you, James and Rebecca. Back to you, James and Rebecca.
That's the best throwback I've ever had. He's got a TV career ahead of him. Thank you very much,
Rafa. And what about that? You ready or not?
I'm entirely sure what he's, what's happened here. Oh, they've taken his racket that he's
using at the moment that he wants. So, they've taken his racket that they want to play. Hopefully,
they haven't cut the strings out of it. Goodness me, that's a big mistake. I mean, he's, yeah,
and he knows, knows the tension, knows the sequence he wants to use his rackets in
and, you know, showing respect to Jack and explaining why. You don't often get a first
in a Rafa match after all these years, but that is definitely the first that that would have
happened. Gee, it's worth a bit to that racket. He may never see that again. That might be on
the streets of Melbourne somewhere. I'm sure he'll get it back. But he's had to take one out
of sequence here, hasn't he? Now, I noticed that you, obviously, you play with a lot of intensity,
but you were laughing a couple times. They saw very end of the match, you, someone back there
made you laugh and said something to you. Would you share with the audience and myself what they
said? Quick answer. I don't know if he, you drink some tequilas or what? I get it. Rafa,
do you feel like real life means? It's not interesting today.
I know you were focused on closing your eyes to be more focused on what I'm saying.
Well, it's not just the one play. My famous ass.
Have you ever had a tournament like this where you felt like you've been so up and down? And if
so, how were you able to manage your expectations coming in today? Were you feeling okay? Sorry,
can you repeat the beginning? You've been very up and down. You've had a very good match,
very so-so match in this tournament. No, very so-so, no, very bad.
You can say, no problem.
Well, this will deflate everyone if this ball is called out. Let's see. Oh no, oh no.
Oh, how much more sorry can you feel for the guy?
Just concede it, Rafa. Come on, just once.
Good part there was he got to the ball after stumbling when he moved across the court.
That's what made it was going to make it even better.
A little bit of a disturbance there in the crowd. I don't quite understand what was being said.
Fitz, could you hear what was going on down there?
Couldn't hear the specific language. There's a little bit of ill feeling,
I think, between two ladies. Surely he gets the first serve here, Rafa.
Thanks. You're delaying everything. Are they having a go at Rafa?
No. Or at each other? No, I think it's the security lady at the top and the lady.
No, no, it's not the security lady. She's coming down to try and help.
Well, there's one lady that's getting rather animated.
She might be asked to leave, actually.
Fergus just gave the first serve. Yeah, absolutely.
I think she's having a crack at Rafa. I don't know why.
She's the first person I've ever seen do that.
We've missed fans. We've maybe not missed that type of fan.
That was really wacky. And if she's not a Nadal fan,
she certainly helped Nadal out there by giving him a first serve.
Well, she's not sitting with anyone. No one will sit with her.
How about you, Fitzy? Heck no.
She's gotten the rest of the crowd back into the match a little bit, though.
Absolutely. Well, it's so unnecessary.
It's just one individual that's just made a complete goose of themselves.
They're going to need enough security to carry her out.
Yeah.
Dr. Exhibition down at the other end, though.
This is, well, it's necessary evil to get her out of here.
Rafa's just saying, let's go ahead and play.
Here we go.
Thank you. I love that, actually.
Yeah.
Other sort of stuff to get down to the challenges.
This match interview is going to be pretty long.
