Hi everyone!

Well, I am still jumping and shouting after the football match yesterday. What a match. Don't get me wrong, simply I just love football and I am happy Spain is doing well. We deserve it. But I am also thinking about tomorrow's match against Kiefer.

I heard somewhere that someone said it was not very professional for me to have asked the tournament to put my match early so I could watch the football. I didn't ask them to cancel my match. Come on! I only kindly asked if it was possible to schedule me early ... anyway, jokes aside, I am really focused and thinking about tomorrow's match against Nicolas Kiefer, from Germany.

May I say that he is a very difficult player, one that I have played twice this year on a different surface (hard). It’s not easy. I am playing well now but still this will be a difficult game.

Today the surprise. It rained!!! That brought back memories from last year. I had a practice scheduled for 2pm and had to change it to 4pm. I had arrived to the club at 12.50pm to get ready for the practice. When I left home it was raining so I knew practice would be late so I decided to have lunch at the club - pasta with salmon. I think I have eaten less onsite this year than when I used to go home and have lunch there if it was a day I wasn’t playing.

The funny thing today was that some pasta got stuck in my throat ... just like the banana a year ago. My physio helped me and everything is okay but it was very funny. After practice I had to do some a film shoot for something for the NIKE website and the olympics. So it was a busy, late afternoon. It took me over an hour and a half. I always have something on but it’s okay as this way I keep myself busy and the day of the match comes faster.

Thanks to all and hope to write tomorrow.

Rafa