The �Manacor� returns after his participation in the Games of Athens and his first victory in a tournament on the ATP Circuit.

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"I am not going to celebrate it. On Thursday I already have to train for the US Open.� This is the harsh reality of the tennis world. Rafael Nadal, the Mallorcan tennis player who won his first tournament on the ATP Circuit the past Sunday in Poland, returned from Athens yesterday after being eliminated in the first round of doubles play at the Olympic Games, in which he partnered with Carlos Moy�. The Manacor� player showed his happiness with the attainment of the title (it allowed to him to return to be among the top 50 players in the world and thirty five in the Champions Race) and he explained that he is only going to have one day of rest.

Rafael Nadal assured us after his arrival in Palma that �it has been a very important victory for me. Mentally it was necessary because it was hard to see me ranked seventy, after having been ranked thirty with the objective of being among the top twenty in the world. With this victory I return among the top fifty. In addition, I earned a title, which is very important.� His participation in Athens has been short, but the Manacor� tennis player extracts positive conclusions. �I arrived at the Olympic Village at four o'clock in the early morning. I got up a little late, I went to train and to eat and right after we played. The court was very fast, the balls were different. Carlos was also tired because had just played for three hours. The match got away from us, but I am happy to have participated. I was there for two days and it went well. It is truly a very pretty environment.�

Rafael Nadal has already taken his day of rest -golf in the morning and the beach in the afternoon-, but tomorrow he returns to training because the US Open, the fourth Grand Slam of the season, begins on August 30. �I know that I cannot finish among the top twenty this year, but I will try to finish among the top thirty and in order to do so, the US Open is very important. It is a surface that is neither very fast nor very slow, that I believe I can do well on it. I want to focus because a good part of what is left of the season will be played on that type of surface.�