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发帖数: 199 | 1 Toni was tough on me right from the start," Rafael said in his autobiography
, which is being serialised in the Telegraph. "If he saw my head was
wandering he would belt the ball hard at me … to scare me, to startle me to
attention.
"My mother remembers that, as a small child, sometimes I'd come home from
training crying. Toni never let up. Once I started playing competitive games
, aged seven, it got tougher. One very hot day I went to a match without my
bottle of water. I'd left it at home. He could have gone and bought me one,
but he didn't, so I'd learn to take responsibility."
Meanwhile, Rafael blames his uncle for a tendency to feel out of sorts in
the early rounds of tournaments - a trait in evidence at the Rogers Cup last
week, when he surprisingly fell in the first round to Ivan Dodig.
"While Toni's refusal to let me off the hook has its value, in that he
pushes me always to improve and do better, it can also be bad because he
creates insecurity," Rafael said.
"I often feel this way, especially in the early rounds of a tournament, and
the truth is that while he deserves credit for so many good things in my
career, he also deserves blame for me being more insecure than I ought to be
." | g*y
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