Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
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Rafael Nadal missed last year’s U.S. Open with a bum left knee and ended up watching the final on TV from his home on the Spanish island of Majorca.
“For sure I watched the final,” Nadal said with a smile in reference to Andy Murray’s historic five-set win over Novak Djokovic. “It was a great final, but was not a strange feeling because most of the times that I played Grand Slam I watched the final on TV, so at the end is nothing completely new.”
What is new is that Nadal comes roaring into this year’s Open having gone 15-0 on hardcourts in 2013 and won back-to-back hardcourt tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati.
A year ago, many wondered whether Nadal would have to cut back on his hardcourt schedule because of the punishment his balky left knee was taking as a result of his grueling groundstroke game.
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