Maybe it was the name. Back in 2005, when I first came under the spell of Rafael Nadal, there weren’t many Rafaels (or Raphaels) to be found in Britain — we were a rare breed. Benítez had recently been installed as manager of Liverpool but I was no football fan. Instead I was fast on my way to becoming a tennis nut, yet my two previous favourite male players, the American Andre Agassi and the Russian Marat Safin, were fading or nursing injury.
也许是因为名字。回到2005年，当我第一次被拉斐尔·纳达尔(Rafael Nadal)迷住的时候，在英国并没有多少叫“拉斐尔”的人——我们是一个罕见的品种。贝尼特斯（Benítez）当时被任命为利物浦的主教练，但我不是足球迷。然而，我很快就变成了一个网球迷，而我之前最喜欢的两位男选手——美国选手安德烈·阿加西(Andre Agassi)和俄罗斯选手马拉特·萨芬(Marat Safin)——正在逐渐下滑，或者与伤病抗争。
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