This is a very long interview with Toni Nadal translated by Susan DePalma for tennisfrontier.com. Toni talks about career highlights from 2008 on, Djokovic, Murray, the level of the current men’s game, etc. 

It’s a splendid August afternoon in Porto Cristo, near Manacor, in the eastern part of the sunny island of Mallorca.  There, we are received by Toni Nadal, uncle and coach of Rafael Nadal, and thereby one of the greatest architects – the main one, after Rafael himself – of the success of probably the most important Spanish athlete of all time.  With the blue Mediterranean as the backdrop, we chatted for some two and a half hours, about a little bit of everything; we review some of the critical moments in Rafael’s career, we talked about how he faces victories and defeats, how you mentally prepare a player to help him get into the elite group…