Rafael Nadal entered Interview Room 1 for his post-match press conference on Tuesday at the Australian Open and looked at his watch. “I was checking how late I am,” he said with a smile. The Spaniard was only about 15 minutes behind, but explained, “In Mallorca, there is a thing, when we are going, we say, ‘I am coming’. [It’s] tough to be 100 per cent on time on an island. But we work [at it] a lot.” Perhaps Nadal was delayed because he was still celebrating his first-round win at the Australian Open, beating Florian Mayer with ease in straight sets in just over two hours. There was little to stress about in the match, in which he won...
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