Thanks, Vale, Melu and everyone else. LOVED the interview; and the
translation.

Love this group, the truth is here. Obvious by the 335
membership..........I think the gossip has gone elsewhere, but,
that's O.K.

My nature is to stay with the facts here........you guys are the best.
As the Davis Cup adventure unfolds.......!!!

Best to Argentina.....!!


Holly



--- In gastongaudioclub@yahoogroups.com, "valemart_1"
<valemart_1@y...> wrote:
> Here are excerpts of several Davis Cup articles in today's
> papers:
>
> Monday 19 September 2005
>
> http://www.lanacion.com.ar/740082
>
> BRATISLAVA.-
> On the second day of their practice sessions at the Sibamac
> Arena National Tennis Centre, Gaudio, Nalbandian, Etlis and
> Rodrí§µez indulged in a little easy football, just for the
> exercise, with two members of their technical team: Claudio
> Galasso the trainer. and Diego Rivas the kinesiologist.
>
> "At first I thought the surface wasn't all that fast, but now
> I feel it's pretty fast" said Nalbandian, the best Argentine
> on fast surfaces and coming rival of Dominic Hrbaty on the
> first day of the series.
>
> Gaudio didn't carry out any intensive training due to a
> stomach ailment. His activity was curtailed to just exercizing
> in the hotel gym accompanied by his coach, Franco Davin, who
> was captain of the Argentine team between 1999 and 2001.
> ?????????????..
>
> http://www.lanacion.com.ar/740020
>
> The Argentine team, with Nalbandian, Puerta, Gaudio and the
> captain Alberto Mancini, have already installed their base
> camp at the Danube Hotel, which will also be occupied by the
> Slovak team.
>
> Playing at home the Slovaks have only lost four times, three
> of which were against the powerful teams of the US, Russia
> and Sweden.
>
> Setting aside their disagreements which are public knowledge
> and have more than once brought about clashes, Coria and Gaudio
> have resolved to draw the cart in the same direction; nobody
> can ask them to be friends, but it is a positive sign that
> they are showing this maturity for a peaceful coexistence
> within the group.
>
> ???????????
>
>
> http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/09/19/deportes/d-02501.htm
>
> "It's fast and it's going to be fast", says Nalbandian after
> over two hours training, describing the red court?...?, a court
> where the ball advances at astonishing speed, a higher speed
> than that of the majority of tennis courts.
>
> Alberto Mancini: "At first you might not think so, but when you
> start to play points you realize that it's a very fast surface.
> Not quite as much as when Argentina had to play the Davis Cup
> against Belarus, but really fast anyway"
>
> Puerta and Nalbandian, the doubles team that Mancini has chosen
> for a second time, offer a spectacle worth seeing as they play
> against the experienced pair Gastó® …tlis and Martí® Rodrí±µez.
> Two things are captivating: first, the intensity of the game;
> second, the general good humour. Between the four of them they
> achieve something that is usually absent in high competition:
> they play all out and they laugh all out. For a while Gastó® Š>
Gaudio is also part of that combination of fun and effort. But
> it's only for a while because Gaudio can only carry out a little
> football and a little tennis before having to leave because of
> some digestive problems, accompanied by his coach Franco Davin.
> His early departure doesn't allow Gaudio to know what Karol,
> another of the few curious spectators watching the Argentines'
> activity, thinks of him: "Gaudio's tennis is extraordinary".