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"Yesterday afternoon happened the [most] strange thing ever happen to me," he told reporters. "I was sitting on a chair in the hotel. I felt like a crack on the knee, but is nothing really strange. Happens lot of time with articulation, movement, articulation. Nothing strange. I stand up. I felt the knee a little bit strange. I moved the leg two times to try to find the feeling. After the second time, the knee stays with an unbelievable pain completely straight. I have no movement on the knee. I had a hard afternoon. And seriously, yesterday during the evening I wasn't 100 percent sure I would have chance to play, because with the movement of that knee I felt that I will not be able to play. I did a lot of treatment...Finally what happened is with the movement, articulation, probably pinch maybe the tendon little bit or something that put the tendon completely straight. We did a lot of work during the evening. At the end of the night with a lot of pain, but I finally really had the full movement of the knee. I woke up today with a little bit better feeling. I started the match with a little bit of scare at the beginning, and nervous. But after the first 10 games that was scare, I started to play with normal conditions. The best thing is I felt the knee very well."---Rafael Nadal as reported on tennis.com

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He thinks he pinched his tendon. I wonder how much he knows about knee morphology.

Pinched tendon does seem a bit out there, but what do you think?  Slight meniscus tear?

This is beyond my pay grade, but the bottom line is that he will have a lot of doubt in his head against a stronger player.  I don't see him getting past the quarters with this kind of mental state.

Nadal is really taking this doubting tom perspective further than any other former #1 player I have seen. He did just fine against Haas, didn't he? Won in straights!

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