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Rafael Nadal on Talk Asia

"I'm not a machine, and like everybody I have better moments than others," Rafael Nadal told CNN in Shanghai.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Anticlimactic feeling comes with season's end for players, fans

A few thoughts as tennis takes its annual autumnal tumble off the radar ...

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: WTA Tour compellingly unpredictable

A few thoughts as the season winds to an end ...

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Wimbledon men's seed report

SI.com's Jon Wertheim breaks down the men's and women's seeds at Wimbledon. Read on for the top first-round matchups, dark horses to watch and his predicted winners.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: How Robin Soderling upset Rafael Nadal

SI.com caught up with Jon Wertheim to get his impressions of No. 23 seed Robin Soderling's stunning upset of No. 1 Rafael Nadal at the French Open.

SI.com: Kevin Armstrong: Five things we learned at the Aussie

Five things we learned from the Australian Open men's final while most of America slept:

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Nadal and Williams are king and queen of their sport

He stands 6' 1", weighs 185 pounds and can send a tennis ball pretty much anywhere he pleases. He's won on a variety of surfaces, collecting Grand Slam singles titles at a breakneck pace. He projects professionalism and grace and a distinctly European dignity. For all his success, he remains modest and grounded, uninterested in the usual trappings of modern celebrity, attracting attention only with his play.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: The Chinese market, year-end predictions and Federer's true earnings

How long until we see a major championship in Asia? Asia (China specifically) is such a large market for tennis to expand into that it seems like a wasted opportunity to not have a major there every year. -- Jeremy, Marietta, Ga

Time.com: Nadal, Williams Win Olympic Debuts

Nadal made a successful debut in Olympic singles Monday, overcoming numerous missed chances by sweeping the final four games to beat Potito Starace of Italy 6-2, 3-6, 6-2

SI.com: Frank Deford: Where southpaws rule the world

If you're interested in having your son support you in your old age, here is my vocational advice to you: starting when he's in the crib, turn him into a left-hander, and then train him to become a relief pitcher. There's always a well-paying place for layabout southpaw relievers, well up into their athletic dotage. You see, while lefties moan that the world at large discriminates against them, our sinister brethren have all the advantages in sports whenever they directly face right-handers. Now an engineering professor named David Peters has come up with some basic statistics, which show what we righties always knew anyway, that baseball in particular is a gauche paradise. And that ain't no left-handed compliment.

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