{"id":18141,"date":"2013-02-19T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/rafa-and-ronaldo-in-the-same-boat\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T11:51:27","slug":"rafa-and-ronaldo-in-the-same-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rafa-and-ronaldo-in-the-same-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafa and Ronaldo in the same boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO \u2013 Clay court master Rafael Nadal is drawing inspiration from the Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo as he returns from injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Ronaldo watching, Nadal won the Brazil Open on Sunday for his first title after a seven-month layoff caused by treatment of his left knee. Nadal said Ronaldo is \u201can example\u201d to be followed because of his determination to rebound from a series of career-threatening knee injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning again, the Spaniard is still bothered by his knee and said he is far from fully recovered, although he hopes the victory will mark a new beginning in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRonaldo is an example to a lot of people because of all that he was able to achieve despite what he had to go through with all the knee problems in his career,\u201d said Nadal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is definitely an example to me. He\u2019s an example of determination and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo overcame three serious knee operations. The former Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter Milan and AC Milan forward won two World Cups with Brazil and holds the tournament\u2019s career scoring record with 15 goals. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/T\/TEN_NADALS_INSPIRATION?SITE=APSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULTCTIME=2013-02-18-11-07-27\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO \u2013 Clay court master Rafael Nadal is drawing inspiration from the Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo as he returns from injury. With Ronaldo watching, Nadal won the Brazil Open on Sunday for his first title after a seven-month layoff caused by treatment of his left knee. Nadal said Ronaldo is \u201can example\u201d to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}