Ok, so Rafael Nadal might actually be returning to tennis for real in Chile next week at a clay court tournament. He MIGHT. So let's not get our hopes up too much. He admits that his knee is still a source of pain for him, but he should be able to win this tournament because he's the top seed there. The next best player is Juan Monaco, someone Nadal has a 4-1 winning record against. I'm expecting to see him play well, but he won't be at top form. It's almost impossible to stop for 7 months and return playing exactly the way you left off.
And since some of you probably miss watching and talking about the Australian Open, here are some wrap-up facts about the tournament. A total of 684,457 fans attended the event; the most on one day was 80,735 on the Saturday in the middle of the tournament. 720 journalists, photographers and commentators attended, with around 315 international media from 40 different countries. The tournament was broadcasted in over 200 countries on over 27 networks and 1000 broadcast medias. There have been over 14.1 million pageviews to the official website, 887,158 likes on Facebook and 155,738 followers on Twitter. The Australian Open Android App is even more popular, with over 47 million pageviews. AOTV received around 7,000,000 views, while Australian Open Youtube got around 8,865,829. About 45,000 Wilson tennis balls and 2,500 Australian open towels were used throughout the course of the tournament. Impressive!
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