Intro:

French Open champion and top seed Rafa Nadal was unceremoniously dumped out of the Halle Open grass court championship in Germany on Thursday (12th June), the Spaniard suffering a 6-4, 6-1 defeat inside an hour at the hands of world number 85 Dustin Brown of Germany.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Rafa Nadal:

"The only thing I can do is to keep working the way that I did the last three days, since I arrived here. I tried hard, I tried my best and... unlucky with the draw, becasue at the end this match has zero value for preparing (for) Wimbledon, because I really didn't find not one feeling, not one normal point, so that... that makes the match negative in all ways because I lost, first negative thing, and then when you lose and you can think positive that I really had the chance to play points, to be on rhythm, was not that case, so just... I am sad for me, I am sad for the tournament too, that at the end he (Brown) put the confidence on me to be here (having lost), but at the same time, the only thing I can say is that I tried and when somebody tried, i tried my best and it was not possible."

SOUNDBITE (English) Rafa Nadal:

"I'm going to fly to Wimbledon on Wednesday early morning, and I'm going to play a practice that few days there. I don't know if I'm going to have one match or not before (the tournament starts), or exhibitions there, I don't know, I didn't make it (any arrangements), but you never know. That's it, I'm going to try to work hard, try to rest a little bit and try to be ready for the next one (tournament / match)."