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Australian Open defending champion and world number one Rafael Nadal has said that he can't understand why tournament organisers have decided to make the courts quicker, as he prepares to face home favourite Bernard Tomic in the first round.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Rafael Nadal:
"Completely different conditions than what I remembered at this tournament. Faster conditions that I ever played here in Australia. Well I really don't understand very well why they changed (the conditions) because the last couple of years, the Australian Open had amazing matching, long ones, good ones for the crowd. I don't know why the people who decide to make the conditions that fast."

"It is true that it is important to give me another chance here in Australia in the next couple of years starting for this one. Win both, every Grand Slam twice, will be something really difficult. I am going to try to do it in the next couple of years, but knowing that (it) always is a big challenge. I was not lucky in this tournament in the past."