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Rafael Nadal said he was not frightened by the Zika virus as he prepares in Brazil — the center of the viral outbreak — for this week’s Rio Open tournament and the city’s Olympics in less than six months.


Nadal won Olympic gold in the Beijing Olympics Chris Heisey Jersey , but missed London with an injury.


“I’m doing the things the people have told me,” Nadal said on Monday. “I’m going out at night. I’m not scared. I’m not worried about this.


“If it happens, it’s bad luck.”


Nadal is the top-seeded man in the tournament and fellow Spaniard David Ferrer is No. 2. Both said they were confident the tournament was doing all it could to control the mosquitoes that spread the virus.


The virus is being linked to birth defects, and pregnant women have been cautioned not to travel to the country.


“I don’t know how serious the situation is,” Nadal said. “I see people living here totally normally. I see people on the streets Bryce Harper Jersey , on the beach and in the restaurants. Things are going on like normal.”


Brazil began a campaign of spraying pesticides and distributing informational leaflets with more than 200,000 soldiers spread out across the country.


Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said “we’re at war against the mosquito” and she has repeatedly guaranteed the outbreak will not derail the Olympics that open August 5.


Ferrer said he’ll wear long sleeves and long trousers when he goes out socially in the morning and evening. “I’ll try to take those precautions, but I’m not obsessed about it,” Ferrer said.


Both Spaniards were asked to reply to comments last week by Spanish swimmer Mireia Belmonte, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in London in 2012 Anthony Rendon Jersey , who said she “would not attend” the Olympics if she thinks her health is at risk.


She echoed American women’s national soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo who said last week “if the Olympics were today, I would not go.”


Neither Nadal nor Ferrer elaborated on Belmonte’s comments. “I have talked to the local players here, and they are not giving it much importance,” Ferrer said. “There is a lot still to be known about Zika and nothing is 100 percent certain.”


Meanwhile, Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic became the first teenager in seven years to reach the top 10 of the WTA rankings after she climbed to ninth in the world on Monday.


A run to the final at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy ensured that Bencic Adam Lind Jersey , 18, became the first woman aged under 20 to enter the top 10 since Caroline Wozniacki in 2009. Maria Sharapova’s triumph at the 2006 US Open was the last time a teenaged player won a slam.

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ROME, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The foreign ministers of the six founding members of the European Union this week recommitted themselves to constructing an ""ever closer union"" at a time when the founding principles of the 28-nation bloc is under threat from internal divisions and a rising tide of migrants.


The summit featuring the foreign ministers of Belgium, France, Germany Adam Eaton Jersey , Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands took place in Rome this week. The location was a tribute to the 1957 Treaty of Rome that created the European Economic Community, which evolved into the European Union.


""We firmly believe that the European Union remains the best answer we have for today's challenges and allows for different paths of integration,"" the ministers said in a joint statement. ""We remain resolved to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the people of Europe.""


The debate over whether the European Union should seek to deepen ties between member states or to instead widen the reach of the EU dates back to the earliest days of the bloc.


The latest pledge to deepen ties comes during what Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said during the summit was ""without a doubt"" one of Europe's ""hardest moments since its foundation almost 60 years ago.""


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