Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish tennis player. Already over five seasons (2008, 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2019) as the world number one. In total, he was at the top of the world classification for 209 weeks. In his career, Nadal has won eighty-nine individual victories and eleven in doubles.

Nadal has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles to date, surpassing the record from the list, along with Roger Federer and Novak Đoković. Any tennis player in history has won a tournament of the Grand Slam in singles more often than Nadal won the French Open with thirteen victories in tournaments.

Christmas has been a success four times in the Open Sea of the United States, in addition to two victories at Wimbledon and won a title at the Australian Open. This makes it one of only eight players who have won at least once from each of the four tournaments of the Grand Slam.

In addition, Nadal won the gold medal in singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the gold medal in doubles at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic games together with Marc López. Five times (2004, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2019) Christmas won the Davis Cup with the Spanish team. At the beginning of 2011, he was elected as the World Athlete of the Year in 2010 for his work, ten years later, that is to say, in 2020, he was honoured for the second time with the Laureus World Sports Award.

Nadal holds the record of longest winning gust of clays. Between April 2005 and May 2007, he won eighty-one consecutive parties in the mud before losing to Roger Federer in the final of the Hamburg Masters tournament. He won the Masters tournament in Monte Carlo eleven times, the ATP 500 tournament in Barcelona up to twelve times. For many, the most successful clay court player of recent years, is considered the best player in this area in the history of tennis. For this reason, it is also called "Sandplatzkönig".

Rafael Nadal Parera

Rafael Nadal Parera was born in Manacor, on the island of Mallorca to Sebastian Nadal and Ana Maria Parera. His paternal grandfather was the same name as a musician and orchestra conductor Rafael Nadal (1929-2015). His full name is Rafael Nadal Parera, with his first surname, Christmas meaning of Christmas in the Catalan spoken in Mallorca. It has a sister named Maria Isabel (Maribel).

Father Sebastian has a glass window of the company in Manacor, where the extension of family Christmas, including Rafael Nadal Parera, still alive today. After the 10 weeks. Christmas, he left school at the age of 16 years. In favour of his sports career, he renounced most of the school education. Since 2005 he has been in a relationship with María Francisca Perelló, whom he married on October 19, 2019, in Pollença. Both struggles to keep their lives private and away from the public as possible.

Rafael Nadal has created his own tennis academy with a sports hall and a museum of his hometown of Manacor. He lives in the Mallorcan town of Porto Cristo.

At the beginning of her childhood, Rafael was interested in the sport, and not less important, because three of his uncles were professional athletes. His aunt and uncle Rafael Nadal and Miguel Ángel Nadal were both professional footballers, with Rafael playing in the Mallorca Football League and Miguel Ángel playing for RCD Mallorca and FC Barcelona. With Barça, during this time he earned five championships of Spain, as well as a time the European Cup of National Champions and played with several dozens of matches of the Spanish national team.

His uncle Toni Nadal was a well-known tennis player in the home island, but he had only moderate success as a professional in the Spanish peninsula, and then, dedicated to the training of the youth. It so happened that a young boy who was to play the sport, with football being his greatest passion. At the age of seven years, he started at the local football club in Manacor, as a left striker, with his team he won the Championship of the Balearic Islands as eleven years of age. His enthusiasm for football has survived to this day, is still a passionate Real Madrid fan.

At the age of four years, he began to play tennis in a small group, which was coached by his uncle Toni. Recognize and promote the talent at an early age. Although tennis was a bit boring for little Rafael Nadal Parera, and he preferred to play football, achievements set of principles. He took part in tournaments from the age of seven years. At the age of eight he won the Balearic Islands Under the age of Twelve Championship and at the age of thirteen years, the U14 Championship, though at that time she had broken the little finger of the left hand in a fall in the first round of the tournament. Today, these victories are among the most important for him in her way to become a tennis professional.

Coach of Rafael Nadal Parera

His uncle Toni was and is, as his long-time coach, significantly involved in its success. Although the members of the family used to be worried that Toni asks the boy is too difficult, but his father is more peaceful and relaxed way is always a certain balance to Toni who strives to achieve success. However, the intense and rigorous training, as well as the mental training for Toni Nadal, together with Rafael Nadal Parera talent, only have made him one of the greatest tennis players in the world.

By chance, at the age of 14 years, Rafael Nadal first got the opportunity to compete in a preparatory match against a big name in tennis. When Boris Becker, who was supposed to be Pat Cash of the opponent, fell out in the short term, Nadal got his chance, unexpectedly beat the 1987 champion of Wimbledon.

Christmas was looking for a way professional journey of an hour and was first registered as a professional player in 2001, at the age of 15 years. He completed his first two tournaments in Spain, but they were already finished for him in the first two rounds.

In 2002, he achieved his first victory on the ATP Tour. In his homeland, he was defeating Ramón Delgado in the first round. In the same year, he won six titles in small Spanish tournaments of the Future of the series. In the month of June, he reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in the beginning in the junior tour. At the end of 2002, Nadal had improved in the world ranking 611 places in the ranking of two hundred.

Rafael Nadal Parera and the season 2003

At the start of the season in 2003, he made some final appearances on the ATP Challenger Tour before qualifying for a Master's degree from the Series of the tournament for the first time in April. In Monte Carlo, he recorded victories over Karol Kučera and Albert Costa before losing in the third round to eventual finalist Guillermo Coria. With these ranking points, which could now regularly participate in tournaments of the ATP Tour. An injury prevented its first exit at the French Open. In his first appearance at Wimbledon, at the age of 17 years old, he became the youngest player since Boris Becker to reach the third round, where he lost to Paradorn Srichaphan. Her best performance of the tour then continued with the semi-final entry in the tournament in Umag, where he lost to his compatriot Carlos Moyá. Already this season, its special strength is shown in sand - scored eleven of his fourteen victories in this area. At the end of the year, Nadal was ranked forty-nine in the world.

In early 2004, he reached his first tournament on the ATP final in Auckland, losing to Dominik Hrbatý. In his Australian Open debut, Nadal advanced to the third round, where he lost to Lleyton Hewitt. In the Masters of Miami, which was able to defeat world number one Roger Federer, for the first time, and advance to the round of eight. In the tournament of Estoril, he reached the quarterfinals, to which, however, could not compete due to a stress fracture in the metatarsal bone. The injury that forced him to take three months off. In August, Nadal won a tournament on the ATP for the first time, his last rival in Sopot was José Acasuso. At the us Open, she reached the semi-finals of a tournament of the Grand Slam in doubles for the first time next to Tommy Robredo.

In December, Rafael Nadal Parera was part of the Spanish team that beat the United States 3-2 in the final of the Davis Cup. At the time of his victory over Andy Roddick, was the second-youngest player (after Boris Becker 1985) to win a single match in a Davis Cup final at the age of 18 years and six months.