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| Full name | Rafael Nadal Parera | ||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) |  Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Manacor, Mallorca, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 June 1986 Manacor, Mallorca, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2001 | ||||||||||||||
| Plays | Left-handed (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Carlos Moyá (2016–) Marc López (2021–)[2] Gustavo Marcaccio (2022–)[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Prize money | US$134,659,704[4] (2nd all-time leader in earnings) | ||||||||||||||
| Official website | rafaelnadal.com | ||||||||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||||||||
| Career record | 1071–222 (82.8%)[a] | ||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 92 (5th in the Open Era) | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (18 August 2008) | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 644 (15 April 2024)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | W (2009, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
| French Open | W (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | W (2008, 2010) | ||||||||||||||
| US Open | W (2010, 2013, 2017, 2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Other tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | F (2010, 2013) | ||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games |  (2008) | ||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Career record | 138–76 (64.5% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) | ||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 11 | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 26 (8 August 2005) | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | 3R (2004, 2005) | ||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 2R (2005) | ||||||||||||||
| US Open | SF (2004) | ||||||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | (2016) | ||||||||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Davis Cup | W (2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2019)[5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: 15 April 2024. | |||||||||||||||
Rafael Nadal Parera[pron 1] (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Nadal has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal has won 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record 14 French Open titles. He has won 92 ATP-level singles titles, including 36 Masters titles and an Olympic gold medal, with 63 of these on clay courts. Nadal is one of only two men to complete the Career Golden Slam in singles.[b] His 81 consecutive wins on clay constitute the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.
For over a decade, Nadal has led men's tennis along with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the Big Three.[c] At the start of his professional career, Nadal became one of the most successful teenagers in ATP Tour history, reaching the world No. 2 ranking and winning 16 titles before turning 20, including his first French Open and six Masters events. Nadal became the world No. 1 for the first time in 2008 after defeating Federer in a historic Wimbledon final, his first major victory off clay. He followed up his win with an Olympic singles gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After defeating Djokovic in the 2010 US Open final, then-24-year-old Nadal became the youngest man in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and the first man to win majors on three different surfaces (hard, grass, and clay) in the same year (Surface Slam).
After two injury-plagued seasons, Nadal returned to the Tour in 2013, reaching 14 finals, winning two majors and five Masters events including the US Open Series sweep (Summer Slam). He continued his dominance at the French Open, securing six titles, two US Open titles, an Australian Open title, and an Olympic doubles gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics with Marc López. Nadal surpassed his joint-record with Djokovic and Federer for the most Grand Slam men's singles titles at the 2022 Australian Open, and became one of four men in history to complete the double Career Grand Slam in singles.
As a left-handed player, one of Nadal's main strengths is his forehand, which he hits with a high degree of topspin. He also regularly places among the Tour leaders in percentage of return games, return points, and break points won. Nadal has won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award five times and was the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2011 and 2021. Time named Nadal one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. He is a recipient of the Grand Cross of Royal Order of Sports Merit, Grand Cross of Order of the Second of May, the Grand Cross of Naval Merit, and the Medal of the City of Paris. Representing Spain, he has won two Olympic gold medals, and led the nation to four Davis Cup titles. Nadal has also opened a tennis academy in Mallorca, and is an active philanthropist.
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- ^ "Champions". The Davis Cup. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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