Why do elite tennis players put themselves through so much, with millions in the bank?
The documentary traces Nadal’s 22 Grand Slam titles and the foot surgery pain that kept him competing with an insole for decades.
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Why do elite tennis players put themselves through so much, with millions in the bank?
Add Rafa to your watchlistThis week sees the eyes of tennis fans, along with the huge zoom lenses of sports photographers, swivel to the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris for the 125th French Open. Right on cue, it also sees the launch on Netflix of Rafa, a four-hour documentary series charting the mixed fortunes of the tournament’s greatest-ever champion, Rafael Nadal. In this now rite-of-passage format for retiring sports stars, we follow the bas…
How Nadal continued tennis career with broken foot bone
Tennis legend Rafael Nadal talks to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about the pain and injury behind his extraordinary success, ahead of the release of his new Netflix documentary “Rafa.” Watch the full interview Thursday 1pmEST on CNN International.
In an interview, tennis legend Rafael Nadal talks about why he cannot fully enjoy the new Netflix documentary about himself, what he is most proud of in his career, and about physical damage that will remain.
Nadal’s Body Paid the Price for Tennis’s Myth of Invincibility
Tennis: Nadal’s Body Paid the Price for Tennis’s Myth of Invincibility Rafael Nadal’s career always looked superhuman from the outside. The endless sliding on clay. The violent forehands. The impossible defensive recoveries. The marathon matches where he somehow appeared physically stronger in the fifth hour than opponents looked in the first. But the mythology surrounding Nadal often hid a darker reality underneath it. In recent comments reflec…
It is undeniable that Rafael Nadal had one of the greatest careers in the history of tennis. There were 22 Grand Slam titles in total, including a record of 14 Roland Garros titles and 209 weeks as the number one in the world — all of this acting, possibly, in the most competitive era of male tennis. Although his achievements have been widely documented, what few people know is how close everything was to never happening — and how an injury suff…
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