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He was born in Manacor,Baleares
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Toni Nadal,his uncle,was a tennis player and in charge of teaching Nadal to hold the racket since 1990
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In 2001,Rafa Nadal began his career as a tennis player reaching the second round of the Seviller Challenger when he was only 15 years old
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His first victory in an ATP match was in Mallorca in 2002 with a couple of months to go before he turned 16
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2004 was a key year for Nadal’s sporting life.At just 18 years old,the manacorí was an essential piece in the triumph of the Spanish tennis team in the Davis Cup against the United States and won his first great title
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He is part as an international player of the Davis Cup Team os Spain since 2004
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He won his first Roland Garros in 2005 in front of Mariano Puerta
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In 2008 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias award for sports
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He won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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In five occasions he has ended the year being the number 1 tennis player in the world in the ATP ranking:his first time was in 2008 and he repeated in 2010,2013,2017 and 2019;He also finished seven seasons as number two,one as number three,one as number four and one as number five
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He obtained the Golden Slam in the race and is the youngest male tennis player in history to achieve it,at 24 years and 103 days in 2010
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In 2010 he became the only tennis player in history to win the Clay Slam or the Slam of Clay
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In 2013 he became the third player in history to win the Summer Slam
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He won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics Games
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-Her girlfriend is the manacorí Mery Perelló with whom he has been dating since 2005 and with whom he married in Mallorca in 2019
