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Rafael Nadal Parera, better known as Rafa Nadal, is a Spanish professional tennis player who occupies the second position in the ATP ranking.
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He is considered one of the best tennis players in all history and the best of all time on clay courts.
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He was born on June 3, 1986 in Manacor, Mallorca Island, Balearic Islands, Spain. His parents are Ana María Parera and Sebastián Nadal Homar; He has a younger sister, María Isabel.
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He was born into a family of athletes, his uncle Miguel Ángel Nadal was a soccer player for FC Barcelona and RCD Mallorca and his uncle Toni Nadal had been a tennis player.
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It was with this that he began with the first strokes of the racket at the age of three.
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He also played soccer, basketball and other sports, but it was at the age of eight, when he won an under-12 tennis title in the Balearic Islands, that his family began to believe in his possibilities.
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To date, he has been champion of 20 Grand Slam tournaments, being, together with the Swiss Roger Federer, the most awarded in the history of men's tennis.
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Laureus Award for Revelation of the Year
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ESPY Award for Best International Athlete
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BBC Award for Foreign Sports Personality
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Laureus Award for Best International Male Athlete of the Year
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ESPY Award for Best Tennis Player
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Laureus World Sports Award for Best International Comeback of the Year
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ITF World Champions for Men's singles
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He married on October 19, 2019 with Maria Francisca (born in Manacor on July 7, 1988) with whom he had been a couple for fourteen years since when he met her she was a classmate of his sister Maribel.
