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Rafa Nadal was born in Manacor (Mayorca) the 3rd june 1986. His parents is Ana María Parea and Sebastián Nadal. Also he has a little sister, her name is María Isabel.
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In 1990, when he has only 3 years old, he touched his first racket. his "couch" was his oncle, that he also was a tennis player.
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Since 1997 Antonio Nadal, his oncle is Rafa's coach. He give to him all his awards.
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In 1998 when he was 12, he lost his first final versus a 16 years old guy.
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Since 2004 he is in the team Davis. He plays whith Roberto Bautista, Pablo Carreño, Feliciano Lopez y Marcel Granollers.
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He won in 2004 his first copa Davis. He was just added at this team few months before
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In 2005 Rafa won his first award. It was in the Roland Garros. He won versus Mariano Puerta
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In 2008 He won a Golden slam (is the award that you win when you win 4 grand slam and 1 gold olympic medal). He got it a few days later of the olympic games of Pekin, when he arrived to spain. He's also the younggest man in win it.
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In 2008 three years later of his first award he won his first Wimbledon. He thought that he's going to loose it. But he won, versus Roger Federer
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In the Pekin olympic games he won in the solo category his first olympic gold medal. He won versus Fernando Gonzalez.
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He won his first and last Australia open in 2009 versus Roger Federer. Roger thought that he's going to won, but when Rafa won him, he started to cry.
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He won his first EE.UU. open in the 2010. He won versus Novak Djokovic.
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He won won with one of his best friends, Marc Lopez. He said: "I'm really happy to won whith a friend." They won a gold medal in the olympic games of Río de Janeiro.
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In 2018 he was considerated the best tennis playerin the ATP. This was thanks to the Novak Djokovic injury.
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He got married whith Xisca Perello. The wedding was in Mallorca, the hometown of bouth.