Raphael Nadal Parera is the popular tennis player of today. With sinking hearts we are watching tournaments with his participation and are happy him to win.
The famous Spanish tennis player Raphael Nadal Parera was born on the 3rd June of 1986 in Manacore Spain. Rafael Nadal is the nephew of former defender of FC Barcelona Miguel Angel Nadal. In July 2010, Rafael has acquired stake in football club Mallorca. His professional career was being started in 2001.
He is the first racket of the world in singles at the moment (since 7 June 2010), as well as from 18 August 2008 still July 5, 2009 (for 46 weeks). Raphael Nadal is the winner of the nine Grand Slam tournaments, the Olympic champion in 2008. After winning in New York, Raphael Nadal joined a very small club of players, who are winners of all Grand Slam tournaments. Such success had six tennis players: Fred Perry, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Andre Agassi and Roger Federer. In the world of tennis there is so called “Golden Slam”. This is when the tennis player wins for his career not only all the tournaments, but also adds to them the title of Olympic champion. But such a “Golden Slam” belongs only two successful tennis players – Nadal (Beijing, 2008) and Andre Agassi.
Raphael Nadal plays more successfully on the clay courts. (in June 2010 he won 203 matches from 219 at this coverage on the level ATP). Despite the fact that Raphael was playing with his left hand in his life he is right-handed.
From 25 July, 2005 to August 17, 2008 during the 161 weeks Nadal has continually been the second racket of the world. After reaching the second place in the ranking at the age of 19 years, he repeated the achievement of Boris Becker, who also had the second position at such teenage age. From August 18, 2008 to July 5, 2009 Raphael was the first racket of the world (46 weeks). He has many successful tournaments of the Grand Slam.His advances in Grand Slam tournaments are: five-time winner of the French Open tennis (2005-2008, 2010); Two-time winner of Wimbledon (2008, 2010); Winner of the Australian Open (2009); Winner of the U.S. Open (2010); three-time winner of the Davis Cup in the national team of Spain (2004, 2008, 2009).
Nadal holds the record for number of consecutive matches on the same coverage – from April 8, 2005 to May 20, 2007, he won in 1981 on the ground. Win series started after the defeat of Igor Andreev in Valencia and was interrupted by the win of Roger Federer in the final of Masters Series in Hamburg with the score 2-6 6-2 6-0.
In winter 2009, Raphael Nadal won the Australian Open for the first time, defeating in the finals in 5 sets by Roger Federer. Nadal became the first Spaniard, who won that tournament, and the first tennis player since Andre Agassi, who won the Grand Slam tournaments on hard, ground and grass. In September 2010 Nadal finally have won the last of the Grand Slam – U.S. Open. Particularly noteworthy that Nadal became the youngest winner of “Career Slam” among Tennis Professionals and the second of the existing tennis after Federer. Before that, he twice reached the semi-finals (2008 and 2009) in New York. Among the tournament series “Masters” on the hard Nadal wasn’t been winning in Miami, Cincinnati, Shanghai and Paris.
On the 2nd of May 2007, he took part in an exhibition game “Battle of coatings” against Roger Federer, where he gained.
Nadal holds the record of 6 wins in a row on a master tournament in Monte Carlo. Nobody often won a single tournament in a row, except for a Briton Lawrence Doherty, who won Wimbledon from 1902 to 1906.
But these wins are not the last. Admires of tennis and fans of Nadal are waiting for new winnings and achivements. Raphael Nadal is the great tennis player, who has a great sport future.
