Rafa Nadal famously mentioned “struggling” is a prerequisite to Grand Slam success.
In its new Rafa documentary, Netflix lifts the curtain on the agonizing ache and exhilarating ardour the King of Clay delivered to the court docket.
Netflix shared a trailer for the Rafa documentary, which airs on Might twenty ninth.
“I’m not a winner. I’m a competitor,” Nadal says in his mission assertion that opens the documentary. “What at all times motivated me is the will to maintain combating.”
“Rafael Nadal faces the tip of his beautiful profession and long-term dwelling in tennis’ Mount Olympus with only one factor in thoughts: one final triumph,” Netflix mentioned in an announcement accompanying the trailer. “His closing foe isn’t a competitor, however his physique.
“We are going to accompany him in his lengthy goodbye and, for the primary and final time ever, he’ll share the intimate highs and lows which have turned him into one of many largest athletes of all time.”
The King of Clay acquired a rousing hero’s welcome in his return to the Australian Open in January the place he sat in a baseline field watching Carlos Alcaraz rally previous Novak Djokovic within the AO closing to make historical past because the youngest man to seize the profession Grand Slam.
Extra just lately, Nadal has spent a while on court docket hitting with WTA stars Iga Swiatek and Alexandra Eala on the Rafa Nadal Academy in his native Mallorca.
