Rafael Nadal Biography – He Took The World Of Tennis By Storm
Written by Gery Boton on December 20, 2009 – 11:37 am -Rafael Nadal Parera, nicknamed “Rafa” has taken the tennis world by storm during the past five years. He has fast made his way through the professional tennis circuit and has had a phenomenal streak of wins. This Rafael Nadal biography, takes a very brief look at just what this young man has managed to accomplish in such a short space of time.
Rafa is now ranked as the second best singles tennis player world-wide. He has had sixty consecutive tennis wins on the clay-courts and as winning streaks go, this is quite remarkable.
Born on 3 June 1986 in Manacor, Majorca, Spain, he has a sporting background. His uncle Miguel Angel Nadal played professional football when he was only 15 years of age and played for F. C. Barcelona between 1986 and 2001.
This young man was also only the tender age of 15 when he won his first ATP in Mallorca. The person he played to win this title was Ramon Delgado, and this win ensured that Rafa became the 9th player in an ATP during the “Open” era to win the Championship before he was 16 years of age. The following year he was ranked in the top 100 best tennis players in the world and was the second youngest player to achieve this remarkable feat.
Making a debut at Wimbledon aged 16 years in 2003, he managed to reach the 3rd round. No tennis player since Boris Becker had done this. His meteoric rise to fame continued and by 2005 saw him ranked the 5th best tennis singles player, making him the youngest player to make it into the top ten since Andrei Medvedev.
This Rafael Nadal biography tells us he has set some historic records in tennis annals. He is the 4th youngest champion of Roland Garros, the 7th player to win a Grand Slam on their first appearance, and since Pete Sampras won the 1990 US open at age 19, Rafa is the first teenager to do this again. This young man has become a tennis open hero and is best known for being the winner of 4 consecutive French Open competitions, and for being Roger Federer’s arch nemesis.
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