Rafael Nadal Says He Is ‘Close to Retirement,’ Talks Roger Federer Stepping Back from Professional Tennis Naomi Osaka Set to Make Post-Pregnancy Return to Tennis for 2024 Australian Open ...

Rafael Nadal has a message for everything saying and writing that this will be his final French Open. “Don't assume that,” he told reporters with a grin ahead of the start of the tournament on ...

Rafael Nadal is retiring from tennis right on time By Matthew Futterman Oct. 11, 2024Updated Nov. 19, 2024 ...

Rafael Nadal ’s tennis career has long been an exercise in solving riddles, for him and for everyone else. There were the early days, of wondering whether someone really could play tennis like that.

MALAGA, Spain — Rafael Nadal bit his lower lip and his reddened eyes welled with tears as he stood alongside his Davis Cup teammates for Spain’s national anthem Tuesday before what he — and ...

Rafael Nadal still really likes playing tennis Most players, but not Rafa Nadal. We found him blasting away at practice every morning, deploying his lefty forehand and double-fisted backhand.

Rafael Nadal didn’t say goodbye to Madrid in triumph, but he did leave the way we’ll remember him best: With a fight “It’s a difficult day, but my body is giving me a signal that I should ...

Rafa!” and waving those red-and-yellow flags that had been scrunched up in their laps for most of the afternoon, Nadal somehow erased the entire deficit and pulled even at 4-4.

And so it is for Rafael Nadal in this through-the-looking-glass spring. For years, no place felt more like home than a red clay court. He could lose matches sometimes. Everyone does.

With 14 French Open titles now to his name, the sporting world is running out of superlatives to describe Rafael Nadal. For one athlete to have so much success at a single event is wholly ...

PARIS — Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have won and done so much in nearly 20 years of hoarding the loot in men’s tennis. But there is one gap in each member of the Big Three ...

Rafael Nadal (Translation): He always managed to have a peaceful, normal life - close to his family. And for me, that was a very good example.