He is considered by many to be the best Spanish athlete of all time and is one of the most admired in the world. Now, after more than 20 years of brilliant career, Rafa Nadal retires from professional tennis. Just a few days before the Majorcan’s farewell to the courts in the 2024 Davis Cup finals, which will be held in Malaga starting next Tuesday, Eurosport pays tribute to the king of clay with the premiere of Passing balls: Rafa Nadal Special. Today, starting at 9:30 p.m., the Eurosport 2 channel premieres this special program produced by Eurosport Spain that will also be available streaming on Max.
Led by Fernando Ruiz, Álex Corretja and Jordi Arrese, who lead the team of experts that for years has conveyed to the Eurosport audience all the emotion of the great milestones achieved by the man from Manacor, Passing balls: Rafa Nadal Special reviews the best of his sporting career. For just over an hour, Eurosport experts offer their vision of the best moments in the career of the world tennis icon through historical images, memorable anecdotes and never-before-seen content.
In addition, the greatest figures in the history of Spanish Olympics, Saúl Craviotto and Teresa Perales, analyze in the program the legacy of Rafa Nadal, his Olympic career, and try to explain what the Mallorcan has meant for the history of sport in our country. .
Since his debut as a professional tennis player in 2002, when he was only 15 years old, the Spaniard has won a total of more than 100 individual and team titles in 22 seasons. A great track record in which his 22 Grand Slam trophies, his 2 Olympic gold medals and his 5 Davis Cup triumphs stand out. Throughout the Mallorcan’s entire career, Eurosport has offered the Spanish public the most iconic moments starring Rafa Nadal on a tennis court.
In Passing balls: Rafa Nadal SpecialRuiz, Corretja, Arrese and the team of experts who have conveyed to viewers for years all the emotion of the victories, defeats, injuries, anecdotes and great moments experienced by Rafa Nadal, share with viewers how they experienced such emotional scenes live. like Roger Federer’s tears after the Spaniard’s victory at the 2009 Australian Open, his exhibitions around the world or the epic comeback against Medvedev in Melbourne in 2022.
But, if there is one court on which Rafa Nadal has forged his legend, it is Roland Garros. From his first title in 2005 to his last Musketeers Cup in 2022, the Eurosport audience has witnessed how the king of clay has become living history of the French Grand Slam by conquering the most iconic clay court tournament. on 14 occasions. Thanks to the Eurosport archive, the anecdotes and curiosities of the experts who narrated the matches and unpublished images that will remain in the memory, the spectators of Passing balls: Rafa Nadal Special They can vibrate again with the best moments of the Manacorí’s 14 titles in Paris.
