Rafa Nadal has put an end to his career. Yesterday the last game was played in Málagawell in the Davis CupNadal faced the Dutch Van de Zandschulp and was defeated in two sets (6-4, 6-4), finally Spain failed to beat the Netherlands, Alcaraz’s victory was not enough, losing again in the doubles . Málaga and everyone said goodbye to the man from Manacor, however, his positive record in the race is something that will be written forever.
The professional career of Rafa Nadal He started his professional career at the age of 15 and it took him two years to get his first title, from there he started winning until he got the total amount of 92 individually and 11 in doubles, including gold medals in the Olympics from Beijing 2008 and Rio 2016. Nadal is the fifth player with the most ATP titles, he is 17 behind Jimmy Connors in first place.
Rafa Nadal has reached the number of 1,080 total wins and 227 losseswith a percentage of more than 82 percent effectiveness and if we talk about the “king of clay“, Nadal has more than 90 percent effective with a total of 484 victories and only 51 defeats on that surface. Another surprising percentage of Manacor’s is the almost 95 percent effectiveness after winning the first set, where he has achieved 953 wins and 53 losses.
Furthermore, in the Davis Cup He has only had two defeats, in his debut in 2004 and the last one yesterday in his last participation. Nadal’s successful career has led him to obtain the “Golden Slam” in his career, by winning all four tournaments Grand Slam and the gold medal in the Olympic Games regardless of the year in which it is achieved. Another record held by Manacor is the most weeks in the top 10 (912) and is the only tennis player in history who has managed to be number 1 in the ATP ranking in three different decades.
The history with his greatest rivals Federer and Djokovic
The rivalry between Nadal and Roger Federer It has been framed in the history of tennis, in addition to being great competitors, they are friends and this has been demonstrated by the Swiss in the emotional letter he dedicated to Rafa. “Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me. A lot. More than I could beat you. You challenged me in ways that no one else could,” were some of the words that Federer dedicated to him. Officially the history between these two is 24 victories in favor of Rafa and 16 for Federer and in the finals it ended favorably for Nadal, 14 victories to 10 for the Swiss.
On the part of the confrontations against Novak Djokovicboth players are the ones who have won the most respectively. The first time they faced each other was in 2006 at Roland Garros, when Nadal beat Djokovic on clay in the quarterfinals, while Novak had to wait for Miami in 2007, when the Serbian achieved his first victory against Nadal. The last time they faced each other was in the Paris 2024 Olympic Gameswhen in the second round Djkovic beat Manacor in two sets, the story finally ended with 31 victories for Djokovic and 29 for Nadal.
