About Rafael Nadal

Here´s a quick information about the great Nadal and his achivements.

The famous Nadal

Nadal is avery famous spanish tennis player , he is regarded as the best clay court player in the history so that people calls him the king of clay .
Nadal has won 14 Grand Slam singles titles, the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles, 28 titles in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events, and 17 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments a record tied with Roger Federer). He was also a member of the winning Spain Davis Cup team in 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2011. In 2010, he became the seventh player in history and youngest of four in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam at age 24. He is the second male player, after Andre Agassi, to complete the singles Career Golden Slam. In 2011, Nadal was named theLaureus World Sportsman of the Year.The left-hander is the sixth player in the Open Era to reach more than a century of finals on the ATP World Tour.

 when he was eight years old he won the under 12 regional tennis championship
he began to play as a professional tennis palyer in 2001 at the age of 15.

he is a left handed player. Nadal turned professional and participated in two events on the ITF junior circuit. In 2002, at the age of 16, Nadal reached the semifinals of the Boy's Singles tournament at Wimbledon, in his first ITF junior event.