Rafa Nadal: The tennis champion who kept coming back to Manacor

Rafa Nadal won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, but ask where his story starts and you’ll be looking at Manacor. His uncle Toni coached him from childhood, and Manacor is also where Nadal established his academy. There’s something rather lovely about a sporting career that took him around the world and brought so much of it back to his home town.

The town behind the tennis

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A day in Manacor, with or without a racket

Tennis fans can build a visit around the academy and museum. We’d leave time for the town itself. Look at the difference between the international tennis campus and the streets of the centre, then think about what it means for young players from elsewhere to come to Manacor to learn the game.

Further reading: more on Rafa Nadal.

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