Rafael Nadal Biography – He Took The World Of Tennis By Storm

Nicnamed “Rafa” Rafael Nadal has set many of the world’s “youngest” tennis playing records. This young man rose through the ranks of the professional tennis circuit so quickly that it has quite literally been like a “whirlwind’. He has enjoyed an extraordinary amount of wins, and this brief Rafael Nadal biography, takes us through just a few of these.

Rafa is now ranked as the second best singles tennis player world-wide. He has had sixty consecutive tennis wins on the clay-courts and as winning streaks go, this is quite remarkable.

Rafa was born in the town of Manacor on the Island of Mallorca, on the 3rd June 1986. He is no newcomer to sporting achievement as his family has another well known sporting personality in its midst. His uncle was a professional football player for FC Barcelona for many years and he was only 15 when he turned professional.

This young man was also only the tender age of 15 when he won his first ATP in Mallorca. The person he played to win this title was Ramon Delgado, and this win ensured that Rafa became the 9th player in an ATP during the “Open” era to win the Championship before he was 16 years of age. The following year he was ranked in the top 100 best tennis players in the world and was the second youngest player to achieve this remarkable feat.

Making a debut at Wimbledon aged 16 years in 2003, he managed to reach the 3rd round. No tennis player since Boris Becker had done this. His meteoric rise to fame continued and by 2005 saw him ranked the 5th best tennis singles player, making him the youngest player to make it into the top ten since Andrei Medvedev.

This Rafael Nadal biography tells us he has set some historic records in tennis annals. He is the 4th youngest champion of Roland Garros, the 7th player to win a Grand Slam on their first appearance, and since Pete Sampras won the 1990 US open at age 19, Rafa is the first teenager to do this again. This young man has become a tennis open hero and is best known for being the winner of 4 consecutive French Open competitions, and for being Roger Federerer’s arch nemesis.