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Rafa Nadal Academy
The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar (RNA) is a tennis training center on the island of Mallorca, Spain. It was founded in 2016 by tennis great Rafael Nadal and located in his hometown of Manacor. The inaugural director is Toni Nadal, Rafa's uncle and longtime coach. History and facilities Nadal founded the Rafa Nadal Foundation in 2008 and opened his first tennis school, the Nadal Educational Tennis School, in the Anantapur Sports Village in India in 2010. The Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor broke ground in November 2014. Operations began in June 2016 and an opening ceremony was held on 19 October 2016. At its opening, the academy was led by Toni Nadal (who stepped away from coaching his nephew the following year) and Nadal's longtime agent Carlos Costa. Nadal's new coach, former world Carlos Moyá, was the technical director. The campus in Manacor has 23 hard courts (19 outdoor, 4 indoor), 20 clay courts (13 outdoor, 7 semi-indoor), 12 padel courts (6 outdoor, 6 indoor), two sq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (, ; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 2 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has been ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. Nadal has won an List of Grand Slam men's singles champions#Champions list, all-time record 22 Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record 14 French Open titles. He has won 92 ATP singles titles, including 36 ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters titles, with 63 of these on clay courts. Nadal is one of only two men to complete the Grand Slam (tennis)#Golden Slam, Career Golden Slam in singles. His Rafael Nadal career statistics#81 match win streak on clay courts, 81 consecutive wins on clay is the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era. For over a decade, Nadal has dominated men's tennis along with Roger Fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padel
Padel ( es, Pádel) is a racket sport typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. Scoring is the same as normal tennis, and the balls used are similar but with a little less pressure. The main differences are that the court has walls and the balls can be played off them in a similar way as in the game of squash and that solid, stringless bats are used. The height of the ball being served must be at or below the waist level. Padel is different from the sport known in Canada and the United States as paddle tennis. It is also not to be confused with platform tennis, a winter and summer sport typically played at country clubs in Canada and the US, with courts heated from below to eliminate snow and water. The court, rules, and styles of play are very different. Many well-known professional padel players have previously competed in tennis, including former WTA Tour players Roberta Vinci and Lara Arruabarrena. History The sport w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (born 5 May 2003) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked as the world No. 1 singles player by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Alcaraz has won six ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2022 US Open and two Masters 1000 titles. With the US Open win, Alcaraz became the youngest ever men's world No. 1 at 19 years, 4 months and 6 days old, and the first teenager in the Open Era to top the men's rankings. As a junior, Alcaraz was ranked as high as world No. 22 and won two titles on the ITF Junior Circuit. After turning professional in 2018, he won three titles on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour and four on the ATP Challenger Tour and broke into the top 100 in rankings in May 2021. Two months later, Alcaraz reached his first ATP Tour final at the 2021 Croatia Open, an ATP 250 tournament, where he won his first title. He later entered the top 50 after reaching the quarterfinals at the following US Open and won the year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Urpí
Gabriel Urpí Ribas (born 16 August 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Playing career Urpi was the Orange Bowl champion in 1978 and a semi-finalist in the boys' singles event at the French Open that year. A clay court specialist, he competed in the main draw of the French Open in 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1985. The Spaniard had his best performance at the 1982 French Open, where he reached the third round, with wins over Patrizio Parrini and Chris Lewis, the latter in a walkover. He was a quarter-finalist at Madrid in 1979, Barcelona in 1980, Bordeaux in 1981 and Bari in 1984. His only semi-final appearance was at the 1987 Bordeaux Open. However, as a doubles player, he reached the Barcelona semi-finals in 1984, partnering Lorenzo Fargas. Two year earlier in Indianapolis, Urpi and doubles partner Rick Fagel had an upset win over Mark Edmondson and Kim Warwick, a pairing that were dual Australian Open winners. Coaching Urpi had been the coach of Flav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomeu Salvá
Tomeu is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Tomeu Llompart (born 1944), Spanish footballer and coach * Tomeu Nadal (born 1989), Spanish footballer * Tomeu Penya (born 1949), Spanish singer-songwriter See also * Tomer (name) {{given name Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuno Marques
Nuno Miguel Bacelar de Vasconcelos Marques (born 9 April 1970) is a Portuguese former tennis player. He was the first Portuguese to reach the top 100 ATP rankings and held the record of highest ranked Portuguese player in history until Frederico Gil surpassed him in 2009. Also, he was the highest ranked Portuguese doubles player in history reaching a career high of no. 58 until 2019, when he was surpassed by João Sousa João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13 May 2 .... Career finals Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up) Singles performance timeline Awards *2013 – ITF Commitment Award References External links * * * 1970 births Living people Olympic tennis players of Portugal Portuguese male tennis players Portuguese tennis coaches Sportspeople from Porto T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Marcaccio
Gustavo Marcaccio (born 3 May 1977) is an Argentine tennis coach and former professional player. Tennis career Marcaccio, a native of Buenos Aires, played collegiate tennis in the United States for Arizona State University in the late 1990s, via the University of Mobile. In 1999 he was runner-up to Ryan Wolters in the Pac-10 singles championship. While competing on the professional tour he had a career high singles ranking of 284. His best win came at the Prostejov Challenger in 2005, when he upset world number 20 Dominik Hrbatý in the first round. At ATP Tour level, Marcaccio had main draw wins over Luis Horna and Tomáš Zíb. Coach Marcaccio has had stints coaching his countrymen Guido Pella, Juan Mónaco and Máximo González Máximo González Mereira (; born July 20, 1983, in Tandil) is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 58, achieved in July 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking is World No. 22 achieved on 22 Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Clar
Pedro Clar Rosselló (born 23 January 1986) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player. Clar, born in Llucmajor, was at a time the second ranked Mallorcan player on tour behind Rafael Nadal. He reached a best world ranking of 237 in 2010, appearing in all four grand slam qualifying draws that year. During his career he won 11 ITF Futures singles titles. A member of the Rafa Nadal Academy, Clar is on the coaching team of Norwegian player Casper Ruud Casper Ruud (born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. Ruud has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 12 September 2022, making him the highest-ranked Norwegian tennis player in history. He has won nine ... and helped the Norwegian reach two grand slam finals in 2022. ATP Challenger/ITF Futures finals Singles: 20 (11–9) Doubles: 19 (7–12) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Clar, Pedro 1986 births Living people Spanish male tennis players Spanish te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to manoeuvre the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball validly will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. The rules of modern tennis have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP Tour. The ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are on the entry-level of international professional tennis competition. The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Players who succeed on the ATP Challenger Tour earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for main draw or qualifying draw entry at ATP Tour tournaments. Players on the Challenger Tour are usually young players looking to advance their careers, those who fail to qualify for ATP events, or former ATP players looking to get back into the big tour. History of challenger events The first challenger events were held in 1978, with eighteen events taking place. Two were held on the week beginning January 8, one in Auckland and another in Hoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafa Nadal Open
The Rafa Nadal Open is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T .... It is held annually in Manacor, Spain since 2018. Past finals Singles Doubles External links Official website ATP Challenger Tour Hard court tennis tournaments Tennis tournaments in Spain Manacor Recurring sporting events established in 2018 Sport in Mallorca {{tennis-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International School
An international school is an institution that promotes education in an international environment or framework. Although there is no uniform definition or criteria, international schools are usually characterized by a multinational student body and staff, multilingual instruction, curricula oriented towards global perspectives and subjects, and the promotion of concepts such as world citizenship, pluralism, and intercultural understanding. Many international schools adopt a curriculum from programs and organizations such as International Baccalaureate, Edexcel, Cambridge Assessment International Education, International Primary Curriculum, or Advanced Placement. International schools often follow a curriculum different from the host country, catering mainly to foreign students, such as members of expatriate communities, international businesses or organizations, diplomatic missions, or missionary programs. Admission is sometimes open to local students to provide qualifications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
