By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, April 13, 2026
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Rafa Nadal famously mentioned “struggling” is a prerequisite to Grand Slam success.
In its new Rafa documentary, Netflix lifts the curtain on the agonizing ache and exhilarating ardour the King of Clay delivered to the courtroom.
Netflix shared a trailer for the Rafa documentary, which airs on Could twenty ninth.
“I’m not a winner. I’m a competitor,” Nadal says in his mission assertion that opens the documentary. “What at all times motivated me is the need to maintain combating.”
“Rafael Nadal faces the tip of his beautiful profession and long-term residence in tennis’ Mount Olympus with only one factor in thoughts: one final triumph,” Netflix mentioned in a press release accompanying the trailer. “His ultimate foe isn’t a competitor, however his physique.
“We’ll accompany him in his lengthy goodbye and, for the primary and final time ever, he’ll share the intimate highs and lows which have turned him into one of many greatest athletes of all time.”
The King of Clay obtained a rousing hero’s welcome in his return to the Australian Open in January the place he sat in a baseline field watching Carlos Alcaraz rally previous Novak Djokovic within the AO ultimate to make historical past because the youngest man to seize the profession Grand Slam.
Extra lately, Nadal has spent a while on courtroom hitting with WTA stars Iga Swiatek and Alexandra Eala on the Rafa Nadal Academy in his native Mallorca.
