To say Rafa Nadal is to say the best Spanish athlete of all time. The Balearic tennis player, whose professional career is not over yet, can boast of being the male player with the most Grand Slams in history, although this battle still has a few chapters left to tell.
Rafa Nadal debuted on the professional circuit in 2002, at the young age of 15, but it was in 2004 when the man from Manaco raised his first ATP title. Since then, Nadal has not stopped winning a single year and until his last title, that of Roland Garros, he has added a whopping 92 titles, for Novak Djokovic’s 88 and Roger Federer’s 103, the two great rivals of the.
The Spaniard, who has been competing at the highest level for more than half his life, can also boast of being the second tennis player in history with the highest income from tennis. For his exclusively tennis merits, from within the track. There, Rafa Nadal has added 131,383,446 euros, for Federer’s 130,594,339 euros and Djokovic’s 158,996,253.
Of those 131.3 million euros, Nadal owes a lot to Roland Garros, since the 14 titles won to date have given him a profit of approximately 20 million euros. The last one achieved against the Norwegian Rudd generated profits of , figures much higher compared to those of a decade ago.
The 6.4 million he has won on the court in 2022 also stand out. Apart from the 2.2 at Roland Garros, Nadal has entered for his conquest of the Australian Open and 620,000 euros after being a Wimbledon semifinalist. To all this should be added his participation in the tournaments played and the money obtained by winning the Melbourne and Acapulco ATPs.
off the track
Like other elite athletes, Rafa Nadal has invested a good part of his money in various businesses, although the ones that generate the most time for him are his tennis academy, the Rafael Nadal Academy, in which he has invested 5% of the total, that is, contributing 1.25 million euros. Another is that of his foundation, created in 2008 together with his mother, Ana María Parera, who acts as president, to cultivate sports and education among children.
In addition, Rafa Nadal is a partner, along with Abel Matutes and Manuel Campos, of Mabel Capital, a private capital fund that is currently involved in several real estate, hotel and even sports projects. The Spanish tennis player does not turn his back on fashion either, and it is that Nadal has opened his sights by entering the and of .
On the other hand, his sponsorships are worth noting, from which he also receives money. Babolat, Cantabria Labs, Heineken NV, KIA, Nike, Richard Mille, Santander or Telefónica are some of them and, precisely, they have been accompanying him for many years.
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