We pick as player of the month because it is "our" and Rome and Madrid to win in finals against Federer and Ferrer. Rafael Nadal Parera was born on June 3, 1986 in the Majorcan town of Manacor, where Nadal form a large family rooted in the island since the fourteenth century. The patriarch of the series is named after his grandson, Rafael, and is a big music fan who runs the city's orchestra. Nadal is the son of Sebastian, director of a company that builds paddle and organizes sporting events, and Ana Maria Parera, and has a sister, Elizabeth, her most enthusiastic fan. Antonio was his uncle, Toni, who headed up the path tennis, to become coach and representative.
Although the child was given a better bike (at age four Toni practiced with him for several hours a day) that football (not in vain child of Spain champion at age eleven and the World fourteen), lured by the wake of his other uncle, the international footballer Miquel Angel Nadal, is increasingly excited by football. Toni tried to cut short this indecision and ordered him to drop out at 4 ยบ ESO to devote himself exclusively to tennis, to the chagrin mother: "Rafa turned pro too soon. At first I had really bad, but eventually I understood that it was impossible to combine studies with their sporting careers. "
ATP were enrolled in late 2001, ranked 818. He was only fifteen years and now belonged to the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. But he did not play their first professional game until April 29, 2002, in the Mallorca Open, defeating Ramon Delgado of Paraguay.