Toni Nadal

Toni Nadal is one of the main architects of the success of the current world tennis No. 1 player, Rafael Nadal. His experience and ability to understand the game and the psychology of an elite player have worked to perfection to ensure that the innate abilities of his pupil could develop to the fullest.

Toni Nadal, who also competed in tennis for six years, started in the sport to his nephew Rafael Nadal at the early age of 4 years old and taught him to play. Rafael Nadal also played football and could have been professional in this sport too, but when Rafael was 12, Toni Nadal said to him he could achieve greater success in tennis than in football, and since then, Toni became the coach, mentor, strategist and emotional anchor of one of the best tennis players in the world, Rafael Nadal.

Toni Nadal, who directed Manacor's Tennis Club, decided to start training Rafael Nadal in bad condition tennis courts and using poor quality tennis balls just to show him that winning or losing does not depends on the quality of the field, or the strings, or the lights or the type of balls you may used, but it depends the attitude, discipline and staying in focus.

For him the most important qualities to win, those that he instilled in Rafael, are modesty, mental balance and keeping the feet firmly on the ground. His philosophy is that you can only achieve success through hard work and there is always room for improvement. Apart from that, another of his priorities was to develop Rafael's character because he knew that this has a profound impact on the performance and motivation. Besides tennis, Toni Nadal manages Rafael Nadal's foundation that tries to offer an opportunity to all children.