Notice to tennis lovers.Failing to be able to see the champion evolve on the courts at the moment, since he has put an end to his 2021 season due to a foot injury, the streaming platform invites you to discover the incredible academic project thatLaunched Rafael Nadal 5 years ago.

It is not yet retired, which Rafael Nadal already has an eye on the future.And it is not only to his own, but that of tennis.Since 2016, his native land of Manacor, on the island of Mallorca, has indeed become the address of what is certainly the biggest - and perhaps even the best - Academy of Tennis in the world: the Rafa Nadal Academy.A gigantic 50,000 m2 complex which houses no less than 26 shorts, both covered and outdoors, with hard surfaces, in lawn and obviously in clay.While she welcomes a hundred young people passionate about racket from all over the globe, this academy with XXL ambition, like that of the Taurus, opened its doors to the cameras of Amazon Prime Video for an immersionexceptional.

After a few words of inspiration from Rafael Nadal, the documentary series - simply entitled Rafa Nadal Academy - opens on images of the famous child tennis player, and an interview with his father who explains the difficulty he had to juggle between the'School in the morning and tennis lessons in the afternoon, located on two different campuses.Hence this desire to create an academy which allows both to follow a school curriculum and both to train in tennis, in the same place, with a better suitable timetable.A major project, which the one who won 20 great chelems (including 13 Roland-Garros!) So went in the company of his father and of course his uncle, who is none other than his famous historic coach, Toni Nadal.

Roger Federer as a surprise guest

Impressive complex that offers the top of the top for budding players, of the physical preparation required by Rafael Nadal Himself to a nutritional and medical monitoring at the cutting edge of technology, this Rafa Nadal Academy even benefits from shock support … From the first minutes of this documentary series, we are indeed surprised to see The One and Only, Roger Federer. The proof that beyond their great rivalry on the courts, the two players have enormous respect for each other. The Swiss says that he offered Rafael Nadal his services to this company to Rafael Nadal: "I told him that I was available for an exhibition match, to play with the juniors, for the inauguration ... little No matter, I will be there. " So the latter invited him to the opening ceremony of his academy in 2016. And Roger Federer to ensure before the public, as a ultimate dubbing, that if his children wanted to go to tennis one day, this is where 'He would send them ...

A certainly judicious choice, since then that the King of the clay is investing himself with students, sometimes visiting them in class, sometimes on courts as we can see through episodes of this documentary series , it was his uncle Toni who, once he stopped following the champion in 2017, resumed the reins of the Rafa Nadal Academy. "We needed the Rafa Nadal method, taught by the man who had invented him," said Carlos Costa, the former tennis player who became an agent of the major player. After having shaped his nephew to make it one of the greatest champions of all time, Toni Nadal is therefore responsible for forming the next generation. And among her, the documentary series follows in particular a few young players in the particularly promising future, such as Ariana, already crowned twice champion of Spain junior, or the friends Dani and Abdullah, who share the same room on The campus and both part of the 50 best juniors in the world.

An exceptional complex, even for pros

Then there are not only apprentices who tread the grounds of the Rafa Nadal Academy. This documentary series shows us that even the pros sometimes stay there. The young Canadian prodigy Félix Auger-Aliassime, of which Toni Nadal recently became the new coach, but also the Japanese champion Naomi Osaka, or the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman have already taken a tour. "I have many weeks when to return to Argentina, in Buenos Aires, would not be practical", explains the latter, saying that he prefers to spend "a week to ten days to (s) 'to train with super young" . Even Roger Federer, again, says that he "plays tennis here, does fitness here, follows (his) treatment here", believing that "Rafa has a lot of chance of having the conditions he has". And the icing on the cake, for pros who like young apprentices also dream of following the trace of these great champions, is to be able to "get lots of advice from Rafa in person", as evidenced by the Bulgarian player Grigor Dimitrov ...

Particularly interesting, lifting the veil on a facet of Rafael Nadal unknown to the general public and, who knows, perhaps showing the beginnings of future champions, this documentary series full of shock testimonies will certainly delight all fans.Cut into 4 episodes of about half an hour each, Rafa Nadal Academy thus completes the tennis catalog of Amazon Prime Video.Let us recall that the streaming platform seems to want to make it its specialty, which recently obtained the diffusion rights of the Roland-Garros tournament, and which before that had presented us an exceptional documentary on the fight of Andy Murray to returnAfter his serious hip injury ... You just have to hope for a document now retracing the unique course of Rafael Nadal, even the famous "Big Three" which he forms with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic for almost 20year !

In the meantime, we invite you to discover the documentary series Rafa Nadal Academy, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.As a reminder, the streaming platform is offered as an option at SFR, at only 5.99 euros per month.

Sources: Amazon Prime Video, Le Figaro

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