Jacquelyn

Rafael Nadal’s Babymama & Dada to Bigwig Fredwaah..I live n breathe every thing tennis! Here for the Alcaraz Sinner dawn🍿#Sportslover🔴🎾06.12.22🕊📿 👼🏾❤️✨

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

https://t.co/HchLXBrDZM #Masterpiece #WorkofArt #BabyGotBack

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Rafa Nadal won the 2022 French Open with his left foot completely numb. His doctor had been injecting anesthetic into the nerves before every match, for two solid weeks. After one of those matches he couldn’t walk, and his father had to carry him to the hotel.

That was his 14th French Open title. No tennis player, male or female, has ever won the same tournament that many times. His career record at the French Open was 112 wins, 4 losses. That 96.6% win rate is the highest by any player at any major in history. Only three men ever beat him in Paris: Söderling in 2009, Djokovic twice, and Alexander Zverev in his final appearance in 2024.

The forehand that powered all of it spins faster than a washing machine on spin cycle. About 3,200 rotations per minute on average, peaking at 5,000. Federer’s spins at 2,500. Sampras and Agassi were at 1,800. Nadal’s ball spins about 80 times in the time it takes to cross the court.

The condition in his foot is called Müller-Weiss syndrome. It is a rare disease where a small bone in the middle of the foot slowly collapses. He has had it since 2005. There’s no cure. He once said he doesn’t remember what playing without pain feels like.

He retired last November in tears, after Spain lost a Davis Cup quarter-final to the Netherlands. Across 23 years he won 22 Grand Slams, 92 tour titles, and 1,080 of his 1,308 singles matches. He held the world number one ranking for 209 weeks and earned $134.9 million in prize money.

The Netflix series drops May 29, in the middle of this year’s French Open. He turns 40 five days later. The tagline is “A Life Beyond Limits.” That was the job description of a tennis career he played, for years, on a foot doctors said could not hold up.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Rafael Nadal was diagnosed with Müller-Weiss syndrome at 19 years old. The navicular bone in his left foot was collapsing. There is no cure. The condition is degenerative. It only gets worse.

The navicular is the keystone of the human foot. It catches the head of the talus and connects to the first three toes. It absorbs the majority of load when you change direction. In tennis, players change direction hundreds of times per match. On clay, where the surface forces you to slide into every shot, the stress on that bone multiplies.

His sport demands exactly the one thing his body could no longer do without pain.

He won 22 Grand Slams after the diagnosis. Fourteen of them at Roland Garros, the clay court tournament that punished his foot the hardest. His record there: 112 wins, 4 losses. A 97% win rate across 23 years at the single venue that required the most from the bone that was failing him.

For context, the other Grand Slam dominance records: Djokovic at the Australian Open has a 91% win rate. Federer at Wimbledon had 88%. Nadal's 97% at Roland Garros isn't just the best in tennis. There may not be a comparable number in any individual sport at any single venue, ever.

He once told reporters he doesn't remember what the feeling of playing without pain is. The condition is most common in women aged 40 to 60. He got it at 19 and kept winning for 19 more years.

The Rafa documentary drops May 29. During the French Open. The tournament he won 14 times will be happening without him while 300 million subscribers watch what it actually cost him to own it. He turns 40 on June 3.

Netflix timed this so the stadium that was his is full of players trying to fill a void that 97% says might be permanent.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

looking forward to part of Nadal’s Netflix documentary when he explains how he won his 14th French Open (2022) before the match even started by freaking out Casper Ruud with the most unnecessarily intense prematch warmup in the hallway before they walk out

[Netflix @netflix]

His relentless grit is his greatest legacy. This is the definitive documentary on an all-time great: Rafa Nadal.

Rafa premieres May 29.

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

@kitten2031 @graciengenda Thrilled for your girl! 🎉

[Gracie🏋🏽‍♀️🥑 @graciengenda]

4 wins in a row 🚀

[Carlos Alcaraz @carlosalcaraz]

AND WE DID IT!!! ❤️

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Enhorabuena @carlosalcaraz por ganar el @AustralianOpen y conquistar el Career Grand Slam! 👶👏🏻

Congratulations @DjokerNole on reaching another final in Melbourne and continuing to make history in our sport. Thank you for your words during the ceremony!

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

Mwandiko wako 😆 @graciengenda

[Fiona @federering]

Zverev’s a threat to chair umpires, and a threat to women, but never a threat to a grand slam title

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

@graciengenda Heeeeeeeee 😭😂

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

What a semi that was

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

Yaaaaaassssss Nole! 🙌🏽

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

One more game Nole

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

Novak Djokovic wow! 🙌🏽🎉

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

@alvinmchaga @kitten2031 Exactly 😆

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Arsenal's loss against Man Utd:

▪️ First L at home this season in all comps
▪️ First L after scoring the opening goal this season
▪️ First time they have conceded three since December 2023

A rough night for the Gunners 🫥

[UtdTruthful @Utdtruthful]

🚨🗣️ Arsene Wenger: “I think there is something going on in this United team, between the way they beat Man City and Arsenal today.

“The way they played was very convincing. When Arsenal comes back to 2-2, usually it’s the home team who win the game.

“And they found the game, the resources to score the third goal, and to win 3-2 away from home in a top level game. I must congratulate Carrick, he has created something.” #MUFC

[Kantika 🐯🦊 @kitten2031]

Back on prime time baaaibeeeee

[Jacquelyn @JackeeTweets]

3 points! Back to back wins! Carrick ball get iiiiiiinnnn 🔴🔴🔴