Agustín Olima

[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.

[Agustín Olima @olima22]

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[Agustín Olima @olima22]

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[Juan M. del Potro @delpotrojuan]

Gracias a todos por haber hecho una despedida mucho más linda de lo que soñaba. 💙

[BATennis @BATennisCom]

No nos alcanzarían mil vidas para darte las gracias.

Nuestro por siempre ❤️

[Fran Santa @santa_fran]

🥹❤️

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

Cómo le voy a echar de menos macho

[San Lorenzo @SanLorenzo]

¿Y si fue el primer flipeo?

Y bueno, fliparemos…

[Tiempo De Tenis @Tiempodetenis1]

Hay puntos que cambian partidos.

Hay puntos que cambian carreras.

Hay puntos que cambian la historia para siempre.

Feliz cumple, Delpo 💙🤍

[Novak Djokovic @DjokerNole]

Srbijo,

Uspeli smo!

Volim vas,
Nole ❤️ 🥇

**
Dear Serbia,

We did it.

Love, Nole ❤️🥇

[Alejandro Arroyo @Arroyer]

Es difícil que una portada esté a la altura conceptualmente de un hecho tan grande como que un británico gane Wimbledon 77 años después. Pero ésta lo logró.

La magia hecha portada. Se retira The History Boy.

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Rafa Nadal loses to Novak Djokovic in likely their final meeting.

This was also likely the last Olympics match of his career.

It’s difficult to put into words everything this man means to tennis.

Every time he’s stepped on the court since he was a teenager, he’s reminded all of us that it’s always worth it to try a little harder.

It’s always worth it to give your best effort.

He did that once again today.

When he won his first Roland Garros title on this very court in 2005, who would’ve thought that 19 year old boy rolling around in the dirt would mean so much to millions of people.

22 Grand Slams, 14 Roland Garros titles, & 2 Olympic Gold Medals later… what a journey it’s been.

This wasn’t the final match of his career.

But in likely his last Olympics singles match, it’s the end of another chapter.

And it’s been one beautiful book, written by a legendary author.

With him til the very end.

🇪🇸❤️🇪🇸

[BATennis @BATennisCom]

Viejo es el viento y aún sigue soplando…

[Javier Lanza @javierlanza]

El abrazo del alma.

El paso del tiempo es mierda.

No dejemos de ser conscientes que somos contemporáneos de la mejor selección argentina de todos los tiempos.

Será el lugar al que tendremos que volver para recordar cuando las cosas no vayan tan bien.

Gracias 🇦🇷

[Oscar Pearson @oscarjpearson]

unreal from djokovic

[Ale Klappenbach @aleklap]

Roger, Rafa, Nole y Andy. Son 4, son nuestros abuelos del tenis que "vivieron" hasta viejitos y los disfrutamos durante años pero, de repente, parece que se van muy rápido, muy juntos. Y duele, nos duele un montón. Gracias para siempre Andrés. @andy_murray

[Stanislas Wawrinka @stanwawrinka]

Gracias Argentina 🇦🇷🙏🏻🫶🏻🎾🧡
#buenosaires #argentina #fight #match #backtowork #trusttheprocess
📸 @sbermatov

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Selfie anyone? 😄