On September 24, Rafal Nadal he served no less than 20 years in the ATP ranking. A list that has led in up to three different decades, something that no other tennis player has yet achieved. Since he started his professional career, he has won at least one title every year, Being the Roland Garros his fetish tournament, after having raised it a score of times. Not only is he the most successful tennis player of all time (along with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic), he is one of the most important athletes in the history of Spain. This string of trophies represent in hard cash a whopping 121 million dollars, As revealed by Forbes, which places the Mallorcan as the third highest-earning tennis player on the ATP circuit, only surpassed, precisely, by the two athletes mentioned above.
But these are not the only income that fattens Nadal’s checking account every month’s end. You also have to add everything that it generates through your businesses and investments outside the tennis court, which are not few. In fact, the last one landed directly on Beverly Hills (Los Angeles) last week. Its about TATEL restaurant, of which it is part together with Cristiano Ronaldo and Pau Gasol. Local that is already in Madrid and Ibiza.
Real estate, sports center, sponsorships …
And how could it be otherwise … the tennis player also participates as part of the real estate, through Mabel Capital, which he owns together with Abel Matutes Prats and Manuel Campos Guallar. Among his projects, MABEL Villa de París in Madrid stands out, a residential development of 11 homes in a building from 1889 located in the Plaza Villa de París. It is also present in Portugal or on the Costa del Sol with MABEL Casa de Mar, a luxury private urbanization on the beachfront located between Marbella and Estepona. As revealed by Forbes, one of the tenants of the Madrid property is the daughter of Amancio Ortega, Marta Ortega.
The business magazine also points out that in 2017, the Mallorcan tennis player came to pocket up to 24 million dollars due to the sponsorship agreements it has with KIA, Nike Tommy Hilfiger, Babolat or Telefónica. A good part of their profits have also gone to charitable causes, as in 2018 when donated 1 million euros to help those affected by the floods in Mallorca, or when in 2020 he joined Pau Gasol to support the Red Cross to raise up to $ 10 million in support of those affected by Covid-19.
Returning to the sports field, another of the cornerstones of Nadal’s businesses is Rafael Nadal Academy, a sports complex based in Manacor that has more than twenty tennis courts, as well as a soccer field, paddle tennis courts, swimming pool, fitness center or spa.
According to Forbes, Nadal has been for several years the richest athlete in Spain. He currently occupies the sixth position in the ATP ranking, it remains to be seen if next year when he returns to the tracks, from which he has moved away because of an injury, he will climb more steps again.
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