Unusual, ATP – WTA > Alex Eala (US Open junior champion) on Nadal: “I told him that the 15,000 dollars I had won were surely not as important as his exploits and he told me replied that there was a time when this money was everything to him too”

Only 17 years old and already 281^e world, Alexandra Eala, member of the Rafael Nadal academy, recently distinguished herself by winning the US Junior Open for girls. A victory which notably allowed him to pocket the tidy sum of 15,000 dollars. Far from trivial for a player of her age.

Asked by the site Olympics.comthe young Spaniard revealed one of her conversations with Rafael Nadal precisely about this amount of money.

” He’s very nice. I told him that the 15,000 dollars I had won were probably not as important as his achievements and he replied that there was a time when those 15,000 were everything to him too. So you can see that he had humble beginnings, started from the bottom, and really worked his way up. »

Posted on Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 2:47 PM