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Rafa Nadal Museum, Manacor

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Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player. Winner of 75 Singles Career titles, including the 4 Grand Slams tournaments (total of 16), 30 ATP Masters 1000, 2 Olympic Gold Medals (singles & doubles) and 4 Davis Cup Titles with Spain among other relevant results.

Founded the Rafa Nadal Foundation in 2008 and was presented with ATP ACES for Charity grant in 2011. As part of his Foundation, in October 2010, opened the Rafael Nadal Tennis School in Anantapur, India, which hosts tournaments, as well as laying equal emphasis on education and tennis training. Learn more about his Foundation: www.fundacionrafanadal.org.

Opened the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar in May 2016. It is a high-performance training academy that combines high-level tennis and education with open or supervised residency schemes in weekly, monthly, annual or summer camp programs. For more information, please visit www.rafanadalacademy.com.

Won ATP No. 1 award 4 times (2008, 2010, 2013 and 2017), Comeback Player of Year in 2013, Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award in 2011 for his contributions through the Rafa Nadal Foundation, Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award in 2010, Most Improved Player in 2005 and ATP Newcomer of the Year in 2003.

Named Sportsman of the Year (2011), Comeback of the Year (2014) and Newcomer of the Year (2006) at Laureus World Sports Awards.

Recipient of Prince of Asturias Award in 2008

Honoured by Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy with the "Medalla de Oro al Trabajo" (Gold Medal for Merit in Work) in May 2015, one of the top civilian honours in Spain.

Honoured by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo with "Grand Vermeil" medal in May 2015, the highest distinction from Paris.

Received an honorary doctoral degree, "Doctor Honoris Causa," from the European University of Madrid.

Flagbearer for Spain at 2016 Rio Olympics.
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  • If you go to a Rafa museum, you expect the focus to be on him. Instead, we did a VR ski jump, & drove a F1 car. Lots of other sports & sportsmen/women but not obvious why. Lots of cups & old rackets.....  more
    If you go to a Rafa museum, you expect the focus to be on him. Instead, we did a VR ski jump, & drove a F1 car. Lots of other sports & sportsmen/women but not obvious why. Lots of cups & old rackets.....  more »
  • Big tennis & Rafa fan. But from a tennis point of view the museum is very disappointing! Not much to see and most of it totally unrelated to tennis. Whole area of virtual reality video games... 
    Big tennis & Rafa fan. But from a tennis point of view the museum is very disappointing! Not much to see and most of it totally unrelated to tennis. Whole area of virtual reality video games...  more »
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  • As a Rafa fan I had to go to check out the museum. But really it’s fairly basic, more emphasis on the virtual machines which I had no interest in. I would have liked more info on Rafa’s early career but nice to see some trophies and memorabilia. Feel like the experience and museum could be sold separately otherwise 18 euros is expensive if you just want to see the ‘museum’
  • Despite knowing the tournaments Nadal has won in his career is still amazing to see the trophies together and think about all the effort and sacrifice must have taken to gather such a collection. However I found the exposition pretty basic. There could be some information about the tournaments, fun facts, etc. instead of just the trophies. Same with the borrowed stuff from other athletes. Also, on the ground floor there is a bunch of activities that didn't seem to be properly maintained. The F1 simulator was stuttering which make it unplayable, the VR headset I used had some inner foam falling off so it was quite uncomfortable and the game where you have to press the buttons when they light up, well, on the right side there was a button that didn't turn off unless you hit it very hard. For me these things weren't that important because I wanted to see the trophies and this was more an addition, but when you put all together the experience is quite disappointing.

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