After more than three months of closure due to the health crisis caused by Covid-19, the Rafa Nadal Museum Xperience has reopened its doors so that sports fans can once again visit the facilities in Manacor.

The Museum has modified the route of its exhibition and adapted to meet all the health protocols so that visitors can again see the trophies picked up by Rafa Nadal throughout his career and enjoy the objects donated by some of the biggest stars in world sport such as Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Roger Federer, Valentino Rossi, Tiger Woods, Marc Márquez, etc.

The Museum, located on the premises of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar, is open from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00 with a limited capacity, allowing visitors to visit the museum while social distancing, meaning that they can participate in a unique audiovisual experience and compete in the various activities, such as tennis, rowing, formula 1, hockey and cycling, as well as in the 16 various virtual reality experiences.

The Rafa Nadal Foundation also plays a leading role in the Rafa Nadal Museum Xperience, as a large part of the profits obtained from the museum go towards its social projects. This initiative boosts the education and sports programmes aimed at vulnerable children while allowing the Foundation to grow with new initiatives. You can purchase your tickets here.

The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar’s raison d'être is education through sport by means of academic and sports programmes that have a positive influence on the players’ personal development and comprehensive training. On the fourth anniversary of its inauguration, Rafa himself wanted to reflect on the importance of this project, as well as the goals it pursues:

“I have been young and I know how difficult it was for my parents to help me achieve my dream. In the end it was school on the one hand and training and tournaments on the other,  so there were many complicated things that took up huge amounts of their time. Here we always knew we needed a comprehensive package so that children can have things to hand when they really need them: a medical centre, fitness training, tennis facilities, etc. Of course, one the most important things is the school, an international school where children don’t miss out on something that I believe is vital for most of their futures; academic formation and education”.

The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar combines high-performance sports coaching and school teaching in order to develop excellent tennis players, applied students and people who are great for society. Thus, the players that come from every corner of the world to receive an education at the Academy combine their tennis activities with excellence in their studies, something that Rafa wanted to comment on: “Another of the main goals is for the children to leave here with important and positive values and for their learnings and experiences at the Academy to help them to progress as people and leave here ready with the foundation required to dedicate themselves to whatever they choose to do”.

The Spanish player of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar Dani Rincon has had the opportunity to train with Rafa Nadal in the facilities of the Academy in Manacor.

After joining the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2019, Daniel Rincón went down in the history of national tennis by becoming the sixth Spanish player to win the Orange Bowl in the Under-16s category, something that until then had only been done by Álex Corretja (1990), Gonzalo Corrales (1991), Tommy Robredo (1998), Georgi Roumenov (2005) and Pablo Llamas (2018). In addition, Dani won the doubles alongside Abedallah Shelbayh, also a Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar player. The Spaniard and the Jordanian beat US pair Ozan Colak and Hugo Kashimoto 6-1, 6-2 to bring their Orange Bowl to an unforgettable end.

The double at the Orange Bowl closed out a great year in which he also won two other important tournaments. In Vila do Conde (Portugal) and Casablanca (Morocco) he picked up his first ITF World Tennis Tour Junior trophies, as well as reaching the final in Luque (Paraguay).

In 2020 Dani continues to grow at the Academy and thanks to Rafa's inspiration and motivation, he will continue to strive to fulfill his dreams.

Promising young Swedish player Leo Borg joined the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar this week. Although he was planning to arrive in Mallorca a few months ago, he was unable to do so due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Leo has worked intensely and enthusiastically during his first days under the orders of Toni Nadal’s coaching staff, combining on-court training with fitness work in the gym.

Leo, the son of ex-world number 1 and 11-time Grand Slam champion Björn Borg, came to the Academy for a few weeks last year along with his father. During their visit, Björn was full of praise for Rafa and the Academy: “The standard of coaching at the Academy is very good and I think they’re doing a great job. That’s why my son has come here, I’m very happy about that and I hope many more come in the future because the Academy is very good”, said the 6-time French Open champion.