The Rafa Nadal Academy takes its international expansion into Indonesia with a new Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in Lombok

27.07.2026

Editorial RNA

The Rafa Nadal Academy continues to accelerate its international expansion and will soon open a new Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in Lombok (Indonesia), one of the top emerging destinations in Southeast Asia. The new center will be part of the exclusive Samara Lombok complex, a resort located on the southern coast of the island, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2028.

The new Rafa Nadal Tennis Center will feature four tennis courts and four padel courts, offering sports programmes for players of all ages and abilities, following the training methodology developed by Rafa Nadal and his technical team over more than two decades of experience on the professional tour.

Maribel Nadal, deputy general manager of the Rafa Nadal Academy, expressed her satisfaction with this new international project: “We’re very excited about the arrival of the first Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in Southeast Asia. Lombok is a destination with enormous international potential and we believe that this project will help bring our methodology and our passion for sport to new generations of players and families from all over the world”.

Located just 25 minutes from Lombok International Airport, the Samara Lombok project will cover an area of 150 hectares and will become the first “Destination by Hyatt” in Southeast Asia. The complex will initially open with three boutique hotels and 150 villas, as part of a project that includes a total of 500 residential villas.

The Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers are a complementary line to the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca and the one opened in Kuwait. They are tennis complexes located in high-end holiday and residential resorts, combining leisure, tourism, and top-quality sports coaching.

With this new complex, Lombok will join the Rafa Nadal Academy’s international portfolio, which already includes academies in Manacor and Kuwait, as well as Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers in Costa Mujeres (Mexico), Sani (Greece), Hong Kong, Marbella, and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), in addition to the Rafa Nadal Tennis Programme in Egypt. The first center in Brazil is also scheduled to open in 2028.