ROME — For a brief stretch on Thursday, Rafael Nadal looked every bit of a weary 37-year-old player nearing retirement. Struggling to produce pace off both sides with his groundstrokes, committing an ...

Even if Federer’s loss was another ever-so-small step toward his inevitable retreat from unbeatable territory, the conversation awkwardly turned toward Nadal’s assault on Federer’s record of 16 majors ...

PARIS — The fans’ first standing ovation for Rafael Nadal occurred when he wasn’t even in their presence, merely an image shown on a video screen as he waited in a stadium hallway to walk out on the ...

Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam winner, announced Thursday that he will retire next month, ending a career in which he, along with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, dominated ...

PARIS — No matter the occasion — the familial and familiar French Open, where he built his legend, or the once-in-a-lifetime Olympics on the clay he all but owned — it was hard to imagine Rafael Nadal ...

Mark Ein, tournament director of the Citi DC Open, says Rafael Nadal accepted a much reduced, but ‘fair’, appearance fee during his rare participation in 2021 – something which was a result of the ...