{"id":626616,"date":"2026-04-23T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:28:10","slug":"rafael-nadal-relaxed-during-madrid-visit-lifes-treating-me-well-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626616\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal relaxed during Madrid visit: &#8216;Life&#8217;s treating me well&#8217; | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Rafael Nadal<br \/>\n    Nadal relaxed during Madrid visit: &#8216;Life&#8217;s treating me well&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard spent time playing tennis in the Bernabeu on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>April 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nadal-madrid-2026-thu.jpg\" alt=\"Jude Bellingham with Rafael Nadal on Thursday in Madrid.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mutua Madrid Open<\/p>\n<p>        Jude Bellingham with Rafael Nadal on Thursday in Madrid.<br \/>\n        By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy. Life\u2019s treating me well at the moment. I can\u2019t really ask for much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-nadal\/n409\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> summed up his time in Madrid this week, speaking following a fun hit at the Santiago Bernabeu, temporarily converted into a tennis practice venue for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/madrid\/1536\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing for a few days with my family and colleagues experiencing this moment, which I think is historical,\u201d Nadal <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DXeve09DBRI\/\" target=\"_blank\">told the tournament<\/a>. \u201cI hope the tournament is a great success over the next two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You May Also Like: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/nadal-sinner-bellingham-courtois-madrid-2026-thursday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nadal, Sinner join Real Madrid stars Bellingham, Courtois on court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nadal made his final appearance in Madrid in 2024, reaching the fourth round. The 39-year-old Spaniard is a record five-time champion at the ATP Masters 1000 event, having first lifted the trophy in 2005 when the tournament was played on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal, who compiled a 59-15 tournament record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, spent time with the No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jannik-sinner\/s0ag\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> and football stars Thibaut Courtois and Jude Bellingham in the Bernabeu, where the four participated in a fun hit.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/atp-number-one-club\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768144283_348_atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cATP\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal Nadal relaxed during Madrid visit: &#8216;Life&#8217;s treating me well&#8217; Spaniard spent time playing tennis in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-626616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}