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<\/p>\n Off Court News
\n Game, set… golf? Nadal & Federer swap court for course<\/p>\n
Federer visited Nadal at his Academy last week<\/p>\n
July 22, 2025<\/p>\n
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Rafa Nadal Academy<\/p>\n
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer played golf together at the Pula Golf Resort in Mallorca on Sunday.
\n By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n
Rafael Nadal<\/a> and Roger Federer<\/a> have shared countless iconic moments across the net, but on Sunday they teed up a new kind of rivalry. The two legends hit the fairways at Pula Golf Resort in Mallorca on Sunday, swapping forehands for fairways and backhands for birdies.<\/p>\n Once fierce competitors, with Nadal leading Federer 24-16 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series, the longtime friends kept the competition going with a friendly round on the greens. Laughter echoed across the course as the former No. 1 players in the PIF ATP Rankings enjoyed some off-court bonding in the Mallorca sun.<\/p>\n Nadal, no stranger to the golf scene, has kept a single-digit handicap and has played in amateur events. Federer? He looked cool, relaxed and lined up putts like a pro.<\/p>\n The golf outing capped off Federer\u2019s surprise visit to the Rafael Nadal<\/a> Academy, part of what fans are dubbing a Big 3 Summer Tour. Just a week earlier, Federer had been courtside at Wimbledon<\/a> to watch Novak Djokovic<\/a> on Centre Court and back in May, he joined Djokovic and Andy Murray<\/a> at Roland Garros<\/a> for a special farewell tribute to Nadal.<\/p>\n Six-time Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> champion Federer finished his career with a 1251-275 match record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. Nadal, a record 14-time Roland Garros<\/a> winner, had a 1080-228 record.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off Court News Game, set… golf? Nadal & Federer swap court for course Federer visited Nadal at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-16414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}