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\n Nadal applauds Landaluce for Miami surge: \u2018On to the next challenges\u2019<\/p>\n
#NextGenATP star grew up training at the Rafa Nadal Academy<\/p>\n
March 28, 2026<\/p>\n
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Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Martin Landaluce and Rafael Nadal at the 2025 Next Gen ATP Finals in Jeddah.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
A message from one of tennis\u2019 all-time greats capped a breakout run for Martin Landaluce<\/a> at the Miami Open presented by Itau<\/a>. Rafael Nadal<\/a> praised the 20-year-old following his last-eight showing at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n Landaluce\u2019s journey to his first ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final marked a stunning leap for the Spaniard, who had arrived in Miami with just two tour-level wins \u2014 and none in 2026. Yet the #NextGenATP star pieced together a dazzling campaign that announced his arrival.<\/p>\n \u201cCongratulations,\u201d the former No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings Nadal wrote in a social media post in Spanish. \u201cGreat tournament. On to the next challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n Landaluce grew up training at the Rafa Nadal Academy, where he developed his game before capturing the US Open<\/a> boys\u2019 title aged 16 in 2022. He continued that upward trajectory in 2025 by competing at the Next Gen ATP Finals in Jeddah.<\/p>\n Among the highlights of Landaluce\u2019s Miami run were statement victories over Top 20 opponents Luciano Darderi<\/a> and Karen Khachanov<\/a>, as well as a fourth-round win against Sebastian Korda<\/a>, during which he saved a match point. Landaluce has risen 46 spots to a new career-high No. 105 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings.<\/p>\n Landaluce is a multiple-time qualifier for the PIF ATP Next Gen Accelerator, which provides additional playing opportunities for the best up-and-coming players across junior, college or traditional pathways.<\/p>\n Now, with a Masters 1000 quarter-final under his belt and recognition from one of his country\u2019s greatest players, Landaluce\u2019s momentum shows no signs of slowing. As Nadal\u2019s message suggests, the Spaniard is hoping his Miami run is just the start of something bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Nadal applauds Landaluce for Miami surge: \u2018On to the next challenges\u2019 #NextGenATP star grew up training at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}