Rafael Nadal will be trying for his third US Open title this year, and sixteenth Grand Slam overall when action kicks off in Flushing, New York this week.
The Spaniard, who returned to the No. 1 ranking earlier today, brings a single-minded intensity to anything and everything related to tennis — even when there isn’t a tournament on the line.
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At Wimbledon in 2014, Nadal obliterated his previous personal best of 100-plus consecutive tennis ball bounces off the side of a racquet head in filming a promo for a French racquet company.
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Aside from making some impressive ball recoveries when the count was in the mid 200s, Nadal managed, mid attempt, to serve up a smidgeon of smack talk to Poland’s top tennis pro (and wholly innocent bystander) Aga Radwanska.
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One can only imagine that Nadal, given his nimble feet, would have no trouble keeping pace with the tennis-ball kicking dude in the the above video. Doing both skills simultaneously might be another story…
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