10 Things Rafael Nadal Can't Live Without | GQ Sports

Now I only have one racquet in me because I'm playing tomorrow, so all the racquets are on the stringer, getting ready for tomorrow, I don't need any more, I'm not breaking rockets, so what's up? I'm Rafael Nadal and here. are my essential items, the first item for me is of course the phone, uh, it's important for me when I travel with family, uh, with friends, with the most used equipment, maybe what's up, yeah, that one it is the first one. of all good my computer at the tennis tournament we have uh a lot of three hours in the hotel so not being on the phone all the time uh reading all the news the newspaper watching television even I have been I'm watching a lot of

things

, so I don't even I can't even remember a documentary about the Second World War, a couple of Spanish series on the laptop that make

things

a little better for me, so I don't know, I get used to it. travel with the laptop everywhere and I still do well my rackets my back the racket the shoes uh all the things I need to be to play tennis I don't travel with my back when I'm on vacation but when I play tennis it's something I can't

live

with without this bike, honestly, I only have one racket in me now because I'm playing tomorrow, so even though the rockets are on the stringer, I prepare for tomorrow, I don't need more, I'm not breaking rockets, so it's easy.

I like the small grip because I feel like when I have this small grip on my hand I have better control of what I'm doing with my hand. I mean, I can produce more spin than when I have a better grip on my hand, now I feel more comfortable like this and like that, yeah, it's hard to change after my whole life playing like that, dumpers for the racket, uh, I have some skins . I have my grips I have my braces some golf clubs I've been around the world some vitamins something just sea water to play gels I don't know many things that help me a little a lot of course I travel with my

sports

clothes yes without this I can't feel comfortable on the court, so that's something I can't forget, no, well, I always bring casual clothes because I like to go out to dinner, you know, forget. distract ourselves a little from all the routines, so we are always trying to go out to dinner to see different places and of course, if we can go to a party to celebrate something important, it is good to have it there.

We don't have many days when we travel uh because we practice almost every day and we recover but when I can have some days off I like to get to know the city a little or for example I'm here in Melbourne and one day we went to the beach to have lunch at a restaurant. I have my iPods, yes, with me almost all the time because when you're on the plane, when you're right before games, it's unusual. I with music because I like almost everything I can listen to opera I can listen to reggaeton I can listen to uh classical music or uh pop rock uh it's true that electronic music is not mine that's the only music I can't but the rest of the things depend of the moment and it depends on the mood you are my passport without without a passport I don't go anywhere so yes, it is something that is always in my bag ready to travel well, of course I like to be at home we have beautiful islands near my port uh you know with ibiza we have menorca uh cabrera formentera so we can take the boat and visit bad places to travel away from home my favorite places are exumas wow I needed to change the previous one because there were no more pages available and it was not expired but I needed to change to this new passport to play tennis I always travel with my painkillers you know I have 34 and a half many kilometers under my shoulders, so sometimes I needed to keep going, but that is also part of the sport, you know, and it is part of my life, so That sometimes these kinds of things happen and the only thing you can do is try to do the best in each of them. time to try to recover I can't travel without my mask I have to do it I have my mask always with me with this terrible period of time we're going uh yeah there's no crowd at the French Open Roland Arrows it's been around 2000 The people at the final and before it was around 1 000 1 500 a year of course playing without the crowd is a different story the energy of the crowd is an adrenaline level or intensity level but you gotta get used to it here we are.

Melbourne now and Melbourne, the situation is very good with this pandemic, so there will be a lot more people in the crowd, but of course, we will play in a Grand Slam today or every event, we will do our best, but of course , we will fail. There are a lot of people, you enter the court and you feel this great atmosphere that we are well used to. The main thing, when you are a child, is to have fun playing tennis. No, if you don't enjoy it, Dennis, it's impossible now because it's a long journey to become a professional, so the first thing you have to do is have fun and of course you have to have the right people by your side, that's the key, not if you don't have the right people to help you. help yourself in the right way from the beginning so that things become much more difficult or not impossible but of course much more difficult, you have to demand from yourself what you really need to be better and just go to the court every days with uh with a goal with the goal of being better thank you all for checking out my essentials.

I hope to see you again very soon. See you.