{"id":74487,"date":"2025-07-19T04:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74487\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:37:10","slug":"legends-reunite-federer-visits-nadal-at-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74487\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends Reunite: Federer Visits Nadal at Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:13px !important; font-weight:bold; padding-right:2%;\">By Richard Pagliaro |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tennis_now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@TennisNow<\/a>\u00a0| Friday, July 18, 2025<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"INSERT IMAGE ALT TAGS HERE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nadal-Federer-RafaNadalAcademy.aspx.jpeg\" style=\"margin: 0px 15px 15px; width: 610px; height: 429px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"position:relative;top:-85px;left:32px;padding-right:20px;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;color:#FFFFFF;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tIconic champions Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal reunited in Mallorca this week, sparking speculation they could face off in exhibitions in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Rafa Nadal Academy<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px !important;padding-right:2%;\">Tennis legends and rivals <b>Roger Federer<\/b> and <b>Rafa Nadal<\/b> reunited in Mallorca this week.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer traveled to the Nadal Academy to spend time with the King of Clay.<\/p>\n<p>Photos and video of the iconic champions spread all over the internet sparking speculation perhaps Roger and Rafa will reunite for some exhibitions in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/shop-by-tennis-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tennis Express\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-pro-player-gear-610-150-w-logoNEWBIE.aspx.jpeg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMQAtgTtabL\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRoger Federer! Really enjoyed our morning together at the @rnadalacademy!\u201d Rafa Nadal posted on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMNl1AjIkmo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second time in the last six weeks the legendary champions have spent time together. Swiss Maestro Federer joined fellow Big 4 champions Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray honoring the King of Clay in his powerful and poignant farewell to Roland Garros celebration in Paris on opening weekend of Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKG22ZDoDrA\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, Federer shared he has resumed tennis training and hopes to play exhibition matches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed for a Roger-Rafa reunion on court for some future exhibition matches. In recent years, Federer has played exos with Juan Martin del Potro and Alexander Zverev. <\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro |\u00a0@TennisNow\u00a0| Friday, July 18, 2025 &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Iconic champions Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[51905,718,51903,51902,105,51893,51907,51904,62,1464,51890,51900,51896,51898,51891,51899,51892,10119,51897,51901,51894,51895,67,132,68,51906],"class_list":["post-74487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-ranking","tag-community","tag-discussion","tag-game-improvement","tag-latest-news","tag-live-tennis-scores","tag-player-profiles","tag-social-network","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-blogs","tag-tennis-coaches","tag-tennis-community","tag-tennis-equipment","tag-tennis-forums","tag-tennis-gear","tag-tennis-media","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-social-network","tag-tennis-tips","tag-tennis-tournament-schedules","tag-tennis-tv-listings","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wta-ranking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114878050654749677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}