However, Federer failed to make the final at the other two Majors, losing in the semifinals of the Australian Open to Marat Safin and the French Open to Rafael Nadal.
In addition, Federer made two other Grand Slam finals, Australian Open losing to Rafael Nadal, and the US Open, losing to Juan Martín del Potro.
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The year saw Federer accomplishing three major goals: winning his first French Open title, breaking Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam wins, and regaining the no. 1 ranking from Rafael Nadal.
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Federer went on to win two other Master Series 1000 tournaments: in Madrid over Rafael Nadal, and in Cincinnati over Novak Djokovic.
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It also marked the first time Federer had lost in a Grand Slam final to an opponent other than Rafael Nadal.
"El Matador" was the intro song for #1 tennis player in the world Rafael Nadal in the 2010 US Open Night Sessions.
Gramble’s cornerstone investor is Novamedia, the third-largest charity donor in the world with $7 billion in donations made (as of summer 2012), thanks in part to high-profile ambassadors such as Bill Clinton, Rafael Nadal, Nelson Mandela, and Sir Richard Branson.
In August 2011, Carlin collaborated with tennis superstar Rafael Nadal on the latter's autobiography Rafa (Hyperion, 2012, ISBN 1401310923).
On a personal level, Father Ruiz was said to be an ardent fan of Formula One, Real Madrid and Rafael Nadal.
Maxime "Max" Omer Mathieu Decugis or Décugis (24 September 1882 – 6 September 1978) was a male tennis player from France who holds, together with Rafael Nadal, the French Championships/French Open record of winning the tournament eight times (a French-only tournament before 1925).
Between 2005 and 2013 inclusive, Rafael Nadal won 46 consecutive matches at the Monte Carlo Masters, which is a record for most consecutive wins at one tournament by any man or woman.
Rafael Nadal | San Rafael, California | Rafael Hernández Colón | Rafael Viñoly | San Rafael | Rafael Trujillo | Rafael Moneo | Rafael Osuna | Rafael Benítez | Jorge Rafael Videla | Rafael Sabatini | Rafael Correa | Rafael Cordero Santiago | Rafael Alberti | San Rafael, Mendoza | San Rafael, Bulacan | Rafael Squirru | Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Rafael Escalona | Rafael | Rafael Sperafico | Rafael Solano | Rafael Ruelas | Rafael Rosell | Rafael Morales | Rafael Merry del Val | Rafael Lima (boxer) | Rafael Lima | Rafael Ithier | Rafael Guastavino |
The men's singles was headlined by World No. 1 Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and David Nalbandian.
David Nalbandian, who prior to the tournament had not even reached the semifinal stage of a tournament in the season, suddenly began playing superlative tennis, repeating Novak Djokovic's feat of the Canada Masters, of beating the world's top three players in three consecutive days, with Nalbandian doing it in order of 2 (Rafael Nadal), 3 (Novak Djokovic) and 1 (Roger Federer).
The men's singles featured World No. 1, Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, French Open winner and Stuttgart titlist Rafael Nadal, and new ATP No. 3 and Miami Masters champion Novak Djokovic.
Andrei Pavel and Alexander Waske won in the final 6–3, 7–6(7–1), against Rafael Nadal and Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal.
Group B is led by the French Open champion and 10-time Slam champion Rafael Nadal, and 16-time Slam champion and French Open runner-up Roger Federer.
Many fellow players current and former, took to Twitter in order to congratulate Murray, including Rafael Nadal, Pat Cash, Laura Robson, Victoria Azarenka, Jo Durie and Colin Fleming, as well as a host of other sportsmen and celebrities such as Gary Lineker, Sir Chris Hoy, Gordon Reid, Stephen Fry and Sir Alex Ferguson.
He reached the boys' singles final of Wimbledon in 2002, defeating Rafael Nadal en route before losing to Todd Reid.
On May 2, 2007 it staged the 'Battle of Surfaces' tennis match which saw Mallorca local and World No. 2 Rafael Nadal take on World No. 1 Roger Federer.
In arguably his best performance to date, he did manage to reach the semi-finals of the Challenger event at Segovia in 2003, where he played Rafael Nadal.
In popular culture, Ruya is first used to describe tennis star Rafael Nadal on the Baidu Rafa Post Bar (rafa Bar of Baidu Tieba).