Rafael Nadal retires: Six incredible stats that sum up Rafa’s legendary tennis career

29-2: To statesman wherever it ended, Nadal’s lone TWO defeats successful Davis Cup singles play came against Jiri Novak successful his debut successful 2004 and against van de Zandschulp successful his past competitory match. As Nadal said: “We adjacent the circle.”

912: Nadal was conscionable 18 — and yet to triumph a Grand Slam rubric — erstwhile helium archetypal moved into the apical 10 of the ATP rankings connected April 25, 2005. He remained determination for 912 consecutive weeks, until March 19, 2023. A span of astir 18 afloat years, the longest tally of appearances successful the apical 10 successful the half-century-plus past of the computerized rankings successful men’s tennis.

32 – Rafael Nadal won 32 consecutive Davis Cup matches incl. Singles and Doubles betwixt September 2006 (v Volandri) and November 2019 (v Shapovalov): the longest winning streak successful past of the contention – 10 much than the second-best. #GraciasRafa!#DavisCup | @DavisCup

— OptaAce (@OptaAce) November 19, 2024

22 Grand Slams, 14 astatine French Open: Second among men to Novak Djokovic’s 24. His 14 championships astatine the French Open are the astir astatine immoderate Grand Slam tourney by a antheral oregon woman. He boasts an utterly ridiculous 112-4 vocation win-loss grounds astatine Roland Garros. His 63 clay-court titles are besides the astir for a antheral successful the Open era.

1,080-228: That win-loss vocation grounds successful tour-level singles matches gives him the fourth-most wins among men successful the Open era, which dates to 1968, down Connors (1,274), Federer (1,251) and Djokovic (1,124)

23: Nadal registered 23 victories successful matches against a antheral ranked No. 1 astatine the time, which is the astir since ATP computerized rankings began successful 1973. As Federer wrote: “Rafa, you made maine bask the crippled adjacent more. OK, possibly not astatine first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the archetypal time. I thought I was connected apical of the world. And I was—until 2 months later, erstwhile you walked connected the tribunal successful Miami successful your reddish sleeveless shirt, showing disconnected those biceps, and you bushed maine convincingly.”

(With AP inputs)