Rafael Nadal, 22 world’s number 1 tennis champ is featured shirtless in the latest issue of New York magazine. Nadal is muscular, tall, dark and handsome.. If you are into the Latin looks, he definitely a hottie, isn’t he?
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photo credit: New York magazine/Nigel Parry
While Michael Phelps deserves a lot of attention for wining a record of eight gold metals in a single Olympics, Rafael probably deserves more attention from us for being so darn sexy! Nadal officially unseated Roger Federer of Switzerland to become the world’s No. 1 tennis player when the ATP rankings came out yesterday that’s after his win at the Beijing Olympics last Sunday.
Rafael, 22, born on June 3rd, 1986 in beautiful, Manacor, Majorca is a Spanish tennis pro.
Rafael: “I am playing an unbelievable season, no doubt,” Nadal said. “I have to be very happy for everything. The feeling, for sure, is very happy for being number one, but the feeling doesn’t change too much because the last years I did very well, too. It is a satisfaction … I want to enjoy these two days probably, but later I have to be focused on New York [for the U.S. Open, which begins Monday].”
An excerpt from the article “The Beefcake in the Backcourt“ in New York magazine: And now here’s Nadal. His has been called a “pirate” look, but the interesting thing about Nadal’s style is that it’s so feminine—a thinner, less physical player could not pull off those clothes. Maybe that’s why he’s been greeted with the kind of moral outrage—“Abominable!” “Infernal!”—usually reserved for the latest female player to show too much skin. Debate over the pants in particular, and Nadal’s habit of reaching back to loosen them between points, has trespassed on the familiar terrain of comfort versus sex appeal. Are they too tight? Is it one of his many elaborate on-court rituals (Nadal’s own explanation)? Or are his butt muscles just too big?
source: New York magazine photos: Nigel Parry/New York magazine and PR Photos
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