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.