From series on Netflix to renewable energy: the businesses that Rafa Nadal manages outside the tennis courts.

The winner of 14 Roland Garros had to leave the activity temporarily after suffering an injury during the Australian Open.

The famous courts of Paris missed Rafael Nadal this year. The winner of 14 Roland Garros had to leave the activity temporarily after suffering an injury during the Australian Open and, despite leaving the way clear for Novak Djokovic to reach his Grand Slam No. 23, the Mallorca-born man took the opportunity to bring out his role as investor and entrepreneur.

“La Fiera”, as his fans nickname him, is clear that this may be the last year of his career and that is why for some time he began his path in various businesses, ranging from the real estate sector to renewable energy. , through tourism. All this, outside of his tennis training academy.

With the help of his father, Sebastián Nadal, and his mother, Ana María Parera, Nadal invests through a holding company called Aspemir, with which he managed to obtain profits of around 11.4 million euros in 2021 (according to the statement presented by the Nadal family in the Spanish Mercantile Registry).

Through this holding, “Rafa” invests in a dozen companies and the best known is Mabel Capital, of which it holds 33.3%, together with its other two partners, the Ibizan hotel businessman Abel Matutes Prats and the entrepreneur Manuel Campos. It is a business with a presence and assets in five countries and focused, as they themselves explain through their website, on investing and managing the capital of its owner partners “in a diversified way” through real estate assets, private capital and industry focused on customer service.

In addition, along with another well-known sport such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Nadal participates in the investment of Tatel restaurants, which has locations in nine cities around the world. His other Italian restaurants -under the Totó brand- would leave Spain in the coming months to make the leap to other European cities.

The Iberian tennis player achieved a successful alliance with the Matutes family —owner of the Palladium chain and businesses such as Ushuaia and Hard Rock Ibiza— which allowed him to open Tatel branches in cities such as Mexico, Doha or Abu Dhabi.

On the other hand, together with the Escarrer family, owners of Meliá, Nadal began a new investment in the tourism sector with the creation of the Zel chain, which aims to promote.

Rafa Nadal Academy: Rafael Nadal’s mix of business and tennis

One of the biggest deals achieved by the Manacori, or the main one, was produced thanks to the Rafa Nadal Academy, with the support of Telefonica. It is a huge complex that includes a sports center with intensive tennis campuses for young people and adults, as well as an international school and a residence, which came up with controversy after an amendment was approved in the Balearic Islands housing law that allowed its use as a hotel and in which it is possible to book a stay on portals such as Booking.

Welcome to the Tennis Paradise in Mallorca! VAMOS‼️ 👀🦅 pic.twitter.com/nacpul4sEX

— Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar (@rnadalacademy) April 13, 2023

Nadal’s assets —the ATP calculated at the beginning of the year that he had won more than 134 million euros in prizes alone— also includes investments in the renewable energy sector, million-dollar agreements to advertise brands ranging from Banco Santander to automobiles ( Kia), and a foundation with its own name, to which his wife, María Francisca Perelló, is mainly dedicated.