The award for recycling of the day has been won by the newspaper ABC, which has dug up old interviews and statements by Rafa Nadal to build a story clearly intended to chase clicks and spark debate on social media. The headline was as follows: "I am happy to be Spanish, but when the tax bill arrives I am a little less so". The newspaper begins the information with a very significant fact, and that is that according to the magazine Forbes, Nadal earned 135 million dollars in cash between 2002 and 2024. It should be taken into account that this is only one part, and perhaps not the main one, of the Mallorcan tennis player's source of income. It is estimated that income from sponsorships multiplies this figure by 3 or 4. And then we arrive at the phrase in question. It corresponds to an interview with the Corriere della Sera from the year 2020, the same one in which he explains that his whole family is Madridista, although some switched to Barça when his uncle, Miquel Àngel Nadal, played there. He did not.

When you enter the Roland Garros grounds in western Paris, you're greeted by a giant, three-meter-high sculpture made of 800 kg of steel depicting Rafa Nadal returning a ball. The legend of the player from Manacor, a 14-stroke winner of the legendary Grand Slam on clay, seems to go on forever. If in the early years the Parisians, always proud, looked askance at the young Mallorcan who played sleeveless, over time they surrendered to his game and decided to take care of it. They dedicated this statue to him, the work of the Valladolid-based sculptor Jordi Díez, son of a Catalan father, and made him the main attraction of their tournament.