Rafael Nadal has done it again. After reaching his seventh consecutive tourney final, Nadal has won another title. Today he beat Stanislas Wawrink for the ATP Madrid Open championship. Nadal speaks perfect-postgame. Every opponent was tough. Every match has some importance. But when it came to this week's Madrid Open,...more

You never know who you'll run into when you're out for a night of poker. For instance, if you had been in Madrid and visiting the PokerStars room at Casino Gran Madrid, you might just have seen one of the most famous tennis players in the world. You recognize him?...more

Just a week after hoisting the Barcelona Open trophy above his head, Rafa Nadal had another championship in mind. This weekend, in advance of the upcoming Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), Rafa hit up PokerStars Spanish version of the festival, ESCOOP. Rafa chose event #6 yesterday, a six-max no-limit...more

The weather in Barcelona wasn't ideal. Rain delayed matches and soaked the clay courts at the ATP Barcelona Open. What's more, tennis legend and PokerStars favorite Rafa Nadal was coming off a runner-up finish at the Monte Carlo Masters. It was a situation where Rafa could've been forgiven for phoning...more

Forty-six. It's a winning streak so long, it would be a wonder if anyone ever broke the record. That was how many consecutive victories Rafael Nadal had at the Monte Carlo Masters. That was also, unfortunately, where it ended for Rafa today. Though the King of Clay was poised to...more

You must have seen the new Rafa Nadal video by now.* The king of clay is in a bath getting aces cracked by a former semi-pro pillow fighter who's too wrapped up in beating the 11-time Grand Slam champion to remember that she's in a library. Tsk, tsk. What a...more

There are not many people whose bath time can cause ripples around the world. Sure, there was Archimedes and his 'Eureka!'* moment, when the Greek scholar's plunge into water brought a revelation about volume displacement, but beyond that earthshaking tub events are slim on the ground. Tennis legend and Team...more

Rafa Nadal is the King of Clay, so when he won two clay court titles this year, no one raised more than one eyebrow. He may have been coming off a major injury, but he is still Rafa, after all. "Wait until he hits a hard court," many people said....more

If you're at all a fan of tennis, you remember the past seven months. It was a time when one of the living legends of the game was conspicuously absent from the court. Rafael Nadal, the king of Clay, was injured and incapable of playing. He couldn't find a way...more

If you follow Rafael Nadal on Twitter, you might have seen a bit of back and forth between the tennis legend and his buddy Joan Suasi. It seems both decided to compete in this weekend's PokerStars Sunday Storm, a tournament with more than 43,000 entries. Nadal and Suasi were less...more

It's been seven months in the shadows. Seven months of waiting. Seven months of "will Rafa ever return?" Finally, the tennis world has its answer to the question "Can Rafa still win?" The answer is finally...yes. This weekend at the Brazil Open in Sao Paulo, Rafael Nadal won more than...more

"I'm preparing to play God," Argentine tennis pro Horacio Zeballos was heard to say this morning. No one argued with him, because Zeballos' task on Sunday was to play a man named Rafa at the VTR Open finals in Vina del Mar, Chile. Zeballos broke down in tears and collapsed...more

There are some people who simply have winning in their blood. Tennis legend Rafa Nadal is one of those people, and he proved it again today as he won his very first PokerStars tournament. Nadal beat out 47 other players in a €10 freeze-out tourney on PokerStars.es. It took him...more

When tennis legend Rafa Nadal decided to take up poker, he likely knew there would be a learning curve. He'd have to learn the odds, appropriate bet-sizing, and the nuances of the game before he had a chance to compete at a professional level. This weekend, the poker fates took...more

Tennis star (and now Team PokerStars SportStar) Rafa Nadal is one of the world's most famous sportsmen. He's a colossus on the tennis court and famously smiley off it. He's the guy that your mother would want your sister to date and that you would be happy for her to...more

Rafa Nadal is known around the world as the King of Clay, a tennis beast that simply can't be beaten on the dusty red surface. Joshua Jacobs isn't internationally known as anything, although from this day forth he could be known as 'that kid who pulled a confused simper in...more

Have you ever had one of those dreams that was so good you didn't want to wake up? So real that it takes you a few minutes to realize that everything that happened in the dream was just a figment of your imagination? Unfortunately that was what happened to me...more

There are few people in this world that can say that they've beaten tennis superstar Rafa Nadal but even fewer that can say that they've schooled him. Isaac Mayolas, who you may have seen coaching Rafa how to bluff, is among that tiny elite but also holds the peculiar privilege...more

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Tony. He works at the golf course. If you need a set of spikes or a new five iron, he can get them for you. He's smiling, soft-spoken, and most definitely not international tennis superstar Rafa Nadal. Oh, sure, he looks lot...more

Would you like to face down Team PokerStars SportStar Rafa Nadal? Do you fancy having the chance to smash one of the biggest stars in the world with some choice check-raising? Well, now you can; in person, in Spain and on expenses. The promotion is aptly named 'Rafa Dream Day'...more