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Tennis star Rafael Nadal and longtime girlfriend Mery Perello will marry later this 12 months following the couple’s current engagement.
Nadal, who fell within the Australian Open ultimate to Novak Djokovic on Sunday, proposed to Perello whereas the couple had been on vacation in Rome in Could, Spanish journal Hola reported.
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The couple have been collectively for 14 years, with Mery, a enterprise graduate, at the moment working on the Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy in Mallorca.
She was within the field for Nadal’s staff on the Australian Open, solely the second time she has supported him Down Below, because the pair desire to not journey to each event collectively.
Nadal’s loss to Djokovic leaves the Spaniard second on the all-time Grand Slam singles record with 17, three behind Roger Federer.
By October, Nadal’s thoughts was as far-off from tennis as attainable.
Flash floods ravaged his native island of Mallorca, killing 13 individuals, together with the cousin of considered one of his greatest buddies and his younger son.
READ: Nadal reveals how he skilled the ‘tragedy’ of the Mallorca floods
“I actually lived that tragedy, from very shut,” Nadal informed CNN Sport in December. “It was very unhappy for all of the individuals who misplaced the supplies, however particularly, the lives that may’t come again.”
Nadal helped with the aid work after the floods, which primarily affected the city of Sant Llorenç des Cardas, simply six kilometers from the headquarters of his academy.
Photos of one of many world’s best tennis gamers, coated in mud and sweeping the streets with a brush, went around the globe.
“The following day, we went out on the court docket and after 10 minutes, I stated ‘Guys, I can not observe,'” he recalled of that day. “I got here again, I used to be right here with buddies after which we determined to go there. That is all.”
Later this 12 months, the 32-year-old, who has been dubbed the “King of Clay”, will look to shut the hole on Federer’s file by successful a twelfth French Open title at Roland Garros. The event will happen from Could 26 to June 9.
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