Tennis player Rafael Nadal will become a father for the first time

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Legendary tennis player, 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal and his wife Maria Perello are expecting their first child. This is reported by the Spanish magazine ¡Hola!. The magazine claims that sources have confirmed the rumors that have been circulating for weeks.

They themselves did not comment on this information.

By the way, in 2018, the 36-year-old tennis player said in an interview that he wanted to have children.

I intend and want to start a family. I love children,” he told Hola magazine.

He also said that he plans to have children only after the end of his career.

Someday my wife and I will have children. I want children and love them, but there is one important problem – the career continues. I will think about parenthood after I hang the racket on a nail. I used to be sure that by the age of thirty I would have quit acting. In the end, everything turned out differently. The career continues, which means that I can not devote enough time to children. Not now, – quoted him “Championship”.

The story of Nadal and Perello is worthy of a film adaptation: they have been together for 17 years. Maria Francisco Perella Pascual was born in Palma, Mallorca on July 7, 1988. The girl met the tennis player thanks to his sister Elise, and they only started dating in December 2005, although they had known each other since school.

They decided to legalize the relationship in October 2019 after 14 years of relationship. Their wedding ceremony was closed, so that not a single frame got into the network ahead of time. All guests, including the former king of Spain Juan Carlos I, former and current tennis players (Carlos Moya, David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez, Juan Monaco, Marc Lopez), were asked to arrive at the wedding without phones, and the police made sure that no one flew drones over the estate . Among the guests were also Serena Williams with her husband and daughter – the latter acted as a flower girl.