10 Things Rafael Nadal Can't Live Without

Now I only have one racket inside

because I am playing tomorrow.

So uh, though the rackets out on the

on the stringer getting ready for tomorrow

I don't need more.

I'm not breaking records, so.

What's up GQ.

I am Raphael Nadal, and here are my essentials.

First item for me, it's the, of course the

the phone is it's important for me when I am traveling

being out with, with the family, with the friends

with the team.

Most used app,

maybe WhatsApp.

Yeah, that's the, the first of everything.

Well,

my computer.

On the tennis tournament,

we have a lot of free hours on the, on the hotel.

So to not be all the time with, with the phone

with all the news, the newspaper, watch the TV.

I have been watching a lot of things.

So I even can, can remember a documentary

about the second world war a document of a Spanish series

on the laptop.

That makes things a little bit better for me.

So I dunno, I get used to, to travel with

with a laptop everywhere and they are still doing

Well, my rackets, my

my bag,

the racket, the shoes

all the things that they need to be

to be playing tennis.

I don't travel with my bag when I'm on holidays

but when I'm playing tennis, it's something that I

I can't live without this bag.

Honestly, now I only have one racket inside

because I am playing tomorrow.

So the other rackets out on the

on the stringer getting ready for tomorrow

I don't need more.

I'm not breaking records, so.

That's easy.

I like the small grip

because I have the feeling that when I have this

there's more weight on my hand,

I have a better control of what I'm doing

with the, with, with the hand.

I mean, I can produce more spins

than when I have a bigger grip on my, on my hand.

I feel more comfortable like this and this, yeah

difficult to change after all

all my life playing like this.

Numbers for the record.

I have some masks.

I have my grips on,

I have my orthotics

Some golf claps that had been around the world.

Some vitamins, some, just see, what are we playing.

Gels.

I know lots of things that helped me out with that as much.

Well, My, of course travel with my, with my sports.

Yeah.

Clothes without this, I can't feel comfortable on court.

So that's something that I can't forget.

I always bring myself

casual clothes

because I like to go out for dinner, you know,

to forget, to distract yourself

a little bit about the, all the, all the routines.

So we are always trying to, to go out for dinner to

to ya know different places.

And of course, if we are able to go to party to

celebrate something important, it's good to have it there.

We don't have many off days when we are traveling

because we practice almost every single day

and we do recover.

But when I am able to have some days off

Ya know.

I like to know a little bit the city

or for example here in Melbourne.

And we went to them to the beach one day to have lunch

in a restaurant.

I have my, my air pods yeah, with me almost all the time.

Because when you are on the plane, when you are uh

just before the matches and usually with the music.

Because I like almost everything.

I can listen opera,

I can listen to reggaeton,

I can listen to classic music or pop rock.

It's true

that the electronic music is not my one.

That's the only music that I can't.

But the rest of the things depends

on the moment and depends on the mood that you have.

My passport without, without the passport

I don't go anywhere.

So yeah, it's something that is always in my

in my bag, ready to travel.

Well, of course, I like to be at home.

We have a beautiful islands close to my port, you know

We have Ibiza, we have Menorcra, Cabrera, Formentera.

So we are able to take the boat and visit those places.

To travel away from home, my favorite places is Exumas.

Wow. I needed to change the the previous one

because there is there were no more pages available

and was not expired

but I needed to change to this new passport.

To play tennis, I always travel with my pain killers.

You know, I am 34 and a half,

a lot of kilometers under my shoulders.

So I just need it to keep going sometimes that

but that's part of the sport too.

And that's part of my life.

So sometimes this kind of stuff happens

and it's all the thing that you can do is try to do the best

in every single moment to try to recover.

I can't travel without my mask.

I have to, I have my mask always with me

with this variable period of time that we are living.

Yeah, no crowd in the French Open

rolling the hours have been just around 2000 people

in the final before was around 1000, 1,500 per year.

Of course, playing without the crowd is a different story.

And the energy of the crowd is a level of adrenaline

another level of intensity,

but you need to get used to it.

Here we are in Melbourne now, and Melbourne

the situation is very good with this pandemic.

And so going to be a much more people on the

in the crowd, but of course,

playing in a glass land today

or in every single event, we try our best.

But of course, we miss a lot,

the crowd and go inside the court

and feel this great atmosphere that we are used to.

Well, the main thing, when you are a kid is have fun.

Playing tennis, ya know.

If you don't enjoy tennis, it's impossible now.

Because there's a long journey to become a professional now.

So the first thing that you need to

do is just have fun.

Then of course

you need to have the right people next to you.

That's the key.

If you don't have the right people

that are going to help you

the proper way since the beginning.

So the things become much more difficult, not impossible

but of course, much more difficult.

You have to demand yourself.

What do you really need to be better?

And to just go and call every single day with a

with a goal, with a goal to be better.

Thank you guys for checking out my essentials.

I hope to see you very soon again.

See you.