By Sam Jones | @TennisNow | Monday, March 3, 2025
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The partnership between Rafa Nadal and Babolat is growing stronger.
Supplying official padel racquets, footwear, balls, accessories, and bags for the Rafa Nadal Academy, Babolat further strengthens its long-standing and successful partnership with the Academy.
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All coaches at the Academy are equipped with Babolat gear, and the Academy’s tournaments, school, and training facilities in Manacor, Spain, also showcase the brand’s products.
This well-established partnership began with Babolat’s involvement with Rafa Nadal when he was just nine years old.
The two brands have been working closely together since then with Rafa’s tennis racquets and strings, the inception of the Rafa Nadal Academies, and reinforcing this partnership to the padel division of the Academy is a natural progression.
Babolat is already involved in several key events with the Academy, including supporting the Rafa Nadal Academy padel tours by The Adecco Group organized in Spain during 2024 and being a sponsor of the Hexagon Cup RNA Team in 2024. Additionally, Babolat has had strong synergies with the Academy through its association with professional padel player Patricia Martinez.
Babolat will also support the Rafa Nadal Academy Padel Tours in Spain, Italy, and Poland this year. “We are thrilled to intensify our collaboration with the Rafa Nadal Academy in the world of padel,” Babolat CEO Eric Babolat said. “Our relationship with Rafa Nadal dates to his childhood, and we are proud to support him since then.
“It feels only natural to intensify this partnership to the padel side of the Academy, especially as Babolat plays a major role in the growth of padel globally.”
