The Warrior
Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay
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The Warrior
Narrated by:
Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Narrated by:
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Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Written by:
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Christopher Clarey
About this listen
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the bestselling author of The Master, longlisted for the 2025 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
An intimate, original biography of tennis legend Rafael Nadal, and the first to cover his entire career.
After his award-winning look at Roger Federer, Christopher Clarey, one of the world's pre-eminent tennis writers, focuses his lens on Nadal, the Spanish force of nature. When he arrived on the scene in 2005, the record for men's singles titles at the French Open stood at six. Nadal more than doubled that total to a mind-blowing fourteen titles: one of the greatest sporting achievements in history.
Nadal won big and won often on all of tennis's surfaces: securing two Wimbledon titles on grass and six on the US Open and Australian Open hard courts. But clay, the grittiest of the game's playgrounds, is where it all came together best for his whipping forehand and warrior mindset.
Clarey, who has covered Nadal since he was seventeen, draws on interviews over twenty years with Nadal, his team and rivals like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Brimming with behind-the-scenes insight, The Warrior tells the story of a global sporting icon, interlacing man and place in a unique, must-read account of the evolution of excellence.©2025 Christopher Clarey
Critic Reviews
Shrewd and informative (The Times)
An affectionate and insightful biography . . . Clarey supplements this two-decade highlight reel with rich digressions into tennis history (Financial Times)
The definitive volume on the definitive clay court player of all time (Vogue)
[Clarey] wrote what is widely regarded as the definitive book on Roger Federer: "The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer." Now he has produced a similarly authoritative book on Federer's longtime rival and friend, Rafael Nadal (New York Times)
If you have ever held a racket or seen a champion play, you will find this splendid book a rich source of pleasure and inspiration (Daily Mail)
Comprehensive . . . Rafa's humility and sportsmanship shine in this glowing portrait that also abounds with wider tennis trivia (Daily Mail)
The definitive portrait of the Spanish champion (Sunday Times, Books of the Year)
A scintillating account of the elastic Spaniard's epic run to the pinnacle of men's professional tennis (Wall Street Journal Book Review)
Masterful . . . this splendid book is a rich source of pleasure and inspiration (Mail on Sunday)
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