The Rafa Nadal Academy is set to make its debut in Brazil with a new facility. It will be the first Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in South America, joining existing centers in Kuwait, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Greece, Marbella, Hong Kong, and Egypt.
The new Rafa Nadal Tennis Center will be located in Porto Belo, in the state of Santa Catarina, and will feature world-class sports facilities including 17 tennis courts (9 outdoor, 7 indoor, and 1 central court) with both clay (6) and hard (11) surfaces. In addition, the center will include 8 padel courts, a café, a sports shop, and a dedicated gym for players and visitors.
Scheduled to open at the end of 2028, the center will offer tennis programs for players of all ages and levels, based on the methodology developed by Rafa Nadal and his coaching team over more than two decades on the professional circuit.
The new facility will be part of the ambitious All Resort Resort Club Residence project, developed by the All Wert Group. This newly built residential and hotel resort will become one of the country’s most innovative leisure and sports destinations. In addition to the Rafa Nadal Tennis Center, the resort will feature a lit golf course, an artificial beach with a wave pool, soccer fields, three hotels, and over 12,000 residents.
“We are very excited that the Academy’s international expansion is now reaching South America,” said Rafa Nadal. “Brazil has a great passion for sports, and I am confident this project will be successful.”
The Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers are designed as a complementary division of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar in Mallorca. These tennis complexes, located in top-tier tourist and residential resorts, combine leisure, tourism, and high-level sports coaching.
The Porto Belo facility will become part of the international RNA network, which currently includes two academies (Manacor and Kuwait), five Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers located in Costa Mujeres (Mexico), Sani (Greece), Hong Kong, Marbella, and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), as well as the Rafa Nadal Tennis Program established in Egypt.
