By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, November 29, 2025
Photo: Rafa Nadal Academy
Rafa Nadal is taking his tennis coaching expertise to South America.
Brazil will host the first Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in South America.
The new Rafa Nadal Tennis Center will be located in Porto Belo, in the state of Santa Catarina, and will offer world-class sports facilities with 17 tennis courts (9 outdoor, 7 indoor and one center court), clay (6) and fast court (11). In addition, it will have 8 padel courts, a cafe, a sports equipment store and an exclusive gym for players and visitors. The new complex will be part of the ambitious All Resort Resort Club Residence project, developed by All Wert Group. The newly built residential resort and hotel will become one of the country’s most innovative leisure and sports destinations.
The Brazilian home of the Rafa Nadal Tennis Center is scheduled to open in late 2028. It will join established Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers in Kuwait, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Greece, Marbella, Hong Kong and Egypt as part of Nadal’s global expansion.
“We are very happy that the international expansion of the academy is reaching South America,” said Rafa Nadal. “Brazil has a great passion for sports and I am sure that the project will be successful.”
The Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers have been created as a division to complement the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar in Mallorca. They are tennis complexes located in first-class holiday and residential resorts that combine leisure, tourism and world-class sports training.
The Porto Belo complex will be part of the network of international RNA centers, which now 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) together with the Rafa Nadal Tennis Program established in Egypt.
