{"id":346585,"date":"2026-05-26T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-nadals-tennis-career-almost-ended-after-his-first-grand-slam\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:00:10","slug":"how-nadals-tennis-career-almost-ended-after-his-first-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-nadals-tennis-career-almost-ended-after-his-first-grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nadal&#8217;s tennis career almost ended after his first Grand Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/IAQsYtsk9xk\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How Nadal's tennis career almost ended after his first Grand Slam\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IAQsYtsk9xk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal enjoyed one of the greatest tennis careers in the history of the sport. A total of 22 grand slams, including a record 14 French Open titles and 209 weeks as world No. 1, all while playing in arguably the most competitive era of men\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n<p>But while his achievements have been well documented, what is lesser known is how close it came to never happening at all, and how an injury sustained at the start of his career almost derailed everything he had worked towards.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal sits down with CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour to reflect on his career and a forthcoming documentary about his life.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 How is retirement treating Rafael Nadal?<br \/>\n3:34 &quot;I think in the documentary, you want to see all the success. . .But you&#8217;re always going to see the suffering.&quot;<br \/>\n5:24 The &quot;toughest part&quot; of Rafa&#8217;s career<br \/>\n13:26 &quot;Outside of the tennis court. . .I am not that organized&quot;<br \/>\n17:45 Did Nadal feel the weight of Spain&#8217;s hopes and dreams?<\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/p>\n<p>#RafaelNadal #Rafa #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal enjoyed one of the greatest tennis careers in the history of the sport. A total of 22 grand slams, including a record 14 French Open titles and 209 weeks as world No. 1, all while playing in arguably the most competitive era of men\u2019s tennis. But while his achievements have been well documented, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[146400,150833,141616],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-346585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-enjoyed","tag-nadal","tag-rafael"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Nadal&#039;s tennis career almost ended after his first Grand Slam | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How Nadal&#039;s tennis career almost ended after his first Grand Slam for free, here on News ISC. 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