The world’s number one tennis player, Spanish Rafael Nadal, has been exhibiting a second replica of the Conde de Godó trophy since Monday in the museum of his academy in Manacor, which testifies that he has won the Barcelona tournament ten times.
Albert Agustí, president of the Real Club Tennis Barcelona (RCTB-1899), and Javier Godó, Count of Godó, presented Nadal with an identical replica of the trophy in a private ceremony at the academy facilities, and in which the family of the Mallorcan tennis player was also present.
“I am very excited about this second great trophy here, but there will be no more,” explained Nadal, who will play his fourteenth Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in April, and who would need at least another five years to repeat this feat that has signed twice during his career.
Agustí, on the contrary, has encouraged him to achieve it. “You will have to dedicate more space in the showcases because I am sure that these ten trophies will not end,” he told ‘Rafa’.
Javier Godó recalled that they wanted to shield the trophy so that it would not be easily taken away. “But it was not possible with you,” he told Nadal, who between 2005 and 2017 has won the tournament ten times, a figure that no other tennis player in the history of the tournament. tennis it has reached in no competition on the calendar.
In 2009 he was awarded the first, for his first five victories in the tournament, and this Monday he received an identical replica that already has a place in the museum’s showcases.
From today, the two trophies of the Count of Godó rest in the museum’s stands along with the 10 small reproductions that Nadal has received each year for his triumph.