The Warrior
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Master comes an intimate biography of tennis’s enduring champion Rafael Nadal.
In The Warrior, Christopher Clarey illuminates the skill and determination it took to accomplish Rafael Nadal’s most mind-blowing achievement: 14 French Open titles. Nadal has won big on tennis's many surfaces en route to becoming...
Published By Grand Central Publishing
Format Hardback
Category
Number Of Pages 368
Publication Date 05/13/2025
ISBN 9781538759134
Dimensions 6.4 inches x 9.35 inches
“A scintillating account of the elastic Spaniard’s epic run to the pinnacle of men’s professional tennis.”—Wall Street Journal Book Review
"The definitive volume on the definitive clay court player of all time."—Vogue
“Christopher Clarey wrote what is widely regarded as the definitive book on Roger Federer: The Master. Now he has produced a similarly authoritative book on Federer’s longtime rival and friend, Rafael Nadal: The Warrior. The book tells the story of both Nadal and clay-court tennis, using the Spanish great’s relationship with Roland Garros, the French Open, as its frame."—The New York Times
"A wonderful addition to the canon of great tennis books... offers new insight into Nadal's unprecedented dominance on clay courts."—Town & Country
"Shrewd and informative."—The Times
"[Christopher Clarey] is well positioned to write Nadal’s biography, having already penned The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer. Clarey can thus be called the Walter Isaacson of sports biographers - and we now await his verdict on Djokovic."
—The Federal
“Though the narrative focuses on Nadal, Roland-Garros’s clay courts become a character in their own right as Clarey provides rich background on the event’s history... It’s a meticulous recap of one of tennis’s great achievements.”—Publishers Weekly
“This insightful, wide-ranging book could serve as a model for other sports biographers.... An inspired portrait of an unusually dominant athlete.”—Kirkus Reviews