Brazil to Host First Rafa Nadal Tennis Center in South America – Tennis Now

By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, November 29, 2025Photo credit: Rafa Nadal Academy

Rafa Nadal is taking his tennis training 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 sporting facilities with 17 tennis courts (9 outdoor, 7 indoor and one center court), with both clay (6) and fast-court (11) surfaces. In addition, it will have 8 padel courts, a café, a sports equipment store and an exclusive gym for players and visitors. The new complex will form part of the ambitious All Resort Resort Club Residence project, developed by the All Wert Group. The newly-constructed residential and hotel resort will become one of the country’s most innovative leisure and sport destinations.

The Brazil home of the Rafa Nadal Tennis Center is scheduled to open in late 2028. It will join established Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers in Kuwait, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Greece, Marbella, Hong Kong and Egypt as part of Nadal’s global expansion.

“We’re so happy that the international expansion of the academy is reaching South America,” Rafa Nadal said. “Brazil has a huge passion for sport and I’m sure the project will be a success.”

The Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers are designed as a division to complement the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar in Mallorca. They are tennis complexes located in first-rate holiday and residential resorts that combine leisure, tourism, and world-class sports coaching.

The Porto Belo complex will form 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 (Grecia), Hong Kong, Marbella and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) along with the Rafa Nadal Tennis Program created in Egypt.