WORLD number one tennis star Rafa Nadal has thrown open his eponymous tennis academy in Manacor as emergency accommodation for Mallorca flood victims.
About 50 residents on the island spent last night at the Rafa Nadal Sports Centre in the pearl-factory town, and will continue to have beds if they need them from tonight onwards.
Nadal, who was born in Manacor, was desperate to help his home islanders after some of the worst torrential rain and flash floods in living memory hit the town of San Llorenç des Cardassar this week.
Almost unprecedented in Balearic Island history, the heavens opened last night leaving more than 250 litres of rain per square metre (25 centimetres, or about 10 inches) in the space of an hour, turning the main street in San Llorenç into a river.
Six people are currently missing and nine people have died so far.
The regional government calls the situation 'dramatic'.
Photograph of Rafa Nadal Sports Centre by @rnadalacademy on Twitter
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