FOOTAGE of the world's top tennis star Rafael Nadal on his hands and knees cleaning up his own gym has gone viral on social media – showing once again that winning 19 Grand Slams and being dubbed 'King of Clay' does not exempt anyone from having to get their hands dirty.
The 12-times Roland Garros champion hit international headlines in October 2018 after flash floods devastated the Mallorca town of Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, not far from the sports ace's home town of Manacor, when he was photographed bailing out water logged homes and spading mud off the streets.
A snap of him in green wellies and mud-stained jacket and trousers, leaning on a rake, as part of an emergency clean-up team was further evidence of how un-starry the 33-year-old is.
Rafa's wedding a year on from the floods, to his high school sweetheart and the only girlfriend he has ever had, showed this again – Mery Perelló, 31, works with Nadal's mother in his charitable foundation and has never lived anywhere in her life except Manacor and Palma de Mallorca, where she went to university and then worked for Endesa and MAPFRE.
Now, up-and-coming tennis star and student at the Rafael Nadal sports academy, Madison McLeod, has made her instructor a social media hero again by uploading a video of him kneeling on the floor with towels wiping down the gym machines to clean sweat off them, whilst everyone else continues exercising.
He is shown at the bottom right of the above picture, found on madi.mcleod on Instagram.
