The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay

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一部深度剖析拉斐爾・納達爾的傳記，首次完整回顧這位網球傳奇橫跨全職業生涯的輝煌歷程。

繼榮獲讚譽的費德勒傳記之後，全球頂尖網球記者之一的Christopher Clarey將目光轉向了西班牙的網壇戰神——拉斐爾・納達爾。

當納達爾於2005年嶄露頭角時，法網男子單打的奪冠紀錄僅為六座。他不僅打破紀錄，更將它提升至驚人的十四座冠軍，締造體育史上最偉大的成就之一。

納達爾不僅在紅土稱霸，也在各種場地締造傳奇：兩次溫布頓（草地）冠軍、六座美網與澳網（硬地）冠軍。他的勁道正拍與鬥士精神，在最艱難的紅土賽場上，淬鍊出無與倫比的戰力。

本書作者自納達爾17歲起便開始採訪，採集超過二十年的訪談內容，訪問對象包含納達爾本人、他的教練與團隊，以及競爭對手如費德勒與喬科維奇。本書充滿幕後第一手觀察，描繪這位全球體育偶像的完整面貌，深刻交織個人、土地與榮耀的故事，是一部絕對不容錯過的傳奇紀實之作。

From the bestselling author of The Master, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

An intimate, original biography of tennis legend Rafael Nadal, and the first to cover his entire career.

After his award-winning look at Roger Federer, Christopher Clarey, one of the world's pre-eminent tennis writers, focuses his lens on Nadal, the Spanish force of nature. When he arrived on the scene in 2005, the record for men's singles titles at the French Open stood at six. Nadal more than doubled that total to a mind-blowing fourteen titles: one of the greatest sporting achievements in history.

Nadal won big and won often on all of tennis's surfaces: securing two Wimbledon titles on grass and six on the US Open and Australian Open hard courts. But clay, the grittiest of the game's playgrounds, is where it all came together best for his whipping forehand and warrior mindset.

Clarey, who has covered Nadal since he was seventeen, draws on interviews over twenty years with Nadal, his team and rivals like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Brimming with behind-the-scenes insight, The Warrior tells the story of a global sporting icon, interlacing man and place in a unique, must-read account of the evolution of excellence.