Brazil to host South America’s first Rafael Nadal Tennis Center – Tennis Now
By Richard Pagliaro Saturday, November 29, 2025
Photo credit: Rafael Nadal Academy
Rafael Nadal is bringing 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 Puerto Bello, Santa Catarina, and will offer world-class sports facilities including 17 tennis courts (9 outdoor, 7 indoor and 1 center), with clay (6) and fast (11) courts. In addition, it will feature eight cricket pitches, 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 All Wert Group. The new residential and hotel resort will become one of the country’s most innovative leisure and sports destinations.
The Brazilian home of the Rafael Nadal Tennis Center is scheduled to open at the end of 2028. It will join established Rafael Nadal Tennis Centers in Kuwait, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Greece, Marbella, Hong Kong and Egypt as part of Nadal’s global expansion.
“We are delighted that the Academy’s international expansion is expanding into South America,” said Rafael Nadal. “Brazil has a huge passion for sport and I am confident that this project will be a success.”
The Rafael Nadal Tennis Center is a department designed to complement the Rafael Nadal Academy at Movistar in Mallorca. They are tennis complexes in premier resorts and residential resorts that combine leisure, tourism and world-class sports training.
The Porto Bello complex will become part of the international RNA Center network, which currently includes two academies (Manacor and Kuwait), five Rafa Nadal Tennis Centers in Costa Mujeres (Mexico), Sani (Greece), Hong Kong, Marbella and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), as well as the Rafa Nadal Tennis Program created in Egypt.
