{"id":4984,"date":"2026-07-03T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/03\/rafael-nadal-from-grand-slams-to-global-hospitality-building-a-business-empire-post-tennis\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:05:14","slug":"rafael-nadal-from-grand-slams-to-global-hospitality-building-a-business-empire-post-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/03\/rafael-nadal-from-grand-slams-to-global-hospitality-building-a-business-empire-post-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal: From Grand Slams to Global Hospitality \u2014 Building a Business Empire Post-Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Rafael Nadal is actively building a post-retirement business empire, expanding his Zel Hotels brand and growing the Rafa Nadal Academy globally. Set to retire in November 2024, he aims to create a legacy off the court, drawing on lessons from his athletic career to navigate the competitive worlds of hospitality, education, and sports. Nadal also offered insights into the recent tennis prize money dispute, advocating for a balanced, long-term agreement between players and Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/03\/rafael-nadal-tennis-prize-money-hotels-business-lessons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Rafael Nadal is actively building a post-retirement business empire, expanding his Zel Hotels brand and growing the Rafa Nadal Academy globally. Set to retire in November 2024, he aims to create a legacy off the court, drawing on lessons from his athletic career to navigate the competitive worlds of hospitality, education, and sports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108330128-2026_MEETS_YOUTUBE_RAFAEL_NADAL_THUMBNAIL_1920x1080_CLEAN_1.jpg?v=1783014325&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-travel","rifnote_country-china","rifnote_country-dominican-republic","rifnote_country-greece","rifnote_country-hong-kong","rifnote_country-kuwait","rifnote_country-mexico","rifnote_country-spain","rifnote_competition-french-open","rifnote_competition-grand-slams","rifnote_competition-olympic-games","rifnote_competition-wimbledon","rifnote_player-aryna-sabalenka","rifnote_player-jannik-sinner","rifnote_player-rafael-nadal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108330128-2026_MEETS_YOUTUBE_RAFAEL_NADAL_THUMBNAIL_1920x1080_CLEAN_1.jpg?v=1783014325&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}