“It was terrible. Scary, and very sad,” he said in December 2018, during an interview at his Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca.
“It happened in the village just next to us, just five or six kilometers away from here. I really lived that tragedy, from very close.
“Was very sad for all the people that lost the materials, but especially, the lives that can’t come back.”
Speaking on what made him decide to participate in clear-up efforts at the time, he said: “The next day, we went on court and after ten minutes, I said ‘Guys, I can’t practice.’ I came back, and I was here with the friends and after that, we decided to go there. That’s all.”
