{"id":48042,"date":"2025-05-14T03:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48042"},"modified":"2025-05-14T03:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:04:08","slug":"rafael-nadal-lends-voice-to-2025-roland-garros-as-narrator-of-teaser-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48042","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal lends voice to 2025 Roland Garros as narrator of teaser trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rafael Nadal won’t be playing at Roland Garros this year, but the King of Clay will be omnipresent at the tournament he dominated in his career nonetheless. In addition to a forthcoming celebration\u00a0that tournament director Am\u00e9lie Mauresmo has promised will be “exceptional,”\u00a0the 14-time Roland Garros champion was revealed Monday as the voice of the tournament’s official teaser trailer.<\/p>\n

In the 45-second clip, posted to Roland Garros’ social media channels two weeks ahead of the start of the main draw, Nadal reads a poem paired with idyllic and dramatic scenes from the Parisian Grand Slam. Tense moments to trophy lifts, with action from the men’s, women’s and wheelchair events interspersed with photos, make for a captivating package that was met with universal acclaim from fans online.<\/p>\n

“Only where love is written in capital letters, only the clay where champions fight, only the glide, the power, only the endurance until the night, only where tennis and everyone rhyme, only where hats fit all heads, only where the clay marks passion in red, only where rituals leave a trace, only a stage for courage and fire, only here where all dreams transpire, only at Roland-Garros,” Nadal says in his narration.<\/p>\n

Watch and listen to the trailer in full below, a clip which closes with a tight shot of Nadal himself standing on the\u00a0terre battue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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