When Rafa Nadal was very young and just starting to play tennis professionally, he didn't pay much attention to what he ate. His diet consisted mainly of pasta, steaks, ravioli, and noodles.

Off the sandy shore of Cancun's Mediterranean coastline, Rafa Nadal has stamped out a tennis paradise. Ever since the opening of the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca, Spain, in 2016, Nadal has taken ...