#nadal au

[rafasbiscuits]

Thanks for the tag @hubillusion

✨Let’s do something fun! I wanna see the top 6 photos of your fave, these are mine! ✨

have to have a picture w roger there cause- duh.

tagging: @kingfisherprince @yoellglia @tam-is-blogging @swaggypsyduck @jcferrero @mythicalpoolnoodle @schumi-nadal @soronya @tennis-kittens @bluespring864 @bluskype @thelionsship @janesurlife @cryingforcrocodiles that I didn't tag and wants to do it!!! for any of you who I forgot to tag, just use me if you want to do it <33

#i think this isnt just sports #so put in your faves of any kind ppl #first picture because its the iconic wimby 2008 like thats my absolute fav picture ever like #ITS JUST SO ICONIC #second is because its the legendary comeback where i cried like a waterfall so any pic from aus open '22 is always a top 10 for me #third because he looks so happy and cute there with his spanish friends in olympics #fourth. young rafa. isnt it amazing how that boy who was just playing tennis and before he realises it. hes the king of clay. #i love rafa #fifth because HES SUCH A BABY WHAT IS THAT 👍 POSE ITS TOO CUTE BYE #sixth because. roger. rafa. young. and in love <3 #tag game #tennis #rafael nadal #rafa nadal #roger federer #fedal #tennis sport #sports

[zingaplanet]

Fedal being dads + kids = recipe for disaster or a vortex of cuteness 🥺

Continuation of the Match in Africa documentary clips

#them never living down the parents AU tho #STOPH MY HEART CAN'T HANDLE THIS MUCH CUTENESS #RAFA MY BOY LOOKS SO SO HAPPY 🥺🥺🥺 #mirka being a proud mum on the sideline #in the perfect world this is what they'd look like #oops sorry for the technical issues i recorded this with my shitty phone #i did my best fedal fam #fedal #tennis #roger federer #rafael nadal

[rainbowintheskyf1]

peacefully watching rafa play and suddenly being confronted with seb’s ex (teammate)

#why is he literally looking like :( this tho? #is he ​having flashbacks #mark webber #wimbledon 2022 #f1 #martian #tennis #this reminds me of my still unwritten tennis!au #martian rivalry in tennis how delicious would that be #rafa nadal #mine-post

[tennis-shenanigans]

what do you MEAN Rafa withdrew from AO WHAT!?!?!

#CAN'T WE HAVE ANYTHING????? #EVERYTHING WAS GOING WELL TODAY #AAAAAAAAAAH #i am sobbing #rafa nadal #aus open #australien open #tennis

[kingfisherprince]

The way Carlos is basically rafole's tennis child like Rafa was out there messaging him before the Wimbledon final and posting ig stories the moment he won while Novak is ready to praise and defend him at every turn it's so 🥺🥺 hope 2024 give us all the content with these three I really want more of that respectful but slightly bitter/antagonistic divorced legends sharing custody of their happy and successful child vibe

carlitos is a child of divorce just trying to make his parents proud by playing tennis sksdueufrj

no but for real! that vibe is just so funny to me, i do love the way they both talk about him with so much ... pride, lowkey? like, openly talking about how good he is and just being so nice and yeah

#the found family au we deserve?? #also lowkey i am really glad the generations are separate enough for the vibe to be 'let's enjoy this while it lasts' #instead of 'major rivalry forever' #tennis #novak djokovic #rafael nadal #the right questions #carlos alcaraz

[mooodlighting]

Have We Met Before?

While Roger was unconscious, Rafa never once held his hand. The longer he’d kept himself at a distance, the more stricken Mirka’s glances in his direction had become, but Rafa had held firm.

When the doctors said memory loss is common with head injuries this severe, it was as if Rafa already knew what would happen next.

Rafa never held Roger’s hand, so when Roger woke up and couldn’t remember his name, Rafa didn’t have to let him go.

Read on AO3

#tennis fic #fedal fic #rafael nadal #roger federer #mine #amnesia au

[ilblogdellestorie]

Djokovic e... Nadal

#aus open #djokovic #nadal #tennis #ilblogdellestorie

[welcometololaland]

roger manifesting his last professional tennis match ever as a doubles match with rafa is just so wholesome - Friday is gonna kill me

+ 1

#laver cup #this is not tennis au its just tennis #federer #nadal #doubles supremacy

[givemeausernamethanks]

Australian Open Vlog

#australia #Aus Open #ausopen23 #2023 #roger federer #Nadal #tennis #grand slam #fun #Melbourne #lune croissant #foodie #foodinstagram #YouTuber #blogger #vlogger #vlogging #Wimbledon #Eurasian #instagram #Youtube

[darionavarrini]

Rafael Nadal overcomes error-strewn performances and cramping Jack Draper at Australian OpenRafa Nadal

Rafael Nadal, who has won the French Open tournament 13 times, had difficulty in the early sets against the young Englishman Draper

Rafael Nadal, who has won the French Open tournament 13 times, had difficulty in the early sets against the young Englishman Draper. He made many unforced errors and seemed to have cramping problems. However, with his experience and determination, he was able to overcome these difficulties and win the match 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. The first set was particularly difficult for Nadal, who committed 11…

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#2023 australian open #aus open #australian open #australian open 2023 #australian open 2023 tennis #australian open highlights #australian open tennis #australian open tv #draper #grand slam #melbourne #nadal #nadal draper highlights #nadal highlights #novak djokovic #r. nadal vs. j. draper #rafael nadal #rafael nadal highlights #rafael nadal press conference #rafael nadal v jack draper #roger federer #serena williams #sport highlights #summer of tennis

[rafasbiscuits]

Rafa's talking about how he wants to name the future building in Rafa Nadal Academy based off of Roger/Fedal. tell me otherwise I won't believe you

#thats something rafa would do ngl #like cmon he literally put a picture of them and rafa was a runner up while roger was the champion of that aus open #he cant put the picture where he won because roger was crying #trust me rafas just unintentionally fruity #tennis #rafael nadal #roger federer #rafa nadal #fedal #sports

[kingfisherprince]

🗣 for the WIP ask challenge!

oh wow, thank you! i, like all of us, have way too many WIPs but! my favourite one has got to be the big 3 roadtrip fic.

a bit of backstory: the first time i checked the tennis rpf tag on ao3, i was *sure* there would be plenty of big 3 fics. instead i found [0 works]. i've wanted to write this ever since.

the premise of the fic is that roger, rafa, and novak are all in los angeles as commentators for the 2028 olympics. and once it's over, instead of going home, they take a cross-country roadtrip to new york for the us open.

it's from roger's pov and is mostly centered around post-retirement themes of losing and finding yourself, and tennis, and what it means to you now that you're no longer playing, about running away from endings until you run back into them. and about always being in each others' orbits.

i've talked too much, so i'll leave with a progress update: the first chapter is 6k right now, and will probably end up at 9 or 10k. the whole thing will have 8 chapters. here's a snippet i love:

"Do you want to go as well?"

"Go on the trip?" Novak's voice is high, eyebrows raised as well in disbelief. "You are — you are serious?" He glances at Rafa for confirmation. "He is serious?"

Rafa shrugs. "He invite me two minutes ago, how will I know?"

so, yeah. thanks for the ask, i loved getting to talk about it. if anyone wants to know more please ask! i'm in love with this fic and am always up to talk :)

#writing #work in progress #fanfic #tennis rpf #tennis #big 3 #roger federer #rafael nadal #novak djokovic #the right questions #roadtrip au #fisherkings fic #fic: route 66

[hockstuff]

i cannot fucking believe we’re getting a us open champion that’s not the big 3 and it’s not gonna be meddy like bro why did you have to lose to him

#bestie absolutely cooked it in the aus open finals and never recovered #alcaraz or ruud becoming world number one 👀 #or nadal but bestie how FUN would it be if we got alcaraz v ruud final #talk tennis with me pls #us open #tennis

[bcolfanfic]

young vets au brain dump - croz being complicated version

(disclaimer: i love croz. me making him a complicated little shit in this au should not be interpreted as character bashing. i find his journey over the course of mota fascinating and figuring out how to translate that to a different setting/different war has been a fun thought experiment for me. pls don’t jump me. messy characters make the world go round!)

him and jean met in high school. sweet babies.

then they *had* a baby a lot sooner than they were really expecting. both of em out of high school, but barley.

they love each other and do everything right but shit is hard and the military preys on people trying to make ends meet

so, well- 1+1=s 2 off to basic he goes.

ends up in afghanistan around the same time bucky and gale and all the other guys start rolling in there.

also ends up there with his bff from basic training, tech school and everything else. bubbles <3

the two of them end up bunking with demarco and douglas which is quite the right brain/left brain dynamic lol.

croz and bubbles' side of the room is snowglobes and kid pictures and demarco and douglas' side is women from magazines taped on the wall god love em.

gets along decently well with everyone but.

then bubbles dies and that's when everything really starts to go to shit.

i wrote a little about his initial fight with bucky about the IED that killed bubbles here.

they don't really make up from that.

for a long while.

croz is in a spiral about losing his best friend, bucky is starting to not do so well with the preindictment they're all in himself and they just. really set each other off.

kinda freaks everyone out bc they remember sweet baby face croz who puked a lot but now he's just different. damn war.

it gets to a point where him and bucky can't be in the same room without popping off at each other. and everyone else is having to micromanage them on top of having to do their actual jobs in war zone. (70% of the time its brady having to keep bucky away if not gale. croz's "insurance" buddies are rosie and douglas)

does end up getting involved with a girl in another unit

douglas and demarco clock it before anyone else bc he starts coming to bed at weird hours and they see him around this girl and just knowww.

pisses demarco off esp bc he had a whole Thing with finding out his girl back home cheated on him.

one night demarco decides to wait up for him to get back from wherever the fuck it is he goes with her at night and just about fucking jumps him and douglas has to pull him off (after he gets a good whack in)

it was a *loud* commotion of a fight lmfao bucky could hear it from their room and wanted to go see what was going on but gale was like noooppeee. no y' don't.

croz ends up telling jean everything. she forgives him. ("women! eliza could leave alex now for cheating on her. or not. as she wished." - vanessa nadal on eliza hamilton)

him and bucky make up during the pull out from afghanistan bc bucky just about saves his life in the chaos.

poor croz just breaks down crying/panicking about how he wants to go home. and bucky doesn't see that little shit that he's grown resentful towards, he sees that nervous pukey kid from when they first met

buttt...post war things get a little dicey again.

bc he stays in.

bagram sucked the war sucked but. he still has a family to provide for, he's not totally on the outs with the forces so he ultimately decides leaving would be more work than it's worth.

gets deployed to raf mildenhall base in england and gets to move with his wife and kiddos to england so. not a bad deal.

but there are. feelings. amongst the others about him staying in.

especially curt- who is the most "fuck all of that and the government too". getting his leg blown off fucked him up 7 ways to sunday and just completely shaped his view on it all.

the two of them get reallllly into it once when all the guys are together and it gets. ugly.

curt says a whole lot of shit about how he doesn't know how he can look at his kids knowing what they saw happen to kids overseas, what /they/ endorsed by being there. croz says its none of his business- he had his reasons for staying in, curt says name one that isn't selfish and it just. escalates. till they're both yelling and mean. croz eventually says something dumb on impulse about how he won't apologize for not letting the war radicalize him against his country and curt has to be yanked back from decking him lmfao. just another night!

if the others weren't all friends with both of em him and curt would not fuck with each other at allllll but. they love their friends more than they dislike each other so they smile and grind their teeth and *try*.

the whole thing with bucky's drinking issues brings them together because they're on the same page about that at least.

have a longgg talk when all that is going on. and it makes curt's chest hurt bc man he really has his issues with this kid but. he knows he's doing what he genuinely believes he has to, knows he only enlisted to begin with bc he felt like it was the only way he could provide for his family.

knows that all the issues he has with the guy the fuckin military is to blame for just as much if not more than croz is himself.

a more lighthearted side bar: bucky ribs him about staying in a little too- is just more lighthearted on it bc they have become more friendly since they left bagram (and get to being even better friends once they bucks have josie).

one night they're talkin when croz complains he can't do what he wants with his facial hair because of regs and bucky is like wellllll if you gotta the fuck outta there you could grow a handlebar mustache. don't let your dreams be dreams kid!

#ugh croz #love sitting inside his head #young vets au #masters of the air #harry crosby

[welcometololaland]

LOLA

YES HELLO

here, have a gif of rafa and marc lopez

#thirsty for it #rafael nadal #tennis au #tarlos

[bluespring864]

would love to hear about that western au...

thanks for this, i love chatting about the WiPs I'm neglecting 🤭

Okay, so it's probably the closest i've come so far to writing a crack fic and it came from taking this picture of Holger earlier in the year that for some reason made me imagine him nonchalantly drawing a colt (don't ask me how my mind works, i don't understand it either :D)

So i thought - hm, if Holger was in a Western he would obviously have to be the (not very bad) baddie, so Casper could be the bored and slightly inept sheriff, and... and off i went, putting all of our tennis idiots in a Wild West setting! It's a Casper POV, and he's constantly exasperated by his clever horse Don Bajas, and wondering why Señor Nadal has sent him to such a godforsaken outpost, and then someone steals sheep from the Djoker family and he suddenly has an actual case on his hands. Seeing as I am starting to put way too many tennis players into this fic it will probably get much longer than originally intended but i hope i can finish it at some point this year!

#tennis rpf #tennis fic #tennis wip #my writing #thanks again for the ask! #if you want to read the first few paragraphs i'll dm them to you :)