Rafael Nadal found young love Mery Francisca “Xisca” Perelló – and the two have been together ever since.
The duo, who started dating when they were teenagers, got engaged in May 2018 and married less than a year later at La Fortazleza in Mallorca, Spain, in October 2019. The newlyweds reportedly celebrated their nuptials with more than 350 people in attendance. including the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I.
The couple were married for just over two years before Nadal revealed they would soon be a family of three.
“If everything goes well, I will become a father,” he said at a press conference in June 2022. “I am not used to talking about my private life. We live more peacefully with a lower profile. I don’t expect it to change my life much.”
The lovebirds welcomed their first child, a son, in October 2022.
Keep scrolling to relive Nadal and Perelló’s entire relationship timeline: