Tennis star Rafael Nadal 'welcomes first child with wife Mery Perello’
ok.co.ukTennis pro Rafael Nadal, 36, has reportedly become a dad for the first time after his wife Mery Perello was said to have given birth to a healthy baby boy with the tennis player at a hospital in Palma on Saturday morning, 8 October.The reports first emerged in the Spanish press on Saturday, as they reported that the 21-time Grand Slam champion’s wife Mery, 34, gave birth in a private clinic in the Majorcan capital this weekend.The couple themselves have yet to make any official comment.
News of Mery’s pregnancy was only shared in June after weeks of speculation had dogged the couple after she was seen wearing more loosely fitted clothes in public, and later spotted donning a face mask at the Champions League final.
Hola! Magazine reported that Rafael and Mery's baby had been born shortly after the news was broken by Majorcan paper Diario de Mallorca.They wrote: “Both the mum and her baby, born in the 37th week of her pregnancy, are doing well.The birth took place in a private clinic on the island where Mery had to remain under observation and rest completely in the last few weeks.” Late last month Rafael's sister Mairbel Nadal had commented on the couple while leaving an event in Madrid attended by Spain’s Queen Letizia.
Representing the Rafa Nadal Foundation, she said both her brother and his wife were doing “very well”. The winner of both the 2022 Australian and French Open, Rafael previously shared his desire to have children in a 2018 interview with Hola!
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