JAUME MUNAR, A STAR IN THE CHALLENGER TOUR CONSTELLATION

Born on 5 May 1997 in Santanyi, Jaume Munar feels at home at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar. The reason? Because it is his home, there is no other argument.

The son of Blai and Maria Antonia was born just a few kilometres from the hometown where a world tennis legend was already being forged. Who would have thought that they would be contemporaries and coincide in the best professional tennis tournaments in the world? His great personal relationship with Rafa and his connection with the academy were, without a doubt, a boost in his initial years within the professional circuit.

It seems like a beautiful fairy tale, but that is how beautiful the career of Jaume Munar is, one of the best talents of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar and one of those people with values based on humility and perseverance. An insatiable worker and a persistent, consistent and combative tennis player like no other.

It has been precisely the Challenger circuit that has seen him shine on countless occasions, up to nine individual titles in his showcases! From his first triumph in El Espinar in 2017 to that of San Marino in 2023, there is a string of unspeakable victories. A successful and high-level career. Very few players have nine titles on a circuit as tight and contested as the ATP Challenger Tour. In that first final, in which he already had Tomeu Salvá on his bench, he defeated a world-class player like Alex de Miñaur, in the last one Andrea Pellegrino.

It is worth savouring each of his triumphs: El Espinar (2017), Prostejov (2018), Caltanisetta (2018) Montevideo (2019) Lisbon (2020) Antalya (2021) the Marbella Challenger (2022), Perugia (2022) and San Marino just a year ago. If there is one virtue that characterises Jaume, it is consistency. Since 2017 he has not missed his date with victory. Every year he has won at least one title on the circuit. Consistency and a lot of work.

In short, Jaume Munar is a great exponent of the significance of the Challenger circuit that is being held this week at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar. You have to be a very good player to get there and a hard worker to stay there.