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    Rafael Nadal poses with Bar Refaeli in SI’s swimsuit issue (photos)

    By Chris Chase | Busted Racquet – Tue, Feb 14, 2012 10:53 AM EST

    (Sports Illustrated)

    Rafael Nadal will be gracing the pages of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue. The magazine, which hits newsstands on Valentine's Day, includes a spread of Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli posing with different athletes. Nadal is featured in "Bar & The Boys" along with Olympic champion Michael Phelps and NBA star Chris Paul.

    [SI's Swimsuit issue highlights Olympians | Photos: SI Swimsuit cover revealed]

    Ten pictures of Rafa and Refaeli are featured on SI's swimsuit website. The spread was shot in Montreal by famed photographer Walter Iooss Jr.

    (SI)

    Judging by the way things have gone for Nadal over the past 13 months, it's only a matter of time before we learn that Novak Djokovic did a 20-shot pictorial with Kate Upton.

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    51 comments

    • Biggpapa
      Biggpapa  •  3 months ago
      I just would thank the magazine for not including Kim Garbashian.
    • ML
      ML  •  3 months ago
      I think it would be funny if Nadal was posing with Brooklyn Decker...just sayin
      • Justin Case
        Justin Case 3 months ago
        Now you're doing the writers work.
        I can hear him write that, and let out a very Ted Knight "ooooooohhhhhhh" after writing that.
        And in the case of Mr CC here, I use the term 'writer' very loosely.
        But dat wuz funny.
      • ML
        ML 3 months ago
        Thank you, I couldn't resist.
    • hrishikesh paranjape
      hrishikesh paranjape  •  3 months ago
      Rafael with Rafaeli :D Vamos Rafa \m/
    • Y M
      Y M  •  3 months ago
      Rafa plays a rough/physical tennis, but he has a softer side as well...Take that Feliciano...:)
      • pete'sbest14
        pete'sbest14 3 months ago
        Hi Y M,
        As a long time fan of Rafa it's always nice to see the not so serious, fun, more relaxed side of this very hard working athlete.
        He really does sizzle in this shoot. Go to the APT site and check out the 'making of this photo shoot'. It's so funny as Rafa is his normal shy self, especially in a couple of photos : )
        He and Ana are close friends and I think they would make a cute couple for a photo-shoot as well. I love his 'very serious' game face, the 'sneer' : )
        Cheers!
      • Sheila G. S
        Sheila G. S 3 months ago
        I totally agree with you Pete'sbest...
      • Y M
        Y M 3 months ago
        Hi Pete'sBest, thanks for the info...Can you imagine some posters were actually thumbing us just because we were having fun with Nadal?! I really understand now why people are so nasty when posters made comment about their favs...
    • jim
      jim  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 months ago
      I stopped reading SI 25 years ago because of the garbage.
    • John Kelly
      John Kelly  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      boinggggggggggggg
    • AbdulazeezG
      AbdulazeezG  •  Kalamazoo, Michigan  •  3 months ago
      This is how the world is deceived. No human will ever have a Natural skin that shines this way.
    • Hassuneh
      Hassuneh  •  San Francisco, California  •  3 months ago
      Photoshop
    • jean k
      jean k  •  3 months ago
      Nadal is so sexy lucky girl to pose so close to that hunk of a man
    • Rabuan S
      Rabuan S  •  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  •  3 months ago
      Now we know why Nadal has lost some concentration when playing tennis.
    • Santa
      Santa  •  New Castle, Delaware  •  3 months ago
      Sorry, He is just not that good looking. Maybe these are not flattering pictures.
    • whatever
      whatever  •  Concord, New Hampshire  •  3 months ago
      Novak Djokovic might be the best tennis player on the planet right now but good-looking he is not. Nadal is gorgeous & looks like the equally gorgeous woman in his arms is a nice match (sorry, Xisca). Cannot say the same for Djokovic.
      • Sheila G. S
        Sheila G. S 3 months ago
        Ha! Ha! Ha!...You've got that right Whatever...
    • vandywisky
      vandywisky  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 months ago
      I find it difficult to understand how Kim Kardashian is a sex symbol when girls like Bar Refaeli and Kate Upton exist. Kim's booty is bigger than a European automobile.
    • Ana BeatrizN
      Ana BeatrizN  •  Cnel Dorrego, Argentina  •  3 months ago
      Chase is in love with Nadal. That is why he hates Federer. Otherwise he would not be wasting time with cheap gossip like this in the tennis section of Yahoo.
    • David
      David  •  3 months ago
      I'm 51.... no longer am a slave to desire for women.... don't give a dam about the golddiggers no mo !!!
    • CHRISH
      CHRISH  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 months ago
      Everyone E-mail Doug Farrar the editor of shutdown corner....Load up his e-mail with your dislike for Chris Chase
    • NoneYa
      NoneYa  •  3 months ago
      Not hating or anything, but this is news/ important because? What they need to start reporting is how many of thses people have STDs that can't be cured. NOW THAT's NEWS WE CAN USE. Other than that, We have real biils, Rent, and our childrens Futures to concentrate on. And for her to be posing half naked with all these diffrent athletes makes her look Pathetic and desperate, as though they/ she were trying to find the next athletes wallets to GoldDig in or The next athlete to set up, and accuse of sexual harrasement or maybe even Rape. When will our Star athletes learn?????????????????..........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Never. Why? Because, Vigina is vagina. How Pathetic
    • Sars
      Sars  •  Toronto, Canada  •  3 months ago
      Nadal looks like he has downs syndrome
    • Jan
      Jan  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      Wha is the biiiig deal she looks over used.
    • billieboy
      billieboy  •  3 months ago
      sexy Rafael , huh ?
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