Rafa Nadal is opening his first tennis centre in Southeast Asia, and he has not put it in Bali. The Rafa Nadal Academy has confirmed that Samara Lombok, a 150-hectare coastal destination on the island’s south coast, will host the region’s first Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre when it opens in the first quarter of 2028. Four Tennis Courts, Four Padel Courts, And A Very Deliberate AddressThe centre will sit inside the Samara Sports Pavilion in the resort’s beach precinct, with four tennis courts and four padel courts. Maribel Nadal, deputy general manager of the Rafa Nadal Academy, described Lombok as a destination with enormous international potential, which is diplomatic language for getting in early. Rafa Nadal has just made it a considerably more interesting one.