Nadal Talks Life After Wedding

How does Rafael Nadal follow-up his walk down the aisle?Sprinting through the stretch run of the season.More: Kyrgios and Ruud Are FeudingThe US Open champion wed longtime girlfriend Maria Francisca "Xisca" Perello on October 19th in the couple's native Mallorca in what he called "a beautiful day."The honeymoon will have to wait.Next week, Nadal will play for a record-extending 36th Masters 1000 title at the Rolex Paris Masters, a tournament he has yet to win, as he aims to lock down the year-end No. 1 ranking for a fifth time.

"The wedding is fast and I think we enjoy it a lot this beautiful day," Nadal told the media in Kazakhstan prior to his charity exhibition vs. Novak Djokovic. "We have a lot of fun and we enjoy this day with people that we wanted. We had a great day."It's something that we have been preparing for such a long time. But it's gone now is the moment to come back to the end of the season of tennis."Both 19-time Grand Slam champion Nadal and 16-time major title holder Djokovic split the Slam spoils this season to move closer to 20-time Grand Slam king Roger Federer.All three iconic champions are scheduled to play Paris next week before the season-ending ATP Finals in London's O2 Arena.Nadal out-dueled Djokovic 6-3, 3-6, 11-9 in their charity exhibition match on Thursday in Kazakhstan's Barys Arena.The king clay said he takes pride partnering Djokovic in charitable causes as the pair try to pay it forward. "It's good to be back playing for charity and I'm super happy to share this moment with Novak and we are doing a couple of things together for our foundations," Nadal said. "It's always great that we give back in some way at some point to the kids all of the things that life has given to us."We are super-fortunate people for all the things that this world gives to us. So in some way to have this kind of events to help other people and at the same time to give some example to the community is something I'm proud of and I'm sure Novak is too."Photo credit: Rafael Nadal Foundation ]]>