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Rafael Nadal is aiming for his eleventh Frenh Open title, and seventeenth Grand Slam overall as action continues at Roland Garros in Paris this week.

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The Spaniard, who returned to the No. 1 ranking in May, brings a single-minded intensity to anything and everything related to tennis — even when there isn’t a tournament on the line.

WIMBJUGGLEDON CHAMPION

At Wimbledon in 2014, Nadal obliterated his previous personal best of 100-plus consecutive tennis ball bounces off the side of a racquet head in filming a promo for a French racquet company.

“We play Wimbledon or we do this forever? Ada Radwanska, you can beat me?”

— Rafael Nadal, smack talking during challenge

Aside from making some impressive ball recoveries when the count was in the mid 200s, Nadal managed, mid attempt, to serve up a smidgeon of smack talk to Poland’s top tennis pro (and wholly innocent bystander) Aga Radwanska.

TENNIS BALL KICK UPS

One can only imagine that Nadal, given his nimble feet, would have no trouble keeping pace with the tennis-ball kicking dude in the the above video. Doing both skills simultaneously might be another story…