Rafael Nadal's Secret Girlfriend!

Bad news, ladies... the Majorcan muscleman tipped to win Wimbledon is courting a 20-year-old smasher from his home town.Well honed, dark, handsome and supremely talented, tennis star Rafael Nadal has unsurprisingly amassed an adoring worldwide army of female fans.

Their passion for the Spanish player – a favourite to claim this year’s Wimbledon crown – has been fuelled by PR people who have carefully nurtured his dashing image as a footloose and single young man.Yet, as these pictures clearly illustrate, the 22-year-old star already has a very significant other in his life – a stunning dark-haired girl he once went to school with.

Twenty-year-old Maria Francisca Perello, who comes from Nadal’s home town on the holiday island of Majorca, has been dating the player for three years.But the down-to-earth beauty, whose nickname is Xisca, keeps away from the spotlight and rarely watches her boyfriend play, partly because she does not wish to distract him.

Nadal’s uncle and trainer, Toni Nadal, revealed: ‘I guess a lot of girls will be upset to know the truth.'My nephew always maintained he was single. It was a well-kept secret but actually his girlfriend is waiting for him in Majorca.’Described by friends as ‘an intelligent girl from a good local family’, Xisca is about to take her important exams in business at university in Majorca’s capital, Palma.