5 Rafael Nadal superstitions the player is always seen doing

Arranging his bottles

Every single match he plays, without fail, Rafael Nadal will sit at his players’ bench, and every single time he will adjust the bottles a certain way. It isn’t just the bottles, with the Spanish ace not satisfied until the labels face exactly a certain way relative to each other – and to himself.

But Nadal has on various occasions denied that this is a superstition.

“I put the two bottles down at my feet, in front of my chair to my left, one neatly behind the other, diagonally aimed at the court. Some call it superstition, but it’s not. If it were superstition, why would I keep doing the same thing over and over whether I win or lose? It’s a way of placing myself in a match, ordering my surroundings to match the order I seek in my head.”