The Nadal dynasty has already cemented itself into the history books in both tennis and football, but who’s to say there isn't room for two more Nadals on the block?

Rafael Nadal’s cousins, Toni and Joan - the teenage sons of Rafa's former coach Toni - began 2021 by making their professional tennis debuts on home soil in Manacor, prompting excited chatter that the sport might get to enjoy more inspiring court craft from a man named Nadal for many more years to come.

Here are five things you need to know about the duo…

• Joan Nadal Vives and Toni Nadal, unlike their famous cousin, are both wiry right-handers, though they each share their uncle’s fondness for brightly-coloured Babolat rackets.
  
  
• Both Toni and Joan train at their cousin’s eponymous academy, where their father, Toni, has based himself since retiring from the 20-time Grand Slam champion’s travelling coaching team in 2017.
  
  
• Both 16-year-old Joan and 18-year-old Toni recorded their first match-wins at a professional tournament this month after being handed wildcards into qualifying events at M15 Manacor on the ITF World Tennis Tour. Joan fell to Turkey’s Kuzey Cekirge on his debut last week, before following up with his first professional win this week – a 6-2 5-7 10-8 triumph over Russian Denis Klok. Toni, meanwhile, also won this week, beating Luxembourg’s Lennart Melzer 6-2 6-2 before falling to Ukrainian Oleg Prihodko in the second round. In winning on his debut, Toni mirrors the efforts of his famous cousin Rafa, who reached the third round of qualifying on his professional debut at an ITF satellite event in Spain in January 2001. The rest, as we know, is history…
  
  
• Both Joan and Toni have played just one ITF Junior tournament – each falling in the first round at J3 Manacor in February 2020.
  
  
• Joan and Toni are the latest members of the immediate Nadal family to embark on a career in professional sport. While the pair are seeking to follow in the footsteps of their famous cousin in tennis, their uncle Miguel Angel Nadal was a professional footballer, making over 200 appearances for Barcelona in the 90s and winning 62 caps for the Spanish National team.