A special look back at Rafa’s career slam and US Open win. We’ve seen bits of this in other video posts, but this seems to be a longer version. I love the old footage of him and Moya being tourists in Times Square. (And anything that includes the giggle brothers has got to be good.)

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Photo by Beth Wilson

According to the ATP site, Rafa will end the year at the #1 spot. This will be his second time to be a year ending #1.

The 24-year-old Spaniard is the ninth player in the history of the South African Airways ATP Rankings (since 1973) to finish as ATP World Tour Champion at least twice. He and rival Roger Federer are the only players since 2000 to clinch the year-end No. 1 ranking in the week after the US Open. Federer did it in 2004 and ’06.

Nadal said: “It has been an incredible season – one of my best ever, if not the best. Winning the US Open together with Roland Garros and Wimbledon, as well as the three back-to-back (ATP World Tour) Masters 1000s in Europe, was not easy. I worked very hard to get back to the top and it feels really good to know I will end the year as No.1.”

Congrats, Rafa!

Photos from the Times Square photoshoot.

Photos by Chris Trotman/Getty Images for ATP, TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images, REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, and REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

Photos by Al Bello/Getty Images, DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images, Matthew Stockman/Getty Images, REUTERS/Gary Hershorn, Nick Laham/Getty Images, TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images, Chris McGrath/Getty Images, REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque, and Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

Photos by Nick Laham/Getty Images, Clive Brunskill/Getty Images, DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images, STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images, Al Bello/Getty Images, REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, REUTERS/Gary Hershorn, Matthew Stockman/Getty Images, and TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Photo set on Zimbio.

And some nice shots on Rafa’s site.