Rafael Nadal Takes It Off For Armani Campaign (PHOTOS)

Forget soccer stars, both Beckham and Ronaldo -- tennis champs are where it's at.

Giorgio Armani has selected Rafael Nadal as the next athletic stud to strip for Emporio Armani underwear and Armani Jeans.

Photographed by Steven Klein, Nadal posed for both lines' fall/winter 2011 campaigns which will launch this September.

This isn't the first time the two-time Wimbledon champion has sat for the Armani cameras. In January, Nadal was joined by Megan Fox for a series of spots for the brand (although some were disappointed that his washboard abs were left out of the jeans ad).

No need to be disappointed this time around. Below, behold the wonder that is Rafael Nadal.

Rafael & Megan Fox pose for Armani:

Comments

[Karama]

02:29 AM on 08/30/2011

I hope you beat Novak, Rafa!

[latia65]

11:48 PM on 08/29/2011

I'm too sexy for my .... self!

Ohh, la la :)

[GravitonX]

06:12 PM on 08/29/2011

Now, ask him how much $$$ he made per photo;)

[pcplz]

01:40 PM on 08/29/2011

How disppointing to see Megan Fox.

[mszksg]

08:25 PM on 08/28/2011

Snausages.

[emphatico]

05:19 PM on 08/28/2011

Nadal needs to find his confidence and start playing better tennis instead of stripping all over the place.

[raleigh1997]

06:23 PM on 08/28/2011

I think he tired and hurt, I hope he snaps back next year because he's a great player.

[mercedes1947]

11:37 PM on 08/28/2011

He plays a defense game unlike Federer and the classic serve and volley players. It is hard on the legs and the endurance. I prefer to watch a defensive player like Rafa or Jimmy Connors and Agassi to a degree was a defense player. The points are longer and more exciting than serve volley end of point.

If he wants to endure however, he must redefine his game. He is to a degree having improved his serve. I love him to death. He is the most, and maybe the only, exciting player in the game now.

[GravitonX]

06:12 PM on 08/29/2011

Hey, Raleigh! :)

[NextStopWonder]

11:18 AM on 08/29/2011

Yes, he needs to find his confidence, but I have no problem with the stripping. :o)

[lisaman]

03:27 PM on 08/28/2011

Turn around, I want to see the butt he is always pullin those undies out of!

[raleigh1997]

06:17 PM on 08/28/2011

Hadn't thought about that, buy maybe!

[Judster]

10:49 AM on 08/28/2011

Nadal has a great body, but the face has been PS'd to hell. During the French Open this year, I couldn't help but notice his thinning hair that is absent from these photos.

Regardless, very nice abs!

[shrrdel]

04:09 PM on 08/28/2011

He could be bald for all I care.

[dhlep]

04:57 AM on 08/28/2011

Rafa sure has a great body but what a 'butter' face

[mercedes1947]

03:51 AM on 08/28/2011

They have so photographed him to look gay or appeal to gays...cheesy cheesecake. They took a perfect Latin and cheapened him.

http://gototennis.com/2011/01/20/photos-rafael-nadal-for-armani/

[mswete]

04:26 AM on 08/28/2011

He's Spanish, not Latin.

[mercedes1947]

07:31 AM on 08/28/2011

Sorry but he is a Latin. He is also Spanish.

"Latins" refers to different groups of people and the meaning of the word changes for where and when it is used.

The original Latins were an Italian tribe inhabiting central and south-central Italy. Through conquest by their most populous city-state, Rome, the original Latins culturally "Romanized" or "Latinized" the rest of Italy. In this way the word "Latin" ceased to mean a particular people or ethnicity. Subsequently, other regions, particularly the European ones such as Spain, Portugal and France, became lastingly culturally "Latinized" by the Roman Empire. Thus, from an early stage in its history, when used as a label for various groups of people, the term "Latin" has had purely legal and cultural meanings, not ethnic.

A millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire of which they were part, these European nations began spreading their Latin-derived languages and cultures around the world through their own empires, especially in the Americas. The meaning of the term "Latin" has thus been broadened from its ancient meaning to refer to a number of different peoples in Europe and in Latin America.

[Monako Page]

02:16 PM on 08/28/2011

HA HA HA HA. What can you say now after the reply below?

[RationalRadioJack]

10:43 AM on 08/28/2011

Do you mean..sort of what Playboy does for straight dudes?

Straight men are the cheese behind cheesecake. Remember that as you before you throw out all your stones.

[mercedes1947]

12:13 PM on 08/28/2011

Is this supposed to be some sort of sermon?

[impatient]

11:16 PM on 08/27/2011

such a beautiful man!!!!

[signgrrl]

03:40 PM on 08/28/2011

meh.

[NextStopWonder]

11:21 AM on 08/29/2011

I had the same reaction to him for years. Only within the last year or so did I start finding him attractive. Now, all I can think when I see him is "man oh man, the things I'd do to him". LOL!

[BlueZoo]

04:20 PM on 08/27/2011

I saw this and commented yesterday but I just had to come back and take another look today! He is so beautiful that it just breaks my heart that I'm too old for him!

[shrrdel]

04:07 PM on 08/28/2011

Never say never.

[alperry02]

03:14 PM on 08/27/2011

Perfection!

[LogicalMathMan]

12:58 PM on 08/27/2011

I clicked on this post to read comments from women swooning over Rafa. Regrettably, the males are acting like envious, little bitche$#%^.

[getsemaneh]

01:52 PM on 08/27/2011

hahahahahaha @LogicalMathMan...priceless....

[LogicalMathMan]

11:38 AM on 08/28/2011

LOL...thanks....woulda fanned you again.

[alperry02]

03:14 PM on 08/27/2011

Aren't they?! Nothing worse than male insecurity! lol.

[Irishtimesguy]

07:44 AM on 08/27/2011

So Armani shold be the choice of gay's worldwide now that this person is a model for them.

[seventhrama]

04:04 PM on 08/27/2011

I beg to differ – if you are assuming that a hot man does not influence women.

[oxjr]

03:14 PM on 08/28/2011

Women buy the men in their life the underwear. While single - most men (with the exception of a few metros and gay men) go back to fruit of the loom or 'shudder' generic store brand undies. It only makes sense to have hot men in pricey undies to tempt the ladies.