Personal Life
Verdasco began playing tennis when he was four years old, practicing with his father on the two hard courts in the backyard of their family home. He stopped school years at the age of 11, soon after practising with his father who then took his son into the academy's hands. His parents, José and Olga, who are of Latin American descent, own a restaurant in Madrid. He has two younger sisters, Sara and Ana. Verdasco was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a child, but did not receive treatment in order to not have problems with doping. Verdasco supports Real Madrid
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