Rafael Nadal reveals how Andy Murray trolled him after Real Madrid crashed out of Champions League

Call him, beep him, if you wanna reach him ... especially if your soccer team absolutely torched his. Rafael Nadal was recently a target of Andy Murray's dry wit when the pair's favorite teams went head-to-head in the UEFA Champions League, a story that lightened the mood after the emotional celebration of his career finished at Roland Garros.

There were several moments in which Nadal's eyes welled with tears during the unforgettable celebration of his career on Sunday at Roland Garros, including when his fellow 'Big 4' members—Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray—walked on court for part of the ceremony. Speaking to the media later, Nadal disclosed that his conversations with his former rivals usually revolve around their families and what they're up to these days ... except for a recent bit of banter with Murray, who wanted to chat up the 22-time Grand Slam winner after his beloved Arsenal club thrashed Nadal's favored Real Madrid in April.

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"My good friend Andy ... we were not in touch for a while. The day that Arsenal beat Real Madrid, when the match just finished, after one second, he text me a message, telling me ... I'm gonna read it, because it's quite good," Nadal said with a laugh.

"'Hey, Rafa, haven't spoken to you in a while. Just checking in to make sure you are OK,'" Nadal recalled. "So honestly, [it took] me like five seconds to realize what I was reading, because at the beginning, I said, 'OK, he's such a nice guy. He's asking about how I'm doing, family.'

"After five seconds, I said, 'This always British sense of humor!'"

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Though he eventually appreciated Murray's joke, Nadal eventually got the last laugh a few weeks later.

"By the way," the Spaniard concluded, "I didn't text him back when PSG [Paris Saint-Germain] beat Arsenal."

But what Nadal did say about his rivals, Murray included, mattered more.

"To\] have my three biggest rivals there in the court with me meant a lot, no? And [at the same time it's a great message for the world, I think, no, that best rivals, toughest rivalries probably in the history of our sport are able to be good colleagues, to respect each other," he said. "You don't need to hate the opponent to try to beat him with all your forces.

"And that's the message that I think we showed people, we showed the new generations, and in some way that's our legacy. The results are there, but at the same time the results are just results. Rest of the things stays."