Miguel Ángel Silvestre is a consolidated face of the national and international acting scene. But before succeeding in acting, the Valencian had tried his luck in the world of sports. Silvestre, who visits El Hormiguero tonight, has a relationship with constant physical exercise since he was 3 years old and has previously said that he maintains a routine of training 6 days a week in which he includes cardio activities such as stairs, elliptical and boxing, as well as a high-intensity weight training routine.
And before becoming a model and actor, he trained to be a high-level athlete in a specific sport: tennis. Silvestre was part of the academy of former tennis player Sergui Brugera. There he trained to be an elite tennis player. “He wanted to be the best tennis player in the world without having the greatest talent in the world,” he said, but after not getting the results he decided to abandon that path.
The actor has spoken on many occasions about his past as a tennis player, and also confessed that his father also taught him. “When I was 10 years old after losing a tennis final on court 5 of La Coma… I remember perfectly. How sad I felt every time I lost. Today I find this photo in the living room of my house and I think: ‘I hope this year to relativize things a little more,'” he wrote in one of his publications.
In April 2011, Silvestre also shared a track with one of his idols, Rafa Nadal, for the solidarity initiative Pon un contra al sol, which raised funds against skin cancer. At that time it was said that Miguel Ángel Silvestre was one of the most skilled guest actors in this sport, encouraged from the stands by his then-girlfriend Blanca Suárez.
Among the anecdotes he has told, the dream of tennis also ended because at the age of 19 he went to a nightclub in Valencia and returned with a check for 200 euros as payment for modeling. “I had never had a drop of alcohol in my life, because I was very disciplined, and at 19 I started going out hard. In a nightclub in Valencia called El Cel they offered me to participate in a parade and I won,” he explained. After this, in 2002 he was crowned Mister Castellón and then began his meteoric career.
