It appears disc jockeys in the United States aren't the only form of life that likes to resort to prank phone calls for cheap radio bit.
I guess you could call this the Belgain version of the "Howard Stern Show".
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal was awakened Monday morning by a prank call that got through the front desk to reach his hotel room.
Nadal is staying in Charleroi where he and team Spain will play Davis Cup later in the week against Belgium. Local media celebrity Maria del Rio is the offending party in this one. In the call, she tells the hotel operator that she’s Rafa’s mother, and it worked! I have to wonder if the guy at the hotel front desk currently has a job.
What is amazing to me, is Rafa really in unflapable. By putting my high school and college Spanish to good use I could tell once he realized he was getting pranked he was a pretty good sport about it and didn't get rattled. Kudos to Rafa. He probably also realizes this Belgian tie is nothing but a little warm up for the Spanish Armada that is his Davis Cup team.
Here's the video of the prank: