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The 34-year-old world number two won the final of the French Open by three unanswered sets (6-0), (6-2) and (7-5) in two hours and 41 minutes.
By winning today, Rafa equaled the number of Swiss legend Roger Federer, who has won 20 major tournaments.
This is the 56th match between Nadal and world number one Noli, and Sunday’s final was the third between the Spaniard and the Serbian at the Roland Garros stadiums after 2012 and 2014, when the Spaniard emerged victorious both times. .
This is Nadal’s thirteenth title out of 16 participating in the French championship, his favorite tournament, as well as Matador’s 100th victory at Roland Garros.
King of dirt and King of Roland Garros
Nadal won his fourth title in a row and was only beaten twice at Roland Garros, depriving Djokovic of taking his 18th Grand Slams title and second in Paris after 2016.
“Winning here means everything to me,” said Nadal, who has not lost a set in the entire French championship, after the match. “Frankly, I don’t think I have equaled Federer’s number with my 20th title, for me today is a victory at Roland Garros.”
“Roland Garros means everything to me. I spent the most important moments of my tennis career here.”
Nouli was Yemeni in repeating the result of their last match in the tournament when he outpointed his opponent in the 2015 quarterfinals, while Rafa’s only other defeat in the 2009 fourth round was against Sweden’s Robin Söderling.
This was the ninth time the two players met in the Grand Slam final, as Nadal had won five wins to four for Djokovic, the latter before the final Grand Slam final in Australia last year.
Djokovic was Yemeni to achieve his second title at Roland Garros, becoming the third player in history to be crowned at least twice in the four great titles after the Australians, Ruud Laever (between 1962 and 1969) and Roy Emerson (between 1961 and 1967).
Djokovic suffered only the second loss this year of 39 matches, while the first loss was at the hands of a referee after being excluded from the fourth round of the American Flushing Meadows as a result of directing a strong ball towards one of the lines, where his This year’s victories contributed to his achievement of the Australian Open title, the Dubai Games. And the Masters tournaments in Cincinnati and Rome, as well as the Professional League Cup, when he beat Nadal by group.
As for Nadal, this year he won his second title after Mexico’s Acapulco.
The Serbian had outscored the Spaniard in 14 of the last 18 matches that brought them together, as Nadal’s four victories were all on clay.
And now Nadal has 27 victories over the Serbian compared to 29 in the last in the history of their confrontations. He also achieved his seventh victory over “Noli” at Roland Garros in exchange for a single victory for the Serbian.
A perfect start, 6-0
Nadal started the game in a perfect way that the biggest optimists did not expect by winning, winning the first set with a resounding 6-0, breaking Serbian serve three times.
This was only the second time in the 56 matches that brought the players together in which “Rafa” won a group with a score of 6-0 over Djokovic, and the first time in the Grand Slam final in which the Serbian lost. a group without winning any set.
The latter did not hit his first serve, as he won by 27 percent of the points compared to 63 percent of the Spanish in his first serve, and although the Serbian exceeded the number of winning strikes (11-10), he committed 13 direct errors in front of only two of Nadal.
The Serbian eventually managed to win his first game in the match at the opening of the second group, but the Spaniard, appearing at his best levels, took the momentum from the first group and won five games in a row, breaking the dispatch of “Noli” that He couldn’t find solutions twice to lead 5-1 before deciding the group. 6-2.
Although “Djoko” improved his performance on his first serve in the second set, winning 56 percent of the points, he continued to make direct errors (14) compared to just 4 for Nadal, who scored 11 winning goals against the Serbian’s 14.
It was remarkable that the Spaniard was effective on his second serve, winning 75 percent of the points compared to just 38 percent for the Serbian.
After Nadal won 3-2 in the third set, breaking Novak in the fifth game, the latter managed to break the Spaniard’s serve for the first time in the match in the sixth game.
After that, each player kept his serve before the Spaniard broke his opponent in the eleventh game before the title was decided on his serve.
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