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The Spanish Rafael Nadal, 2nd ranked ATP, won the Roland Garros tournament on Sunday, defeating Serbian Novak Djokovic, leader of the ATP ranking, in the final.
Rafael Nadal won the match with Novak Djokovic in three sets, 6-0, 6-2, 7-5, after two hours and 40 minutes.
Confirming his reputation as the “king of scum”, Rafael Nadal wins the French Open for the 13th time. In the last four years, no one else has won the competition trophy. It was also the 100th match Nadal won in Paris.
At 34, the Spaniard manages another performance: he wins the twentieth Grand Slam title and thus equals Roger Federer, the ATP ranking veteran (39 years old), who this year did not participate in the competition, undergoing knee surgery. .
As for Novak Djokovic, he remains with 17 Grand Slam titles on his record. The final lost at Roland Garros is the first loss of this year for him and the second, considering the disqualification from the US Open, following an involuntary blow from a referee.
At 34 years and 130 days, Nadal is the oldest Roland Garros champion, owned by his compatriot Andrés Gimeno, in 1972. This year he won in Paris without losing a single set. Since his first appearance in 2005, Nadal has lost just two games at Roland Garros, in 2000 to Sweden’s Robin Soederling in the round of 16, and in 2015 to Djokovic in the quarterfinals. The Iberian was declared dismissed in 2016, before the third round match. Djokovic leads in direct matches, 29-27.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
