Thank you all.

Thank you all for joining us in this intense duel with an exciting ending, it was a pleasure to be with you all. Goodbye !

Mr. RAFAEL NADAL ENTERS IN HISTORY

With this point Nadal is proclaimed champion of Roland Garros for the fourteenth time

3rd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3 6-0) Casper Ruud

With the rest and with a clean set and sending the ball over the line in this way, Rafael Nadal is proclaimed champion of Roland Garros

3rd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3 5-0) Casper Ruud

Good serve from the Spaniard who is only one game away from the title, he will have to do it for the rest

3rd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3 4-0) Casper Ruud

Shutout to the rest of Nadal who returns to break serve for the second time in a row

Here I leave you the point of Casper Ruud who surprised the Spanish tennis player

3rd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3 3-0) Casper Ruud

Falling Casper Ruud stays in the net and every time number 5 closes in on the title

3rd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3 2-0) Casper Ruud

The Spanish tennis player starts by breaking the serve and takes advantage of it at the start of the third set

3rd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3 1-0) Casper Ruud

Rafael Nadal starts the third set winning with serve

This is how Nadal celebrated it, one set away from his 14th Roland Garros

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 6-3) Casper Ruud

In his fourth set ball and the rest Rafael Nadal wins his second set and caresses the title in the Roland Garros final

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 5-3) Casper Ruud

Shutout by Rafael Nadal who is already one game away from winning the second set

This is how the Spanish tennis player cheated on the Norwegian

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 4-3) Casper Ruud

The former world number 1 breaks serve and wins his third game in a row

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 3-3) Casper Ruud

Rafael Nadal goalless game

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 2-3) Casper Ruud

Immediate reaction of the Spanish tennis player who breaks the service and in this game with the service in favor will seek to restore equality in the second set

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 1-3) Casper Ruud

Nadal double faults and Casper Ruud breaks serve with a clean sheet for the rest

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 1-2) Casper Ruud

The Norwegian tennis player retains his serve by winning the third game of the second set of the Roland Garros Final

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 1-1) Casper Ruud

Rafael Nadal also wins his first service game in favor of the second set

2nd set Rafael Nadal (6-3 0-1) Casper Ruud

Casper Ruud starts the second set by winning with the service in a very suffered game where he had to save two break points

END OF FIRST SET: RAFAEL NADAL WINS 6-3, THANKS TO POINTS LIKE THIS

1st set Rafael Nadal (6-3) Casper Ruud

The first set of the match is for Rafael Nadal who takes the lead

1st set Rafael Nadal (5-3) Casper Ruud

Ruud wins the serve and will have to win with the rest to be able to stay alive in this first set

1st set Rafael Nadal (5-2) Casper Ruud

Parallel from Nadal after good cushioning to stay one game away from closing the first set

The King of Spain and the Prince of Norway spectators at the Roland Garros final

1st set Rafael Nadal (4-2) Casper Ruud

Nadal misses the ball and Casper Ruud wins with serve for the first time in the Roland Garros final

1st set Rafael Nadal (4-1) Casper Ruud

Easy game of the Spanish tennis player with the service highlighted in this first set

1st set Rafael Nadal (3-1) Casper Ruud

The world number 5 breaks the serve again for the second time in a row, the Norwegian tennis player has not yet won in this match with the serve

1st set Rafael Nadal (2-1) Casper Ruud

Casper Ruud broke serve and will serve to tie the game at two in the first set

Nadal’s point for breaking serve

1st set Rafael Nadal (2-0) Casper Ruud

Crossed forehand from the Spanish tennis player who breaks the serve to take advantage of it in the first set

1st set Rafael Nadal (1-0) Casper Ruud

The first game of the final was won by Rafael Nadal with service, in a game that lasted four minutes

All ready

The draw has been decided where it has been chosen that Rafael Nadal will serve first

Both players are already on the court, that’s how they were before stepping out on the court

Casper Ruud Trail

The way of Rafael Nadal

Seven of Nadal’s eight Grand Slam final defeats have been against Djokovic or Federer.

Rafael Nadal will not face today one of his main rivals, Djokovic, who already ruled him out of this tournament in the quarter-finals. He has only lost to a rookie in a Grand Slam final once, and that was in 2014 at the Australian Open against Warinka.

Casper Ruud before his most important game

This will be Nadal’s 30th Grand Slam final.

1 hour

In about 1 hour will start the Roland Garros final, where Rafael Nadal vs Casper Ruud will be measured, both tennis players will be looking to achieve the second Grand Slam of the season, the Spanish tennis player could win his 14th Roland Garros. The preview and the minute by minute of the match can be followed here on VAVEL

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Nadal will finish number 1 of the year after Roland Garros and Ruud will rise to sixth position

tennis player will finish the French tournament as the undisputed number one this season. After the treatment he gets before the Paris games, if there’s a joint-aggressive surface, it’s grass. Wimbledon is the next big step on the calendar with a three-week margin. Although he missed the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo and Godó following a crack in the ribs which occurred during the Indian Wells semi-final with Carlos Alcaraz, the Balearic Islands have a 1000 point lead today. compared to its nearest rival which is not one. other than Alcaraz. Nadal is fourth, overtaking Stefanos Tsitsipas and he cannot improve on this position even if he wins the title. While Casper Ruud’s tennis comes from genetics. His father Christian Ruud became number 39 in the ranking. He followed in his footsteps and next Monday he will release his sixth ATP racket thanks to the Roland Garros final. Casper, who became the best in the world at a junior age, struggled to make the leap to professionalism.

How does Rafael Nadal arrive?

Only three defeats in this 2022 for Rafael Nadal who managed to win three titles this year, first the Melbourne ATP, then and most heroically, the Australian Open, after a final that will remain in the memories after the return of the Spanish tennis player against Medvedev. He also competed in the ATP in Acapulco, organized in Mexico, where on February 27, beating Norrie in the final by a double 6-4, he won the title. In the last tournament Nadal participated in, namely the ATP in Miami, he fell in the final against Fritz, so he returns to competition more than a month later after having to be absent due to an injury. At the Madrid Open, playing at home and with good feelings, he was looking to win the title, but his compatriot Carlos Alcaraz left him out in the quarter-finals. Before playing the Grand Slam, he was defending the crown at the ATP in Rome but the discomfort in the round of 16 against Shapavalov deprived him of advancing in the Italian tournament despite winning the first set 6-1. In the first round at Roland Garros, he beat the Australian Thompson in three sets and without any difficulty, neither in the second round with Moutet nor in the round of 16 against the Dutchman Van de Zandschlup. In the second round, he needed five sets to defeat Canadian Auger Aliassame. In the quarter-finals, during his 59th confrontation, he won the Serbian tennis player’s match. In the semi-finals, he qualified without finishing the match due to Zverev’s ankle injury which prevented him from finishing the match.

How does Casper Ruud arrive?

The Norwegian tennis player was already a finalist at the Miami ATP where he was beaten by Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz. He did not have good performances in Berlin or in the Mutua Madrid eliminated in the first rounds. At the ATP in Rome, he reached the semi-finals, but number 1 deprived him of reaching the final. A week later, he was proclaimed the winner of the Geneva ATP, held in Switzerland. Casper Ruud won only one match in three sets, it was in the second round. The match where he suffered the most was the round of 16 where it took him five sets to eliminate the Italian Sonego. In the semi-finals, he lost the first set against Clic, but he reversed the score to advance to the Roland Garros final.

Background

World number five and world number eight go head-to-head in search of winning the Grand Slam, but the reality is that this is the first confrontation between these two tennis players despite having met several times in training . The Spaniard and the Norwegian have yet to face each other throughout their sporting careers and are both in the final, though many surely weren’t expecting it.

Venue: The match will be played on the Philippe Chatrier track, located in the city of Paris, which was rebuilt in 2019 and has a capacity of 15,225 spectators.

match preview

Rafael Nadal and Casper Ruud will meet in the Roland Garros final, looking to win the second Grand Slam of the year, the first was for the Spanish tennis player repeating the final.

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