PARIS — Rafael Nadal pulled away to beat Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6- in the French Open ultimate on Sunday for his 14th championship at Roland Garros and 22nd Grand Slam title all round, incorporating to two information he previously owned.
Nadal’s victory came two times soon after his 36th birthday and manufactured him the oldest title winner in the history of the clay-courtroom tournament.
Ruud led 3-1 in the next set, a deficit that spurred Nadal to elevate his amount — he took the previous 11 video games.
The Spaniard’s initial triumph in Paris arrived in 2005 at age 19. No guy or woman at any time has received the singles trophy at any major event a lot more than his 14 in Paris. And no man has gained a lot more Grand Slam titles than Nadal.
He now is two forward of rivals Roger Federer, who has not played in almost a year soon after a sequence of knee operations, and Novak Djokovic, who missed the Australian Open in January for the reason that he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and misplaced to Nadal at Roland Garros.
Presented his age, and, of extra worry, the chronic discomfort in his left foot that has been an off-and-on issue for yrs, Nadal has mentioned regularly in recent times that he can never be sure whether each individual match at Court docket Philippe Chatrier may possibly be his very last.
Does not really seem to be much purpose to stop now, even though, thinking of that he navigated his way earlier 4 French Open up opponents ranked in the major 10 (No. 9 Felix Auger-Aliassime in the fourth round, No. 1 Djokovic in the quarterfinals, No. 3 Alexander Zverev — who stopped due to the fact of a foot injury — in the semifinals, and then No. 8 Ruud).
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