The Spanish Rafael Nadal enlarged his legend this Sunday by adding a new triumph at Roland Garros, the fourteenth of his career, with which he totals 22 Grand Slams and moves away two from the Serbian Novak Djokovic as the tennis player with the greatest in history.
On his favorite court, where he has achieved his greatest achievements, two days after celebrating his 36th birthday, Nadal authoritatively beat Norwegian Casper Ruud, 6-3, 6-3, 6-0, in 2 hours and 18 minutes. That’s how he jumped into the center to face one of the most unequal finals in living memory, because in front of him he had the neophyte Ruud, a student at his academy, the youngest rival he has ever faced to lift the title, a meritorious clay court tennis player who, his 23 years, round the top5 based on constancy.
Two breaks by Nadal, one by the Norwegian and in the pocket the first partial, without history, flat, to put even more face a final that was already favorable. The brass band sang pasodobles and the public was amused more by the magnitude of Nadal’s legend than by the quality of the game on the track.
Ruud calmed down a bit in the second, when he got up to 3-1, but his rebellion ended there. Nadal put the fifth and chained eleven consecutive games that left the final sentenced with the second 6-0 that he achieves in a final, after the one in 2008 against Roger Federer.
