History repeats itself almost every year since 2005. It’s only in 2009, 2015, 2016 and 2021 that another hero has seen another hero lift the Musketeers Cup. Raphael Nadal He did this for the fourteenth time on June 2, 2022. This is his 22nd Grand Slam. Adjectives have been ending for a long time, the Balearic issue is not discussed. Casper Ruud couldn’t even get the King of Paris clay out of his mouth. 6-3, 6-3 and 6-0 in a little over two hours meeting.
It was unclear whether Nadal would even reach Roland Garros when he left Foro Italico in Rome halfway through 24 days ago. Just chronic injury to his battered left foot can separate him from the turning point he has finally reached. He will go down in history in disguise to withstand the pain, the spectacle, and his lecture at a new Roland Garros.
Philippe Chatrier was challenged by Casper Ruud, a 23-year-old Norwegian tennis player who has been training at Rafa Nadal Academy since 2018. A novice in the Grand Slam final – he hadn’t even made it to the quarter-finals, in fact – the Oslo man was pushing himself to face his mentor. However, from the very beginning he felt what his fate would be. The burst of joy from the public was already a message when Nadal entered the field. Balearic banking here.
Rafa broke Ruud’s serve at the first opportunity and took advantage of the counter-break just after his disconnect with Manacorí. Two double mistakes made him a student of Carlos Moya. Nadal wasn’t there to complicate himself any more than he needed to. In the final, he broke the Norwegian serve again and maintained his leadership until the end of the match.
Conditions on the track were ideal. Although the day was cloudy in Paris, the duel had already begun with the Sun shining overhead, and the only shadow in his play was the one cast by the clouds splashing across the French sky. Without showing his highest level or optimal version against Djokovic in the quarterfinals – he needed it – knocked out the one from Manacor, from Oslo, preventing him from hitting him with his right hand and very persistent with the Scandinavian backstroke. least good hit. The sun, blowing indoors against Zverev as in the semi-finals, allowed Rafa. play with heights, directions and effects.
Nadal failed to take advantage of the three time-out balls at the start of the second set and gave up the fourth game to give Ruud a 1-3 lead. Nadal quickly stopped Casper’s reaction and cleared all the ghosts. connected five consecutive games including three breaks and repeated the marker of the first set.
He started to despair there and at Ruud because Rafa always puts another ball on the rink and the young Scandinavian no longer knew how to get his teeth into it. A few winners may land. To his misfortune, the last word of the duel was the worst that could happen. No match allowed Nadal to enter the third set. The perfect finishing touch to Nadal’s game 14.