October 11, 2020 – 13:51
The Spaniard won 6-0, 6-2 and 7-5 to lift the crown for the 13th time at the French Open against the world number 1 who reached this stage with a single defeat throughout the year. Rafa equaled the 20 Grand Slam that Roger Federer has
The Spanish won his thirteenth Roland Garros today after beating Novak Djokovic 6-0, 6-2 and 7-5, in less than three hours of play, and equaled the Swiss Roger Federar as the top Grand Slam winner with 20 titles .
Rafa’s legend in Paris began 15 years ago, when he participated for the first time at Roland Garros and beat Argentine Mariano Puerta in the final, since then he maintains absolute dominance with a record of 99 wins and just two losses, a brand that speaks by itself of an athlete out of the ordinary, with a superlative competitiveness.
Nadal, 34, with a collection of 85 tournaments won in his incredible career, will be looking for his 13th. “Musketeers” trophy ‘and also to reach another transcendent mark, the 20 Grand Slam titles that the Swiss Roger Federer has, absent from the circuit until next year and in the process of recovering from a right knee injury that has been abusing for a couple of seasons.
Of course, Nadal’s mission will not be easy, as he will be facing another one like Djokovic, who won 81 titles, 18 of them Grand Slam, one only at Roland Garros, in the 2016 edition.
On his way to the final, Nadal left on the road – without giving up a single set, an impeccable statistic that he had already achieved in the 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2017 editions – the Belarusian Egor Gerasimov (83), the American Mackenzie Mc Donald (236), Italian Stefano Travaglia (74), North American Sebastian Korda (213), Italian Jannik Sinner (75) and Argentine Diego Schwartzman (14).
Serbian Djokovic, on the other hand, left on the way the Swede Mikael Ymer (80), the Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis (66), the Colombian Daniel Elahí Galán (153), the Russian Karen Khachanov (16), the Spanish Carreño Busta (18 ) and in the semifinals to the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (6).
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