By winning, on Sunday April 24, 2005, the final of the Barcelona tournament against Juan Carlos Ferrero (6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-3), Rafael Nadal, who has not yet celebrated his 19th birthday nor set foot at Roland-Garros, won his ticket to the top 10 where he would land the next day in 7th place, without imagining for a moment that he would not leave for the next eighteen years and that it will quite simply spend half its life there, at the moment T.
