{"id":37749,"date":"2022-06-05T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rafael-nadal-looking-unbeatable-wins-14th-french-open-title\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:25:14","slug":"rafael-nadal-looking-unbeatable-wins-14th-french-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rafael-nadal-looking-unbeatable-wins-14th-french-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal, Looking Unbeatable, Wins 14th French Open Title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARIS – He fooled us again, which is, in itself, quite a feat at this stage of the game.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Rafael Nadal really means it when he talks down his chances at Roland Garros, and there was certainly no fakery involved last month when he limped and grimaced through the final set of an early-round defeat at the Italian Open and looked particularly weary of the grind and the chronic pain in his left foot.<\/p>\n

Nadal did indeed find himself in unfamiliar territory as he returned to his favorite stomping ground of Roland Garros. He was very short on clay-court matches and without any European clay-court titles this season as the tournament began.<\/p>\n

But there is no tonic quite like Parisian red clay for Nadal. And on Sunday, after working his way through a loaded top half of the draw, he was much too much, even at less than his best, for the No. 8 seed Casper Ruud in the French Open men’s final, winning 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 in a match that lasted 2 hours and 18 minutes.<\/p>\n

The victory secured Nadal his 14th men’s singles title at the tournament, extending a French Open record that looks more unbeatable with every passing spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n