Thirteen times crowned at Roland Garros. Neither the figure associated with bad luck, nor a planned calendar shattered by the covid-19 pandemic, nor the absence of public, or the autumn cold in Paris, made Rafa Nadal hesitate on his throne as king of clay .
Moved to October due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Parisian Grand Slam was played in unusual conditions of temperature and humidity that did not suit the Spanish tennis player’s game.
Defeated in the quarter-finals in Rome against Argentine Diego Schwartzman, Nadal entered the racket’s greatest in his own right by winning his 20th ‘Grande’ weeks later.
And he did it with an exhibition in the final against one of his staunch rivals, Serbian Novak Djokovic, whom he crushed 6-0, 6-2 and 7-5, under the retractable roof of the Philippe Chatrier court, matching the historic mark of 20 Grand Slam tournaments of the Swiss Roger Federer.
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