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Rafael Nadal becomes the oldest man to win the French Open title as he defeats Casper Ruud 6oo-3, 6-3, 6-0.
Nadal played in his 14th Roland Garros final on Sunday and 30th overall at the Grand Slams.
He delivered a record-extending 22nd major and fourteenth French Open, 17 years after his title winning debut in Paris.
The 36-year-od Nadal is, in any case, as amazed as anybody to have got this far.
With an ongoing left foot injury which has tormented him all through his profession erupted again in Rome last month, putting a serious question mark over him taking part in the French Open.
Regardless of his feelings of dread, Nadal has astonishingly battled his direction into Sunday’s title match.
He needed five sets and over four hours to see off Felix Auger-Aliassime in the last 16 and an additional four hours to move beyond Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals.
Alexander Zverev pushed him as far as possible for three hours in the semi-finals until a nauseating lower leg injury constrained the German world number three to stop on braces.
Nadal’s record at the French Open currently remains at 112 successes and only three losses.
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