This match gained extra piquancy from the fact that Toni Nadal - Rafa’s uncle, mentor and former coach - has been guiding Auger Aliassime for a little over a year. He won both the previous five-setters – beating John Isner in 2011, and Djokovic, in an all-time classic, in the 2013 semi-finals – which only supports the point about his tenacity. What’s more, this was only the third time he had played a fifth and deciding set in his whole French Open career. The result means that, after 112 matches at Roland Garros, Nadal has only ever been beaten three times: by Robin Soderling in 2009, Novak Djokovic in 2016 and Djokovic again last year. He surged across the finish line by claiming eight of the last 11 points with the most sublime tennis imaginable, striking six clean winners in that little purple patch of perfection. Nadal was sluggish and out of sorts during the opening set, causing some observers to query his visit to the Stade de France on Saturday night to watch his beloved Real Madrid.īut when this match hung in the balance, heading down the home straight, Nadal lifted his level to the rarefied plane that only the very greatest champions can access. Rafael Nadal demonstrated the truth of this statement on Sunday as he produced one of his heroic comebacks, eventually wrestling the young, fit and hungry Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime to the ground after 4hr 21min of scintillating tennis.Īctually, that’s not quite true. The new Court Philippe Chatrier has a giant legend on the wall that reads “Victory belongs to the most tenacious.”
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