'The thing that matters is how you recover from a set lost.'Īt a set apiece and Schwartzman up 4-3 in the third, this is how Nadal sized things up: 'That was the moment to make it happen.'Īs if wanting something were enough to will it into existence, he won the next nine games, leaving Schwartzman muttering to himself and bouncing his racquet off the clay. Dominating the flow of the game and coming up with some ruthless shots. I mean, that's part of the game,' Nadal said. Rafael Nadal claimed his 22nd Grand Slam title and 14th at Roland Garros with a convincing 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 win over Casper Ruud 20:56 IST French Open Mens Final LIVE: Nadal holds serve to lead 5-0 in the third set Nadal seems to be cruising at the moment. Is not my mindset to come here and just thinking (losing) a set is going to be a disaster for me. 'I don't pretend to come here and not (lose) sets. That grew to 36, before Schwartzman outplayed him for a stretch.

Nadal, meanwhile, entered his quarterfinal with a 35-set run at Roland-Garros that began during the 2019 final. Novak Djokovic falls during his Roland-Garros quarter final win over Matteo Berrettini. Now comes a semifinal Friday against a familiar foe in a rematch of last year's Roland-Garros final, but a round earlier: Nadal, who is 105-2 in the clay-court tournament. 'The reaction (at) the end was just me liberating that tension that was building up for the entire match.'

I just felt under tension the entire time,' Djokovic said. 'This match had it all: falls, crowd, break. Still, the top-seeded Djokovic held on and moved on, pulling out the quarterfinal victory against No.9 Berrettini. Once two points from a straight-set victory and seemingly well on his way to a Roland-Garros semifinal showdown against Rafael Nadal, Djokovic had to deal with so much that went awry: consecutive unforced errors that gave away a tiebreaker and a face-down tumble that drew blood from his left palm. A board is displayed as play is suspended with fans being made to leave the stadium due to government curfew restrictions during the Mens Singles Quarter-Final match between Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Matteo Berrettini of Italy at Roland-Garros.

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