731 days later, Rafa Nadal lost a set at Roland Garros. Two years have had to pass for the Manacor tennis player to give up a sleeve in his favorite tournament. In the quarterfinals of the French Grand Slam, Nadal missed the second set against Diego Schwartzman to end a streak of 36 straight sets winning in Paris. However, Nadal pulled his grip and experience to beat the Argentine (6-3, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-0) and stand in a new semi-finals at Roland Garros.
On June 9, 2019, Rafa Nadal lifted his 12th Roland Garros after beating Dominic Thiem in the final (6-3, 5-7, 6-1 and 6-1). Since that meeting, Nadal had not lost a single set at the Parisian Grand Slam. They have had to spend a total of eleven games , the majority in the Phillippe Chatrier, for the Mallorcan to lose a set again. A fact that shows the spectacular superiority of Nadal on clay, one of the greatest in the history of the sport.
Rafa Nadal and Diego Schwartzman starred in an ode to tennis at the Phillippe Chatrier on Wednesday. More than three hours in which the French public came to think that Nadal could succumb in the land of Roland Garros for the third time in his career, something that finally did not happen . New exhibition of tennis quality and claw of a tennis player who never tires of winning and once again wore his best version to leave ‘El Peque’ Schwartzman on the road.
Next Friday, Rafa Nadal will fight Novak Djokovic to stand in his fourteenth Roland Garros final. The tennis player from Manacor wants to write a new chapter in his history at Roland Garros and lift his 21st Grand Slam, which would make him the most successful man in tennis history.
