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This time the back of his Nike shirt escaped from the clay coating: for once,

Rafa Nadal

did not lie down on the Philippe-Chatrier court when he became the Roland Garros champion.

The celebration of the thirteenth Spanish title, of his twentieth Grand Slam, was limited to a huge smile on his knees and a couple of "Let's go!"

pushing the fists back and forth.

Perhaps it was the simplicity of his victory, perhaps the very rare circumstances of this edition that led Nadal to a simple celebration, a quick trip to the dressing room and a fairly sober ceremony.

"First of all I would like to congratulate

Novak [Djokovic]

on his great tournament. At the Australian Open he crushed me a couple of times and this is part of the game: once, one wins and another, the other. I wish him so. better in the future ", began by saying Nadal, who then received the ovation of the 1,000 spectators present in the stands, 1,000 lucky in every way.

For having seen Nadal lift another trophy in Paris and simply for having entered the facilities of the French Grand Slam.

Of the 15,000 possible tickets, only 11,100 were sold due to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus, but the second wave of the pandemic forced a raffle between them at the end of September.

Finally there were only 1,000 fans who lived the historic moment and were moved by the words of the Spanish.

"I want to send a message to the whole world before this bad moment that we are going through everything: we will get out of this, a lot of encouragement to all those who are suffering," Nadal commented that two days before, after overcoming the semifinals of the tournament, he already remembered victims of the coronavirus and even downplayed their triumphs at Roland Garros given the situation that is being experienced around the world.

A humble attitude again reminded this Sunday when asked by the matched record 20 Grand Slam those who already have it and

Roger Federer.

"Winning here means everything to me. Honestly now I don't think about the 20 Grand Slam, I don't think about having drawn with Roger, I just think that I have achieved another victory at Roland Garros. Roland Garros means a lot to me, here I have passed the best moments of my career and here I have a love story with this city and with this track ";

he finished number two in the world ranking, before the official act in which he got excited on the podium while the anthem of Spain sounded.

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