At Roland-Garros,
When we talk about Rafael Nadal to Roland, there are a whole host of figures that we can come up with to account for the unchallenged domination of the Spaniard.
In search of a 14th coronation Porte d'Auteuil, he recorded his 105th victory this Wednesday (out of 107 games), against Diego Schwartzman in the quarter-finals.
After all these years, there is still a record that the Mallorcan does not hold on his soil: that of the number of sets won in a row.
It belongs to Bjorn Borg, who had crushed the competition between 1979 and 1981. If Nadal had gone to the end by sticking only 3-0, he would have beaten him.
But leaving the second set to the Argentinian this Tuesday (6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 final score), he stopped at 36.
"Not my state of mind"
Caramba, still missed, after the series of 38 sets interrupted in 2018. For the record, it is… Schwartzman, already, who was in charge, still in the quarter-finals.
Well, it's only us that interests all that.
The interested party does not at all fixate it.
"I do not claim to come here without losing a set, it is not my state of mind, he assured after the meeting.
I'm not gonna say if I lose a set it's a disaster.
It's part of the game. We're up against the best players in the world here.
You lose all the time in sets when you're a professional tennis player, you just have to get things in hand when that happens, that's all.
"
Come on, move around.
And then Bjorn Borg, he has his statue in Roland?
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