Rafael Nadal (5th place, Spain), 'the emperor of the clay court', advanced to the men's singles final at the French Open tennis tournament (total prize money 43.6 million euros, about 58.6 billion won).



Nadal defeated Alexander Zverev (3rd place, Germany) in the men's singles semifinal on the 13th day of the tournament held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France on the 3rd (local time).



Nadal, who won the first set with a tie-break 10-8, also entered the tie-break with a game score of 6-6 in the second set.



This made Nadal his 14th final at the French Open alone.



In the previous 13 finals, they have not lost a single victory.



Usually, when the match ends with the opponent's withdrawal, the expression 'the victory was confirmed without hard work' is an exception.



This is because 3 hours and 13 minutes had already elapsed by that time even though the match ended with less than 2 sets finished.



In the second set, there was a close battle where they rallied each other 44 times.



The semifinals between Casper Roud (8th place, Norway) and Marin Chilić (23rd place, Croatia), which were held next, ended in 2 hours and 55 minutes after playing up to 4 sets.



If Nadal, who also won this year's Australian Open, wins this tournament, he can increase the number of singles wins in the majors to 22.



This is the most record in this division, giving Nadal a chance to widen the gap with 20 innings of Novak Djokovic (No.



Federer was absent from the tournament and Djokovic was defeated by Nadal in the quarterfinals.



Also, if Nadal wins the event, he will become the oldest French Open men's singles champion, surpassing the record of Andres Jimeno (Spain), who won at the age of 34 in 1972.



Today was Nadal's 36th birthday.



The record for the oldest men's singles win in all majors was Ken Roswaal (Australia), who won the Australian Open in 1972, at the age of 37 years and 2 months.



Nadal's final opponent is Ruud.



Rude then defeated Chilić 3-1 (3-6 6-4 6-2 6-2) in the semifinals that followed.



Ruud, who is 24 this year, is 12 years younger than Nadal, and his best performance in a major event before this tournament was last year's Australian Open round of 16.



Rude, who has won the men's professional tennis (ATP) tour singles eight times, has won seven of them on clay courts such as the French Open.



This is the first time a Norwegian player has reached the singles final of a major tournament this year.



This is the first time Nadal and Rud will meet, and the final between the two will start at 10 pm on the 5th in Korea time.



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