China News Agency, Paris, June 5 (Reporter Li Yang) The men's singles final of the 2022 French Open will be held on the 5th local time. The Spanish star Nadal defeated Norway's Rude in straight sets and won the French Open men's singles for the 14th time. champion.

　　Nadal had previously fought hard for more than 4 hours in the quarterfinals to knock out Djokovic, the world's number one and the top seed in the tournament, and fought hard for three hours with the No. 3 seed and German star Zverev in the semifinals. After the second set, Zverev retired with an ankle injury, and Nadal advanced to the final.

World No. 8 Ruud became the first Norwegian player to reach a Grand Slam final by beating Croatian veteran Cilic in the semifinals to advance to the final.

　　Nadal just celebrated his 36th birthday.

He is currently suffering from a foot injury and has taken various measures to relieve the pain.

He even bluntly stated that he would rather lose the French Open final in exchange for a healthy left foot.

Rudd, 23, trained at Nadal's tennis academy, but the two have not met before in an official tournament.

When Nadal won his first French Open men's singles title at the age of 19, Ruud was only 6 years old.

　　Rudd regards Nadal as his idol, hailing him as the greatest clay court player of all time.

Nadal also praised Rudd for being "positive about his studies" and hoped his time at tennis school would help him improve.

　　The first set between Nadal and Rudd took 57 minutes that day.

Rudd got off to a bad start and made many mistakes. Nadal seized the opportunity to expand the score to 4:1.

Rudd then fought back and won two games but failed to expand the result. Nadal won the crucial ninth game and won the set 6:3.

　　In the second set, Nadal and Rudd started a confrontation, and the score reached 3:3.

After that, Rudd's state declined again, and his attack on Nadal was messed up. Nadal won 3 consecutive games and won the second set with 6:3.

In the third set, Nadal completely controlled the situation on the court and did not give Rudd any more chance. It only took 30 minutes to win 6:0 and won the final with a total score of 3:0.

The entire game took 2 hours and 18 minutes.

　　"King of Clay Clay" Nadal won his 14th French Open men's singles championship trophy with this victory, and also his 22nd Grand Slam men's singles championship.

He also became the oldest French Open men's singles champion.

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