The third-seeded Nadal will have no lack of motivation as he attempts to win yet another Roland Garros crown. That’s it – work, relax mentally, and work the right way.“ I know what I need to work on for the next couple of weeks, and I’m going to do it. “I think I have been improving this week, but I need to keep going with that improvement, because when you improve and you’re able to do it every day for longer time, then it’s more confidence and you feel more confident and more safe and you want to do it on the next tournament. I think I can work on a couple of things that I can do a little bit better or I can keep confirming that I am on the way. So a couple of days off and then start working. Everybody knows that it’s probably the most important place in my tennis career,” he said after his win in Rome. “ is always a very special place, of course, for me. Now, he has his attention focused on Paris. While it hasn’t been a vintage clay-court season for him, he still won titles in Rome and Barcelona, beating the likes of Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas along the way. No surprise then that he has won 91% of his career matches on clay – in the Open Era the great Ivan Lendl is a distant second with 81%.Īt 34, the King of Clay has shown no signs of letting his crown slip. Nadal has won at least one title on the red dirt every year for the last 18 years, and he’s the only player ever to have won four different tournaments 10 or more times (French Open, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome). On clay in general, his record is just as staggering.
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