A year ago he surpassed the great Borg for most number of french open titles and today the king of clay Rafael Nadal made history , becoming the first man ever to win a slam 8 times . He bet his fellow countrymen David Ferrer 6-3 6-2 6-3 in 2 hours and 11 Min's .
Set 1
It was very simple services games for Nadal and Ferrer , but first stop of the match came in 3rd game where David Ferrer made 3 continuous errors , that allowed Nadal to lead 2-1 . Right of in the next game , David came back with a strike forcing nadal to make errors and drawing the scoreboard 2-2 . It wasn't a perfect set from Nadal , not his best tennis there were errors from both Nadal and David Ferrer .
Stop of check Stats
Game 5 set 1
Errors Nadal :7 Ferrer 6
Nadal came slowly became better as the Spaniard broke Ferrer in the 7th game courtesy with a beautiful Backhand winner . David Ferrer being his first grand slam showed a lot of pressure on him , being subdued by the pressure he served a double fault in the 9th game which cause him the set
Nadal won the set 6-3
Stats Nadal Ferrer
First serve % 78 71
Winners 9 6
Unforced Errors 9 12
Forced Errors 8 11
Total Points Won 32 23
Set 2
It was all action again from beginning of the 2nd set as we saw Ferrer unleashing many Backhand errors and Rafa following him , Nadal some how managed to win the opening game and raced to a 3-0 lead .
Nadal had a chance to go for a double break but the determination of David didn't allow him to do so .
There were couple of stops in the match due to some protesting in the stands .
Nadal serve again was in trouble in the 5th game , Ferrer had 4 break points in this game , but Nadal all of a sudden raised his game by hitting forehand winners and backhand winners .
Some stop up Stats
Forehand winners
Game 6 , set 2 Nadal :11 Ferrer :5
Ferrer made a slight come back in the 7th game breaking Nadal with lovely timed volleys . Ferrer subsequently dropped to form 0 by serving 2 double faults and 2 huge forehand errors
Some Stats Nadal Ferrer
First serve % 58 53
Winners 15 11
Unforced Errors 10 14
Forced Errors 7 10
Total Points Won 39 28
Set 3
Nadal stepped up his game when it was most needed to , after the chase of cat and mouse of service breaks in the 3rd set , the set was evenly poised 2-2 . Ferrer started to play with more content , more determination from there on in even though he felt the near was soon enough , his tactics where more sounded and he was striking the stable backhand winners more better .
Nadal broke Ferrer serve again in the 8th game of set courtesy of some classy whipping forehand winners from Nadal and a 5th double fault from Ferrer.
It was another classy finish from Nadal as he did an unbalanced forehand winner to seal the deal and get his 8th french open title .
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