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Rafael Nadal, owner of a record 14 French Open championships, was honored at Roland Garros on Sunday, the first day of the calendar's second Grand Slam.
Rafael Nadal is content in retirement. He says he hasn't swung a tennis racket in the six months since the final match of his remarkable career.
Retired star Rafael Nadal honored at French Open with "Merci Rafa" shirts and presence of rivals Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
Nadal, a 14-time Roland Garros champion whose record may never be surpassed, was honored by tennis rivals Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.
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Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have shown up at the French Open to participate in a ceremony honoring 14-time tournament champion Rafael Nadal.
Last year's French Open runner-up Jasmine Paolini gave a touch to Rafael Nadal's footprint on Court Phlippe Chatrier before racing into the third round with a 6-3 6-3 victory against Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic on Wednesday.
Roland Garros is integral to Świątek's tennis self. So far in her title defense, she has looked much more like it.
Rafa won the French Open an incredible 14 times and is inarguably the most dominant player the world has ever seen on clay. Tennis is strange in that sense in that there are multiple surfaces that players are asked to thrive on,
French Open organisers handed out 10,000 brick-red T-shirts for Sunday's tribute to 14-times Roland Garros champion Rafael Nadal on Monday and while most people took the souvenir home, several tried to sell them online for up to 500 euros.