Rafael Nadal loses only 6 games in opening match of his 14th Roland Garros title journey
The 13-time Roland Garros champion, Rafael Nadal never lost in the first round of the second Grand Slam of the season and that didn't change this year.
In his opening match in Paris, the 35-years-old Spaniard played against Jordan Thompson from Australia as the two met 2 years ago in Paris, but at a hard-court ATP Masters 1000 tournament. Then, Rafael Nadal triumphed without losing a set and he did the same thing also on Monday in the French capital to start his 2022 Roland Garros campaign.
World no. 5 in the ATP Rankings started with quite good performance when he hit 26 winners and despite hitting 21 unforced errors, he was very good on his serve as he faced only two breakpoints. In the first set, Nadal broke his opponent twice and got and easy 6-2 win in just 38 minutes.
Although, the 21-time Grand Slam champion broke his opponent's service three times in the second set, he got also broken once what resulted in another 6-2 win and early 2-0 lead in the match. One more set which ended 6-2 awaited the crowd in Paris as Nadal broke his opponent's serve two more times before winning 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 in two hours and four minutes.
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