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Rafa Nadal's perfect 10 at Roland Garros

The Spaniard has played in 10 finals on the Parisian clay and won all 10. In 81 games at Roland Garros he has been beaten just twice, in 2009 and 2015.
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Rafa Nadal's perfect 10 at Roland Garros
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Rafa Nadal won a record-setting 10th French Open title on Sunday to become the only player in the Open Era to claim the same Grand Slam 10 times, beating Martina Navratilova's nine Wimbledon titles.

Nadal's French Open perfect 10

2005: bt Mariano Puerta (ARG) 6-7, 6-3, 6-1, 7-5

-- At just 19, Nadal became the youngest winner of a Grand Slam title since Michael Chang won at Roland Garros in 1989 at 17. He was the first man since Mats Wilander in 1982 to win the French Open on his debut. Puerta was to later fail a drugs test and handed an eight-year ban, eventually reduced to two years.

2006: bt Roger Federer (SUI) 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6

-- Nadal became the first man to beat Federer in a Slam final, ending the Swiss star's hopes of holding all four majors at the same time. It was Nadal's 60th win in a row on clay.

2007: bt Roger Federer (SUI) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

-- The 21-year-old Nadal became the first man since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win three successive titles at Roland Garros. He again also shattered Federer's hopes of becoming only the third man in history to hold all four majors.

2008: bt Roger Federer (SUI) 6-1, 6-3, 6-0

-- Nadal condemned his great rival to his worst ever loss in a Grand Slam event. The Spaniard also won the title without losing a set, becoming the third man to do so in the Open era after Ilie Nastase and Borg.

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2010: bt Robin Soderling (SWE) 6-4, 6-2, 6-4

-- Nadal avenged his defeat to the Swede at Roland Garros 12 months earlier. Again, Nadal finished the tournament without having dropped a set. He also regained the world number one ranking for the first time since July 2009.

2011: bt Roger Federer (SUI) 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-1

-- Nadal claimed his sixth French Open to equal the record of Borg, also taking his Slam total into double figures at 10. Federer had ended Novak Djokovic's 43-match undefeated run in the semi-finals.

2012: bt Novak Djokovic (SRB) 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5

-- Nadal goes past Borg's record of six titles and ends Djokovic's bid to be the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four majors. Rain meant that the final was completed on Monday which was tough on Djokovic who was a break up in the fourth set when the match was halted for the night.

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2013: bt David Ferrer (ESP) 6-3, 6-2, 6-3

-- The Spaniard comfortably beat his compatriot for an eighth French Open but the hard yards were achieved in the semi-finals when he defeated Djokovic 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7, 9-7 in a 4-hour 37-minute epic.

2014: bt Novak Djokovic (SRB) 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4

-- Title number nine in his ninth final for Nadal and his 14th and most recent Grand Slam success on an afternoon where temperatures nudged 30 degrees. It was his 45th career clay court title.

2017: bt Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 6-2, 6-3, 6-1

-- Nadal coasts to a record 10th French Open title, demolishing Wawrinka in a brutally one-sided final which also earns the Spaniard a 15th Grand Slam crown. Nadal, 31, becomes the first man in history to win the same major 10 times. It is his most convincing final win since allowing Roger Federer just four games in the 2008 final.

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