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For the first time in the Open era, a Grand Slam tournament saw the same winner in the women's (Justine Henin) and the men's singles (Rafael Nadal) three years in a row.
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It was also the first time in the Open era that the same two number one seeds made it to the final two years in a row at The French.
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Rafael Nadal is the second player to win the men's singles three years in a row at Roland Garros in the Open era, after legendary Swede Bjorn Borg (1978–1981).
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Rafael Nadal is now equal with Andy Roddick as the player who has come up against Roger Federer the most frequently in Grand Slam finals, with both having crossed his path three times. The Spaniard is the only player to have beaten Roger in a final – twice at Roland Garros. Roger beat Rafa in last year’s Wimbledon final.
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Rafael Nadal is the 4th player to have won the French Open at least 3 times
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Rafael Nadal has won more titles than anyone in 2007, with five trophies to his name (Barcelona, Monte Carlo ATP Masters Series, Rome, Indian-Wells, and Roland-Garros).
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Rafael Nadal joins Gustavo Kuerten, Ivan Lendl and Mats Wilander on 3 titles, but is still three short of Bjorn Borg’s record of six French Open triumphs.
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Rafael Nadal won seven points on the volley, compared with 21 for Federer.
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Rafael Nadal has now won eight of the 12 matches he has played against Roger Federer. That’s the best win ratio of any player on the circuit against the Swiss world number one.
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Rafael Nadal is ninth in the all-time list for the number of titles he has won on clay (17). He is equal with Andres Gomez on that figure, but still a long way short of Guillermo Vilas, who won 43 clay court titles. Rafa is only 21 years-old though…
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Roger Federer has still won 10 Grand Slam titles in 32 attempts. He is 4 short of Phil Sampras’ all-time record of 14 majors.
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Rafael Nadal’s win makes it 11 French Open titles for Spain, equalling the number of titles won by men from Australia and the United States.
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Rafael Nadal has made 4 Grand Slam finals in 13 appearances, equalling the mark set by Jimmy Connors and Mats Wilander, but not as good as John McEnroe who made 4 finals in 12 Grand Slams!
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The number of break points made by Roger Federer. Unfortunately he only took 1, compared to 4 out of 10 for Nadal.
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Rafael Nadal made it 21 straight matches won at Roland Garros, where he has never lost. He is 7 short of Bjorn Borg’s record of 28 straight matches won here at the French Open.
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Rafa won the 22nd title of his career today.
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The number of sets Nadal won straight from the 2nd set of last year’s final to the second set of this year’s final. He has fallen short of the record of 41 straight sets won by Bjorn Borg.
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For the number of unforced forehand errors made by Roger Federer, compared with 13 by Rafael Nadal.
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For the low percentage of first serves made by Roger Federer in the first set of the final against Rafael Nadal.
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Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer won the same percentage of points on their second serve.
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For the number of unforced errors made by Roger, compared to just 27 by Nadal.
99
Rafael Nadal will remain world number 2 behind Roger Federer in Monday’s new ATP rankings, for the 99th straight week.
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The number of points won by Rafael Nadal in the final, 17 more than Roger Federer (119).
176
Roger Federer will remain world number one for the 176th straight week, in Monday’s new rankings.
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The number of minutes the final lasted - 3 hours 10 minutes.
1992
The last time a player won the Australian Open and Roland Garros in the same year was in 1992.
500,000
The prize money in euros won by Roger Federer - 30,000 euros more than last year.
1,000,000
Justine Henin, who won the women’s singles on Saturday, and Rafael Nadal each won 1,000,000 euros in prize money.
