French Open 2020 men's singles final: Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal – live!
11-Oct-2020 13:06:34 | Guardian
Novak Djokovic won the coin toss and elected to serve.
Most Roland Garros match wins of all time:
1. Rafael Nadal - 99-2
Djokovic and Nadal are in the hallway and preparing to enter the court. This is happening.
Q. You said on court that playing Rafa at Roland Garros is the biggest challenge in sport. Can you explain why? What do you have to do to defeat him on Sunday?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, isn’t it obvious? He won this tournament so many times that I don’t think any player has won that many times any tournament. He’s lost twice in his entire career on this court. Obviously the conditions are different than the ones that we are used to playing in May and June. I think that could be a better chance for me, obviously the ball not bouncing as high over the shoulder as he likes it usually.
Q. What’s happened in the past between you two at Roland Garros, does that mean anything, the fact that he was only one of two players to defeat you here, yet you’ve beaten him I think every time you played in a final here? What’s happened in the past? Does that have any bearing on what comes up on Sunday?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don’t think so. Different circumstances, different kind of tournament and different situation, no? I don’t know. I will let you know on Sunday. I can’t predict the future, no? The only thing I know is to play against Novak, I need to play my best. Without playing my best tennis, situation is very difficult.
Novak Djokovic after his indoor fourth round match against Karen Khachanov: “If you play later in the day with the roof closed, there’s literally no bounce at all.”
In that match, it was actually an issue for Djokovic as the ball fell easily into the tall Khachanov’s hit zone. Here, as noted, that is an advantage for him as he clearly favours indoor conditions more than Nadal.
It is raining in Paris and the roof is closing. Novak Djokovic will like this very much.
Iga and Paris. A ❤️ story.@iga_swiatek #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/1JmpybvzsA
The Djokovic-Nadal head-to-head:
29-26 overall
A tie will definitely be broken today:
Most slam titles won by a player over 30 years old:
The match-up:
The stakes are clear:
Grand Slam leaderboard:
Hello! Welcome to our coverage on day 15 of Roland Garros. It is a very important day as the final preparations for the biggest occasion of the year are underway. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will face each other in their record-extending 56th meeting with so much tennis history on the line.
After breezing into the quarter-final without dropping a set, Djokovic has since encountered plenty of trouble en route to the final. In that quarter-final, he entered the court against Pablo Carreno Busta with a neck/shoulder complaint and lost the first set before recovering to win in four. Against Stefanos Tsitsipas, he rolled to a 6-3 6-2 *5-4 and held one match before the lead crumbled and a valiant Tsitsipas took control. Djokovic lost the third and fourth sets before recovering to win 6-1 in the fifth.
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