Rafael Nadal's final shot at the 2013 French Open was a typically ferocious fallaway forehand. When it landed for a winner, his momentum and emotions sent him splaying backward onto the clay he loves.

I spent parts of two summers working at the French Open during the height of Rafael Nadal’s first Roland Garros reign in 2007 and 2008. Both years, before even the first match was played, anyone who’d ...

PARIS — His words catching in his throat, Toni Nadal called it “really a miracle” that his nephew is back in the French Open final. Seriously? Miraculous? More like expected, given that Rafael Nadal ...

In one of Wimbledon's greatest upsets, an ailing Rafael Nadal was knocked out in straight sets on Monday by a player ranked 135th — the Spaniard's first loss in the opening round of a Grand Slam event ...