a 19-year-old Spanish tennis player named Rafael Nadal won the French Open for the first time, at the first attempt. By the time his career ended almost two decades later, Nadal had amassed 14 ...

At the end, all of us ... Rafael Nadal, with his son Rafa junior in his arms, greets the spectators at the end of a ceremony honoring his career on Court Philippe-Chatrier during the French Open ...

Nadal earned 14 French Open titles in his decadeslong ... Chatrier clay -- which read, "MERCI RAFA." The tennis icon at one point brought his son Rafael Jr. down onto the court with him, holding ...

The shirts matched the color of the clay courts that Rafael Nadal ... was to see his son, Rafa, Jr. hang out with his “tennis uncles.” “I am discovering,” said Nadal, who turns 39 next ...

STEVE TIGNOR: My first thought on Rafa ... within tennis and beyond. Prior to Nadal, the case could be made that Roland Garros was slightly less important than Wimbledon and the US Open.

Tennis icons were quick to hail champion Carlos Alcaraz and runner-up Jannik Sinner after their historic French Open final.

Novak Djokovic’s meeting with Andy Murray at Rafael Nadal’s ... my team and for us to give a shot to this player/coach relationship was really an incredible thing for tennis and for both ...

Few athletes have become more synonymous with a single event than Rafael Nadal and the French Open. The Spaniard won ... The 38-year-old, who retired from tennis last year, was honored during ...

As his tennis contemporaries ... at the French Open, Djokovic -- along with Roger Federer and Andy Murray -- was a part of the ceremony celebrating Roland-Garros legend Rafael Nadal on Sunday.

Alcaraz had spent his whole childhood idolizing Rafael Nadal. To face the legendary Spaniard ... while Moyá’s team – which features 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem, as well as former ...