Casper Ruud reached his first Grand Slam final. He defeated Croatian Marin Čilić in 4 sets. Now, he will play the match for his first trophy at Roland Garros, against the excellent and experienced Rafael Nadal.
the norwegian Casper Ruud, will play the final Roland Garros, the first of his career in a Grand Slam, after defeating the Croatian Marin Čilić, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 and 6-2 in 2 hours and 55 minutes.
The young tennis player, his 23 years, will face the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who is looking for his fourteenth crown in Paris, after having overcome the semifinals due to the abandonment due to injury of the German Alexander Zverev.
A great challenge for the Norwegian, who has never played against Nadal, which has never lost a final on the clay of Paris.
The eighth racket on the circuit, has broken all its ceilings in this edition of Roland Garros, where he was in the easiest part of the table and benefited from the elimination in the round of 16 of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, fourth in the world and finalist in the last edition, which paved the way for him to the semifinals.
Against Cilic, 20 in the world, executioner of number 2 in the ranking, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, Ruud was slow to come into play and dropped the first set, before regaining the initiative.
The Norwegian ended up imposing his mastery on clay, where he is one of the tennis players with the most wins in recent seasons. Between 2020 and 2022 add 65, more than any other player, far from the second, Stéfanos Tsitsipás, who has 51.
Ruud often trains at the academy of Rafa Nadal in Mallorcaadvised by Toni Nadal, uncle of Manacorí.
The match, interrupted for a few minutes by a young man who tied himself to the net and forced the players to enter the locker room, it did not change in the final periods, in which the young tennis player dominated.
The final of the French competition is captured for the Sunday, June 5 at 09:00 a.m. in Chile.