Rafael Nadal has done it again. The Spanish tennis player has conquered his fourteenth Roland Garros this Sunday after beating the Norwegian Casper Ruud in the final 6-3, 6-3 and 6-0. With this victory, the Spaniard adds his twenty-second Grand Slam, two more than his pursuers Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
In economic terms, Rafa Nadal has pocketed 2.2 million euros for winning Roland Garros (the same amount for the women’s champion, Iga Swiatek). Instead, her rival, Casper Rudd, has taken 1.1 million euros. The semifinalists, Alexander Zverev and Marin Cilic will enter 600,000 euros, while, for example, Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz, who were eliminated in the quarterfinals, will take 380,000 euros.
This year, Roland Garros has increased the economic prizes by 6.8% since before the pandemic and in total distributes 43.6 million euros. Even so, these amounts are somewhat lower if we compare them with the Australian Open, where Nadal took 2.7 million euros and where the tournament distributed 67.2 million euros.
To get here, Rafa Nadal defeated Australian Jordan Thompson in the first round (2-6, 2-6 and 2-6), and Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the second round (3-6, 1-6 and 4-6 ), in the third round of the Dutch Botic van de Zandschulp (3-6, 2-6 and 4-6), in the second round of the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6 -3 and 3-6), in the quarterfinals of the Serbian Novak Djokovic (2-6, 6-4, 2-6 and 6-7) and in the semifinals of the German Alexander Zverev (7-6, 6-6), although he had to withdraw due to an ankle injury.
Rafa Nadal can boast of being the only tennis player in the world to own the Roland Garros trophy. The French organizer always delivers the title after the final, but what the players end up taking to his house is a replica. It was in 2017 when Nadal reached the tenth Roland Garros and when he was given an exact copy of the trophy.
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