By Chris Oddo | Sunday June 10, 2018
Keeping up with the game of tennis, by the numbers. Each day at Tennis Now we’ll give you a fresh set—without any further ado, here’s what the numbers say about La Undecima—Rafael Nadal’s astonishing 11th title at Roland Garros.
11
By winning his 11th title Nadal has tied Margaret Court for the most singles titles one at one major. Court won 11 Australian Open titles, only four came in the Open Era. Nadal has won 11 of the last 14 titles at Roland Garros.
86-2
Nadal’s lifetime record at Roland Garros. Only two men—Robin Soderling in 2009 and Novak Djokovic have defeated him on the terre battue of Paris. If you’re scoring at home, that’s a 97.72 winning percentage.
415-36
By winning Roland Garros, Nadal tacks another seven wins onto his clay record. He’s now 415-36, which leaves him with a .920 winning percentage on the clay.
11
Now that Nadal has won three different tournaments for the 11th time this spring, he’s the first player in Open Era history to do that, male or female.
6
Either Federer or Nadal has captured the last six Grand Slam titles. The have not done that as a team since winning six in a row from the 2008 French Open through 2008 Wimbledon. Their longest streak of dominance at the Slams, as a pair, comes from 2005 Roland Garros to 2007 U.S. Open—a run of 11 straight majors won by either Federer or Nadal.
Nadal and Federer have combined to win all four Slams in a single season four times (2006, 2007, 2010 and 2017). They are half way there in 2018.
17
Nadal clinches his 17th major and closes the gap with Federer to three. The Spaniard improves to 17-7 lifetime in major finals.
4
Nadal becomes the fourth man in the Open Era to have won more than two majors after turning 30. The 32-year-old has now won three majors since his thirtieth birthday and he’s behind only three players in this category (Federer, Rosewall, Laver).
48 of 53
The Big 4—Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and Murray—have now won 48 of 53 majors since the beginning of Nadal’s reign at Roland Garros in 2005. Nadal has won more than anybody else in that span.
57
Nadal claims his 57th career title on clay. No other active player has more than 13, and only three (Djokovic, 13, Federer, 11, Robredo, 11) have more than 10.
237
Nadal moved into third place on the all-time list for Grand Slam matches won and is now just seven behind Novak Djokovic. Federer leads that category with 332. Nadal owns a winning percentage of 87.45 percent at the majors, which is tops among active players.
16
Consecutive matches won by Nadal at Roland Garros. Would you best against him breaking his own personal record of 39 consecutive match wins at Roland Garros?