Rafael Nadal

Nadal is the only player who has competed and won against Federer in the kesimpulan of a Grand Slam on all three surfaces. This tied Margaret Court's record for singles titles at a Grand Slam event. En route to the title, Nadal dropped only one set, beating Dominic Thiem in the final in three sets. Nadal became just the fourth man in the Open Era to win three or more major titles after turning 30.
He defeated Tomáš Berdych in his first singles rubber to give the Spanish Davis Cup Team their first point in the tie. After the Spanish Davis Cup team had secured its fourth Davis Cup victory, Nadal defeated Jan Hájek in the first Davis Cup dead rubber of his career. He also ended Federer's record streak of five consecutive Wimbledon titles and 65 straight wins on grass courts.
They played the longest kesimpulan in Wimbledon history, and because of rain delays, Nadal won the fifth set 9â€"7 in near-darkness. (The 2019 final later broke the record of longest Wimbledon final. ) The match was widely lauded as the greatest Wimbledon final ever, with some tennis critics even calling it the greatest match in tennis history. Nadal played the Artois Championships at the Queen's Club in London for the second consecutive year. Nadal then won consecutive five-set matches during the third and fourth rounds of Wimbledon before being beaten by Federer in the five-set final.
Nadal ended his Grand Slam title drought when he won a 10th career French Open championship in June 2017. At the 2018 Australian Open, Nadal was forced to withdraw in the quarterfinals because of an injury, but he recovered in time to claim another French Tepat championship, which was his 17th Grand Slam title. After losing the Australian Open final in 2019, Nadal continued his dominance at Roland Garros that year by capturing his 12th career French Tepat singles championship.
He won 6 singles tournaments at this level, including 5 on clay and 1 on hard courts. Nadal has been involved in five Davis Cup titles with Spain, and currently has a 29-win streak and 29â€"1 record in singles matches at the event.
In July, Nadal won the clay court Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, which proved to be his last title of the year. He played three important tournaments during the North American summer hard court season. He was a semifinalist at the Masters Series Rogers Cup in Montreal before losing his first match at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters in Cincinnati. He was the second-seeded player at the US Open, but was defeated in the fourth round by David Ferrer. Three days after his victory in Paris, Nadal's 24-match winning streak was snapped in the first round of the grass court Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, where he lost to Alexander Waske.
This was also the first time that Nadal won two Grand Slam tournaments back-to-back. Nadal then played Federer in the final of Wimbledon for the third consecutive year, in the most anticipated match of their rivalry. Nadal entered the final on a 23-match winning streak, including his first career grass-court title at the Artois Championships staged at the Queen's Club in London prior to Wimbledon. Federer tempo won his record fifth grass-court title at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, and then reached the Wimbledon final without losing a set. Unlike their previous two Wimbledon finals, though, Federer was not the prohibitive favorite, and many analysts picked Nadal to win.

Nadal was seeded second at the 2005 US Tepat, but was upset in the third round by No. 49 James Blake in four sets. In 2002, aged 16, Nadal reached the semifinals of the Boys' Singles tournament at Wimbledon, in his first ITF junior event. In the same year, he helped Spain defeat the US in the final of the Yunior Davis Cup in his second, and final, appearance on the ITF yunior circuit. Nadal's Challenger level record in 2002 was 4â€"2 in singles with no titles. Nadal finished the year with a Futures record of 40â€"9 in singles and 10â€"9 in doubles.
He won a record 13 career French Open championships, and his total of 20 men’s singles Grand Slam titles was tied for the most in tennis history. Nadal is, along with Wilander, one of two male tennis players to win at least two Grand Slams on three different surfaces. Nadal is also, along with Agassi, one of two male tennis players to win the Olympic Gold in singles and the four Grand Slams in his career, a feat known as Career Golden Slam. In 2010, Nadal became the only male tennis player to win Grand Slams on three different surfaces the same calendar year.