kateryna kozlova won this year's french open tennis.
kateryna kozlova won this year's french open tennis.
who won this year's french open tennis?
kateryna kozlova
nadal’s success does not hold strictly to the clay courts. over the course of his career, he has won 400+ hard court matches as well as 400+ clay court matches. he is the only player, regardless of gender, to have recorded 400+ match wins on both hard and clay courts. he has achieved considerable success on hard courts and grass courts, obtaining multiple grand slams outside of the french open having won 1 australian open (hard), 2 wimbledon (grass), and 3 us open (hard) titles. this fact sets him apart from the other career grand slam winners as none of them have won multiple slams on clay, hard, and grass courts (federer, djokovic, and agassi each only have 1 clay slam & laver never played on hard courts). furthermore, nadal is the second spaniard to win wimbledon, and in 2008 he became only the third player in the open era, after rod laver in 1969 & bjorn biorg in 1980, to win the french open and wimbledon crowns in the same year, also known as the "channel slam", which he would repeat in 2010 (federer would join the club in 2009). nadal is the first spaniard to win the australian open and the first male player in the open era to simultaneously hold grand slams on clay, grass and hard courts which he has achieved three times (french open 2008-wimbledon 2008-australian open 2009, french open 2010-wimbledon 2010-us open 2010, and wimbledon 2010-us open 2010-french open 2011) federer joined the club twice (us open 2008-french open 2009-wimbledon 2009 and french open 2009-wimbledon 2009-australian open 2010) djokovic also joined the club once (wimbledon 2015-us open 2015-australian open 2016-french open 2016). nadal is the only male player in tennis history to win the french open and the us open in the same calendar year three times (2010, 2013, 2017). nadal won the olympic gold medal in singles in beijing (2008) on hard courts (defeating novak djokovic in the semi-finals), the olympic gold medal in men's doubles in rio de janeiro (2016), and has won 9 masters 1000 titles [spread out over four different tournaments. he won 4 canada, 3 indian wells, 1 cincinnati, 1 madrid (2005)]. nadal dominated the north american hard court season in 2013, having already won the indian wells title earlier in the year, he would win his first 26 matches on hard courts by winning the canadian masters, cincinnati masters as well as the us open, thus joining patrick rafter (1998) and andy roddick (2003) in completing the "summer slam".
list of career achievements by rafael nadal
carlos fernandes (born 6 february 1936) is a retired brazilian tennis player. he had a good all-round game with excellent passing shots and moved fast around the court. fernandes had a reputation for being a charismatic ladies man. he later became a coach. he made his grand slam debut at wimbledon 1957, losing in the opening round to jorgen ulrich. at roland garros in 1958, fernandes lost in round one to pierre darmon. at wimbledon he lost in round one to butch buchholz. at 1959 french open, fernandes lost in round three to jacques brichant. at wimbledon he lost in round two to neale fraser. at french open 1960, fernandes lost in round three to bobby wilson and at wimbledon lost in round two to wolfgang stuck. at 1961 french open, fernandes achieved his best grand slam singles result by beating pierre darmon and bob hewitt before losing to jan-erik lundqvist in the quarter finals. he lost in round two of wimbledon to wilson. at roland garros 1962, fernandes lost to lundqvist in round two. at wimbledon he lost in round one to neale fraser's brother john. at 1963 french open he lost in round one to christian duxin. in round one of wimbledon he led a young arthur ashe by two sets to 0, but lost in five sets. at wimbledon 1964 he lost in round two to gene scott. an ankle injury in 1964 took its' toll and fernandes played less after that. as open tennis arrived, fernandes was reaching the end of his career. he lost in round one of 1968 french open to bernard montrenaud. at wimbledon he lost in round one to mike sangster.
carlos fernandes (tennis)