Rafael Nadal, whose record-extending triumph on the Paris clay earned him an all-time best 22nd men’s singles major with a 6-3 6-3 6-0 crushing of Norway’s Casper Ruud, said that it was the ‘most unexpected’ of his French Open title.

Rafael Nadal, whose record-extending triumph on the Paris clay earned him an all-time best 22nd men’s singles major with a 6-3 6-3 6-0 crushing of Norway’s Casper Ruud, said that it was the ‘most unexpected’ of his French Open title.