Nadal also became the first player in history to win five consecutive French Open titles and nine Grand Slam titles. And Djokovic, who lost, his dream of achieving a Grand Slam was shattered again.

This is the 42nd meeting between Nadal and Novak Djokovic, who has a slight 22-19 advantage, but has recently lost four games in a row against the youngster, including in the final of the Rome Masters. Last year's French Open, Xiao De lost to Nadal in the semifinals, and this year Xiao De made a comeback and aimed for the Grand Slam.

At the beginning of the match, Djokovic took the lead in serving, and Xiao De, who quickly entered the state, quickly won the first game 1-0 and successfully held serve. Nadal also played very strongly on his own serve, scoring four points in a row to level the score. Subsequently, both sides held their own serves.

In the eighth game, Nadal's errors began to mount, and the German won two break points, although Nadal saved them all. But in the third after the deuce, Xiao De finally seized the opportunity to break serve, 5-3, Xiao De entered the service game to win the set. In the ninth game, Nadal won two break points at 40-15, but the tenacious Serb won four in a row, and after holding serve hard, Xiaode took the lead 6-3.

In the second set, Nadal broke first in the sixth game, but Xiao De immediately adjusted, using the strategy of suppressing Nadal's backhand to achieve a backbreak. After winning the 8th game, the two fought to a 4-4 draw.

The two sides then exchanged serves, and Nadal took the lead 6-5 after winning the 11th game. Djokovic's form was up and down in the face of a game that could not be guaranteed, and Nadal seized the opportunity to break serve again to win the set 7-5.

In the third set, Djokovic still couldn't adjust his sluggish form, and Nadal took advantage of the victory to chase and break serve again in the second game. After holding on to the third game, Nadal took a 3-0 lead.

In the fifth game, Nadal scored a straight backhand to resolve the break crisis, and then in the seventh game, after a long deuce and struggled to hold serve, relying on an excellent and tenacious service performance, he took a 5-2 lead.

In the 8th game, in the face of the unavoidable service game, Xiao De suffered another break, and as Xiao De's return ball went out of bounds, Nadal achieved a 6-2 overtake.

In the fourth set, the two came up and held their own serves. In the 6th game, Xiao De hung the net with a stroke, and lost two points in a row with a return ball out of bounds.

However, in the seventh game, Xiao De forced two break points at 40-15, and although Nadal held one, he returned the ball out of bounds on the second break point, and after winning the next service game, Xiao De leveled the score to 4-4.

In the crucial ninth game, Nadal withstood the pressure of the split and won the serve game with a difficult serve and forehand to stabilize the situation at 5-4.

Under pressure, Djokovic double-faulted on match point on serve, and Nadal eventually won the fourth set 6-4 and won the pinnacle battle between the world number one and the world number two.

After winning this match, Nadal achieved the French Open for the ninth time and won the French Open for the fifth time in a row. And Xiao De, who lost this game, his dream of a Grand Slam was shattered again, and he also missed the best opportunity to return to the world No. 1.

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In the women's singles final, former champion and seventh seed Russian star Maria Sharapova and fourth seed and Romanian post-90s girl Halep, who reached the Grand Slam final for the first time, met in a narrow way.

Sharapova returned to her three-set queen form, winning eight points in a row to defeat her opponent 6-4, 6(5)-7, 6-4 to lift the French Open Women's Singles trophy for the second time and her fifth Grand Slam title.

This is Sharapova's third consecutive French Open final, and with previous Stuttgart and Madrid titles, the Russian has long been promoted from "Cow on Ice" to queen of clay. With rival Serena Williams out early, Sava looked like she had made it straight to the final.

However, the Russians have won three consecutive rounds of comebacks, and their fighting spirit is more amazing than their strength. Halep's rise began in the second half of last year, and this year's Australian Open reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time, and France took another two steps.

Next Monday she will definitely move up to third place in the world and continue to set a new personal best. The pair have won their previous three meetings, including a three-set comeback in Madrid this year.

Sharapova served first in the first set, and after the deuce, she made two consecutive backhand return errors to allow her opponent to break first. In the second game, the two also came to a deuce, and Halep gave away two winning points in a row to take a 2-0 lead. In the third game, Russia scored three clean winning points to complete the defense, and in the fourth game she wasted three break points before breaking back to level at 2-2.

In the sixth game, the No. 7 seed broke again with a straight backhand to overtake the score 4-2. In the ninth game, Sharapova won the set on serve, and her double fault allowed her opponent to get two break points. Halep's brilliant counter-attack allowed Sava to return the ball out of bounds and break the crucial game. The fourth seed saved the first set point in the tenth game, but returned the ball out of bounds in the second crisis to give Sharapova a 6-4 lead.

Before the second set, the world No. 1 came up and dropped four straight points to hold serve, and in the second game, she broke first after wasting two break points to make a 2-0 start. In the third game, the Russian had a half-court chance but returned to her opponent to give away a break point, and her backhand error allowed her opponent to break back. In the eighth game, Halep suffered two break points to save the hard-fought hold, and in the ninth game, the seventh seed dropped four points in a row from a 40-15 lead to give his opponent a service game.

In the tenth game, Sava played a rolling tennis ball from the second break point and was lucky to break back to 5-5. Halep broke again in the 11th game, but she lost four straight points to go to a tie-break in the second set on serve. Sharapova took a 4-2 lead and switched sides, but then she dropped back-to-back points to give away a set point 5-6, and her backhand went out of bounds to pull her opponent back into the set.

Sharapova broke first in the deciding set, but in the second game she sent two double faults in a row before being broken back. The former tournament champion saved two break points in the fourth game and held three more at 40-0 on his opponent's serve. Halep saved two points but was broken on the third.

In the eighth game, Sharapova gave a double fault on the break point, and was chased back to tie the score at 4-4. She immediately delivered a straight four-point break in the ninth game to give her own serve to the game.

After holding serve in Lovegame, Sharapova won the 2014 Women's Singles title 6-4, a match that took 182 minutes.

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