PARIS—Rafael Nadal would probably not have played any Grand Slam other than the French Open with the chronic foot injury that needed numbing injections in Paris, the 14-time Roland Garros champion said on Monday.
The Spaniard’s 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 and put him two titles clear of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
