Rafael Nadal will be honoured with a retirement tribute at this year\u2019s French Open, tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has confirmed.<\/p>\n
The Spanish legend triumphed at Roland Garros\u00a0on a staggering 14 occasions \u2014 the all-time record for the most titles won at a single tennis tournament.<\/p>\n
Nadal<\/a>\u00a0secured the first of his 22 Grand Slam titles at the 2005 edition of Roland Garros on his debut at the Paris major.<\/p>\n The \u2018King of Clay\u2019 amassed a mind-blowing 112-4 (96.6%) record across his 19 French Open campaigns.<\/p>\n The 38-year-old made his final appearance at the tournament last year, falling to Alexander Zverev in the opening round.<\/p>\n In November 2024, Nadal brought down the curtain on his incredible career at the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga after playing his last-ever match in Spain\u2019s quarter-final loss to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n In a press conference ahead of the 2025 French Open, Mauresmo revealed a ceremony will be held to celebrate Nadal on the opening day of the event \u2014 Sunday, May 25.<\/p>\n \u201cRAFAEL NADAL TO BE HONOURED,\u201d said the official Roland Garros account in a post on X.<\/p>\n \u201cA ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 25 on Court Philippe-Chatrier, after the three matches of the day session.\u201d<\/p>\n Mauresmo did not share any further details about the Nadal tribute, but French Tennis President Gilles Moretton has already revealed it will be \u201cvery big.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere will, necessarily, be something for Rafael Nadal, a very big tribute,\u201d Moretton told Europe 1 radio in February.<\/p>\n \u201cA real tribute, very important. We are attached to it. The [Davis Cup] tribute was not really the one that we had to pay him [respect]. We were ready last year and he wasn\u2019t ready, he was still a player.<\/p>\n Rafael Nadal\u2019s 5 most successful clay court events: Roland Garros No 1, 12 Barcelona Open titles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Bjorn Borg predicts whether Carlos Alcaraz will match or surpass Rafael Nadal\u2019s achievements<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe went to see him at home, at the beginning of December, with Amelie Mauresmo to talk to him about this tribute that we will organise for him, and talked to him about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Mauresmo, a\u00a0former world No 1 and two-time major champion, has confirmed that French tennis icons\u00a0Mary Pierce and Richard Gasquet will also be celebrated at this year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cPierce: Celebration of the 25th anniversary of her Roland-Garros titles, as well as her induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame,\u201d the tournament wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cGasquet: He will play the final tournament of his career at Roland-Garros and will receive a tribute following his last match.\u201d<\/p>\n Pierce was the last French player to win a Roland Garros singles title, having triumphed in 2000. She remains the only French women\u2019s singles champion in the Open Era.<\/p>\n Richard Gasquet, a former world No 7, will retire after playing this year\u2019s French Open.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>The 11 men to win multiple Barcelona Open titles: Rafael Nadal unrivalled, Carlos Alcaraz on 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Rafael Nadal French Open ceremony confirmed as two other stars set to be celebrated\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rafael Nadal will be honoured with a retirement tribute at this year\u2019s French Open, tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has confirmed. The Spanish legend triumphed at Roland Garros\u00a0on a staggering 14 occasions \u2014 the all-time record for the most titles won at a single tennis tournament. Nadal\u00a0secured the first of his 22 Grand Slam titles at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rafael Nadal News<\/h2>\n