It's his second straight Roland-Garros title and extends his winning streak on Parisian clay to 16; his last loss at the tournament came in the 2015 quarter-finals to Novak Djokovic.
Many expected this match to be an absorbing, evenly-matched affair.
Yet Nadal began the match dialled in, scoring an early break against a tentative Thiem to open a 2-0 lead. The Austrian settled, and, much to the delight of the capacity crowd, broke back and eventually levelled scores at 2-2.
The remainder of the first set was a competitive, physical slug-fest until then 10th game when, trailing 4-5, Thiem sprayed errors and surrendered serve at love.
With the first set in his pocket, Nadal played even more purposefully and relentlessly, peppering Thiem's one-handed backhand and breaking serve en route to a 3-0 lead.
Thiem was unable to claw it back, and in less than two hours, the Austrian trailed two sets to love.
With the sun emerging, Nadal continued to thrive, while Thiem immediately went down 0-40 in his first service game of the third and looked increasingly disheartened.
While he fought gamely and escaped for a hold at 1-0, Nadal promptly broke in the third game.
Then, in the fourth game, leading 30-0, Nadal served a fault and marched straight to his court-side seat, calling for the trainer. After flexing the middle finger on his left hand and having his left wrist taping removed, he proceeded to double fault, but held serve for a 3-1 lead.
Apparently unhampered, Nadal proceeded to complete victory in two hours and 42 minutes.
With his Roland-Garros and US Open titles in 2017, Nadal has now won three of the past five Grand Slam tournaments, and remains at world No.1.
More to follow ...
On Sunday at the  stadium in Paris, the "King of " Rafael Nadal defeated Austrian tennis player  6–4 6–3 6–2 to claim his eleventh French Open title at the Philippe-Chatrier Court. Defending champion Nadal became the second athlete to win a particular  event on eleven occasions, the first being  at the Australian Open.

24-year-old Dominic Thiem was playing his first ever Grand Slam final while Nadal, who won his first French Open title in 2005 at the age of nineteen, had never lost a French Open final.

Thiem won the toss, choosing to receive the service. In the set lasting just over the one-hour mark, Thiem served two aces. The Austrian missed all four chances to win any of the , while Nadal won three out of four net points. Thiem committed three double faults in the set. In the second set, Thiem served three aces and committed just one double fault. Nadal won all but one net points in the second set lasting for 53 minutes. In the last set, Nadal  Thiem's serve twice, and won all five net points in the set. The match lasted for two hours and 42 minutes.

Just like last year, Nadal did not drop a single set in the final. Last year, Nadal defeated Stan Wawrinka 6–2 6–3 6–1 in the final to win his tenth French Open. Nadal extended his record at the French Open to 86–2, losing just two matches in fourteen seasons on the French soil.

After the match, Nadal said, "It's amazing, I can't describe my feelings because it's not even a dream to win here eleven times. It's impossible to think something like this." Former French Open winner , the first player to win the French Open in the open era, presented the awards. Rosewall said, "Words can't express what we feel for Rafa's game and what he's done for the game on a worldwide basis".

With this victory, Nadal now has seventeen Grand Slam titles. Only Roger Federer has three more titles than the Spaniard. Nadal is the only athlete to win a particular Grand Slam on eleven occasions in the open era.



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