PARIS: It may be only the semifinals yet, but the numbers 14 and 22, record-extending features that they are, are predictably driving the discourse. It's Rafael Nadal and Roland Garros.
The French Open men's semifinals is a battle of generations - the 36-year-old birthday boy Nadal, will up against the 25-year-old Alexander Zverev, the third seed, while Norway's first-ever men's Grand semifinalist Casper Ruud, the eighth seed, will take on Croatia's Marin Cilic, who at 33, has a decade on his opponent, and more significantly is the midst of authoring a comeback to the duplicitous sands of the major leagues.
