French Open 2017: Rafael Nadal thumps Dominic Thiem in straight sets, wins with a bagel
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Updated 11/06/2017 at 18:15 GMT
Rafael Nadal made short work of semi-final opponent Dominic Thiem at the French Open, racing to a 6-3 6-4 6-0 win to seal a place in his tenth Roland Garros final.
Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates during his semi final match against Austria's Dominic Thiem
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Nadal’s astonishing record on the Philippe Chatrier court continued as he made his Austrian opponent look like the relative novice that he is, recovering from an early break to comfortably win the first set.
Thiem rallied in the second and made the Spanish veteran work hard for his 6-4 set win. But Nadal came out firing on all cylinders in the third and final set, racing to a straight-set win with a bagel.
Thiem had reached the semi-final without dropping a set and had trounced defending champion Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals, but after starting brightly in the early evening sunshine his challenge disappeared into the encroaching shadows.
Nadal, who has won all nine of his previous French Open finals, has dropped only 29 games en-route to Sunday's showpiece - surpassing his previous best of 35 in 2012.
Waiting for him in the final will be Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, who outlasted world number one Andy Murray in an epic five-setter.
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