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If Rafael Nadal is going to win Wimbledon for a third time, he'll have to do it the hard way.

Who will win the French Open? Nadal or Ferrer?...

Rafael Nadal favors more transparency in tennis drug testing even though he says the sport is clean.

You won't see a repeat of last year's final, but that doesn't mean Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic won't clash.

All those months of hard work and rehab are starting to pay off for Rafael Nadal. Yet he is still not sure what this means for the French Open.

Rafael Nadal is fretting over his troublesome left knee as he attempts to win his eighth straight Monte Carlo Masters and end a title drought dating to last year's French Open.

French Open viewer's guide.

Tennis doesn't have a lot of doping cases because it doesn't do a lot of testing. But that's only part of the problem facing a sport in which the players are more powerful than ever and able to demand pay hikes, such as the 40 percent raise that will go into effect at Wimbledon.

Eight-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal drops from No. 4 to No. 5 in the ATP rankings this week, swapping places with David Ferrer, the man he beat in the Roland Garros final.

• Greeny and Golic can't believe that David Ferrer moved ahead of Rafael Nadal in the ATP rankings even though Nadal beat Ferrer in the final of the French Open. Joaquin wonders if anything in the world of sports makes less sense than this. Lis...

What did Rafael Nadal prove by winning his eighth French Open? Everything and nothing at the same time.

From Rafael Nadal's improbable shot between his legs, to Serena Williams' blistering serves to Venus Williams' sad exit, the French Open produced memories for a lifetime.

Everything was go swimmingly for Rafael Nadal -- until a protestor disrupted play.

It came as no surprise that Rafael Nadal ruled the French Open again, but there were some shockers during the fortnight (see Federer, Roger).

With Rafael Nadal's eighth French Open title, he's now set a new standard in tennis.

Rafael Nadal's final shot at the French Open was a typically ferocious fallaway forehand, and when it landed for a winner, his momentum and emotions sent him splaying backward onto the clay he loves.