Updated On: 22 July, 2024 08:48 AM IST | Bastad (Sweden) | AFP
The Spanish tennis great had shown signs of a return to form in Scandinavia as he made an impressive run to the final, just one week before tennis at the Olympic Games gets underway on the clay in Paris

Winner Nuno Borges (left) and Rafael Nadal. Pic/AFP
Rafael Nadal lost his first final in two years on Sunday as the Spaniard went down 6-3, 6-2 to Portugal’s Nuno Borges, the World No. 51, at the clay-court Swedish Open.
The Spanish tennis great had shown signs of a return to form in Scandinavia as he made an impressive run to the final, just one week before tennis at the Olympic Games gets underway on the clay in Paris.