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Nadal’s no good with numbers? He seeks No. 10 at French Open

PARIS (AP) Rafael Nadal acknowledged during the French Open that he’s never been all that good with numbers.

”Math,” he said, smiling as he turned his right thumb upside-down, ”was the only subject that I failed in the last year that I had the chance to go to school.”

Well, perhaps he should brush up. If Nadal beats Stan Wawrinka in the final at Roland Garros on Sunday, so much of the story would be about the statistics.

It would give Nadal his 10th French Open championship, more than any man or woman has won at any major tournament in the nearly half-century professional era.