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Seven up? Not yet, says Nadal

Until Rafael Nadal is in the final here, which will be played a week today, the Spaniard will not listen to talk that he can win his seventh French Open title and break the record he shares with Bjorn Borg.

The world No 2 will discuss himself only as being among the favourites, putting world No 1 Novak Djokovic and former No 1 Roger Federer in the same bracket.

In public, that is.

In private, Nadal must know that he is playing some of his best tennis at the right time, on his best surface, in a place where he has lost only once – and that was when he was struggling with a knee injury.

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