Nadal braced for make-or-break week after French Open triumph

Chart comparing Rafael Nadal's longevity with other tennis players (between their first and last Grand Slam men's singles title in the Open Era since 1968)

Rafael Nadal won a 14th French Open with daily pain-killing injections in his troublesome left foot and will now attempt to find a permanent cure for the injury, warning his record-breaking career is on the line.

Nadal said that taking anaesthetic injections in the nerves in his foot was the only way he could have got through the French Open.