Rafael Nadal, bidding to win the French Open for the 10th time, faces 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka.
Nadal now holds a 16-3 edge over the 32-year-old Wawrinka in head-to-head meetings - including 6-1 on clay - and made it 10-for-10 in French Open finals.
Nadal continued to maintain his stranglehold over Wawrinka, against whom he now has a 16-3 win record.
Nadal, who has now won 15 grand slam titles in total, was never troubled in a one-sided final.
Nadal was forced to pull out of last year's French Open - the tournament he cherishes most - after potential career-threatening damage to his left wrist tendons.
79 - Nadal has now won all but two of the 81 matches he has played at Roland Garros in his career.
His uncle, Toni Nadal, was crying when interviewed on French television and struggled to answer questions due to emotion, wiping his eyes with his hands before composing himself. For me the nerves, the adrenaline that I feel when I play in this court is impossible to compare to another feeling.
"I don't care about the games I lost or not, or sets, these kind of things - the only thing I care is I have been playing very well during the whole event, and I was able to win all the matches", Nadal said.
It was a procession to La Decima for the King of Clay, as he saw out the second set and claimed three breaks in the third.
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Nadal continued with his relentless hitting in the third set, either scoring winners or forcing errors from Wawrinka.
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If he wins, Nadal will become only the second player, man or woman, to win 10 titles at the same major tournament.
Nadal lost only 35 games across seven matches.
While analysts assessed Nadal's history, his strokes and his long career before the match, Nadal said he didn't focus on the records.
The Spaniard's uncle and coach, Toni Nadal, presented him with the copy of La Coupe des Mousquetaires.
"For sure he's playing the best he's ever played". 'Well, for sure I was nervous this morning about the match, about the final, about playing against him. Rain meant that the final was completed on Monday which was tough on Djokovic who was a break up in the fourth set when the match was halted for the night.
The Spaniard broke Wawrinka to make it 3-2 and then went on to win the next three games.
The last time Wawrinka met Nadal at a Grand Slam final was in Australian Open final in 2014. And given how easily he won this tournament, it seems conceivable that if he stays relatively healthy he could threaten Federer's record 18 Grand Slam titles over the next few years. Thereafter it was all one-way as Nadal won five straight games and set 6-2.
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