If it rains during the Roland Garros men’s final, Rafael Nadal says it could favor his opponent, Roger Federer. The current forecast is for a 70 percent chance of light rain on Sunday.
"For me, I prefer the sunshine always, and higher bounces," said Nadal, who owns a 11-2 record against Federer on clay, but did fall to him in wet conditions in the 2007 Hamburg final, which ended his 81-match winning streak on dirt. "So for my game is better if the ball is fast and if the bounces are higher. If the rain is there and the day is cloudy, sometimes the ball stays lower. So that's a little bit an advantage for him. But seriously, I don't have the power to control the weather, so if rain, I gonna think that is an advantage for me; if sunshine, gonna think is advantage for me. I have to think positive all the time because I cannot control that."