Rafael Nadal at the French Open

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal's fourteen French Open titles hold numerous records in the all-time and Open Era categories for tennis, with his longtime rival, Roger Federer, calling it "one of the greatest achievements in sport". He holds a 112–4 record at the event.

Nadal won the French Open on his tournament debut in 2005, aged 19. From 2005 to 2014, he won 9 out of 10 French Open titles, including five in a row from 2010 to 2014. From 2017 to 2022, he won a further 5 out of 6 French Open titles, claiming his last title at the age of 36. In all 14 finals, he was never taken to five sets. Across all 116 of his matches, Nadal was taken to a fifth set on only three occasions; he never lost a fifth set at the tournament. He won the French Open without losing a set on a record four occasions: in 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2020. Nadal defeated the incumbent world No. 1 singles player during eight of his championship runs (four times each against Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic). His 14 singles titles at the event are an Open Era record for any professional tennis tournament, and an all-time record for any Grand Slam tournament.

Nadal's longest match at the French Open in terms of games played, at 55 games played, was his 2013 semifinal match against Djokovic, which Nadal won by the score of 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, 6–7^(3–7), 9–7, in 4 hours and 37 minutes. However, Nadal's longest match at the French Open in terms of match time was his third round match in 2006 against Paul-Henri Mathieu, which Nadal won 5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4, in 4 hours and 53 minutes, despite only 42 games played. Mathieu won the first set in 93 minutes, and the three sets that Nadal won all lasted over an hour each.

Nadal only lost four matches at the French Open in total, to Robin Söderling in the fourth round in 2009, to Novak Djokovic in a quarterfinal in 2015 and a semifinal in 2021, and to Alexander Zverev in the first round in 2024. Nadal's win-loss record at the French Open once stood at 31–0, 70–1, 105–2 and 112–3, before finishing at 112–4.

Nadal missed playing at the French Open in three years during his career; in 2003 because of an elbow injury, in 2004 because of an ankle stress fracture injury, and in 2023 because of a psoas injury in his hip. In addition to this, Nadal was forced to pull out of the French Open in 2016 before his scheduled third round match against Marcel Granollers, due to a wrist injury that Nadal sustained during practice.

In 2021, a statue was erected at the site of the tournament, Stade Roland Garros, in honor of Nadal's achievements there.