Unique Rafa Nadal! The 35-year-old Spaniard, despite losing 2-0 set to the excellent Daniel Medvedev, did not give up. He won the next three sets all and reached the Australian Open, for the second time in his career and first since 2009, after a shocking final that lasted almost five and a half hours!
Thus he became the first tennis player with 21 titles in Grand Slam, leaving Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer at 20. At the same time, he deprived his Russian opponent of the opportunity to take advantage of the absence of “Nole” and by winning the title to rise to the first place in the world rankings.
The 25-year-old Medvedev comfortably won the first set 6-2, managed to turn from… nowhere the second and take it again with 7-6 (7-5) after an hour and a half and everything showed that he would win the second series Grand Slam.
But almost four months before he turned 36, Nadal showed that he has inexhaustible strength and great character to “bend”. He took the third and fourth sets 6-4, reached a double match point in the fifth set to equalize 5-5 from the Russian, but immediately breaking (!) Took 7-5 the last set and the victory.
See the last point and Nadal’s celebration:
Another chapter is written ????@RafaelNadal defeats Daniil Medvedev 2-6 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 7-5 to win his second #AusOpen title in an epic lasting five hours and 24 minutes.
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????: @wwos • @espn • @eurosport • @wowowtennis #AO2022 pic.twitter.com/OlMvhlGe6r— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 30, 2022
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