Led two sets to zero, Spanish spilled the match, to beat the Russian Daniil Medvedev into five sets, establishing a new record of major titles in front of Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.
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It is now the most titled tennis player in history. By winning the Australian Open Sunday, January 30, Rafael Nadal now holds 21 titles of the Grand Slam, a unit more than its rivals Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.
The Spaniard had to fight to arrive at this victory: Led two sets to zero, he overthrown the match to beat the Russian Daniil Medvedev in five sets (2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6- 4, 7-5).
His title also allows him to become the second player in the open era (since 1968) to win at least twice each of the four Grand Slam tournaments, after Novak Djokovic.
With 90 trophies, the number one world occupied for 209 weeks, four Cups Davis and two Olympic gold medals, in single and double, it has 35 years the most prolonged palmares, with those of Djokovic and Federer.
itself above his two victories on the lawn of Wimbledon in 2008 and 2010, especially the first, conquered in a legendary match against the Swiss champion, co-author with him from one of the most exciting species of the ‘History of sport. His Parisian triumphs, from 2005 to 2008, from 2010 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2020, were his masterpieces. No champions have never managed to win as often the same tournament of the Grand Slam. No one ever won 81 games immediately on beaten, record established between April 2005 and May 2007, nor stack 62 titles on this surface.