After five months of absence for injury, Spanish, 35 years old, overthrew the Final of the Australian Open against Daniil Medvedev to win his 21st title of Grand Slam, one more than Federer and Djokovic .
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Tennis has definitively resumed its rights in Melbourne Park. In the aftermath of the Australian victory Ashleigh Barty, ending the end of forty-four years of home scarcity, Rafael Nadal came to write to the antipodes a new chapter of his legend, at age 35. Sunday, January 30, Spanish reassembled two sets to zero to win, facing Russian Daniil Medvedev (2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5), its second title to the Open from Australia – thirteen years after the first.
The doubly historical epilogue of an edition that had “started” on January 5th, with the arrival on the world’s number one world Novak Djokovic, bouched out of the country eleven days later at the end of a rocambolesque Planetary politico-sanitary sheet. The Serb saw his hopes to win a tenth title in Melbourne shown by the Australian justice and the dream of a twenty-first coronity in Grand Salem fly away with. And now Rafael Nadal has just grilled politeness at the end of an improbable scenario.
Spanish is now the only global tennis master – at least for some time – with a major that has so far refused at Roger Federer (Wimbledon 2019) and Djokovic (US Open 2021). In New York, Daniil Medvedev had prevented the world’s number one. This time, the 25-year-old Russian did not rewrite the feat, defeated after 5:24 a finale in five acts.
put to torment for two sets
For two sets, this devil of Medvedev was impossible to overflow. Its sprawling returns and the depth of its blows annihilated all aggressiveness at Nadal, put to torture despite a second round bullet. For a little bit, the public believed to see the ghost of Djokovic hanter La Rod wash Arena.
In the short background battle that he has long upgraded during his career, Nadal, 36 years in June, was lagging behind. Unlike the rest of the fortnight, his service refused to come to his rescue. The Spaniard was trying to redouble variations, trying to the volley service, exhuming from its outbreak the amortities and flops to try to saw the wading paws of the world # 2 (1.98 m), long without be rewarded.
When the left-handed had to save three Break balls at 2-3 in the e handle, his opponent thought that the case would be folded soon. But the Nadalian theorem has been satisfied for seventeen years and its first coronation in Grand Slam: when the situation is desperate, there is no one on earth to continue to believe it except him. On the side shift, the world’s n ° 5 sent a packet of snowshoes to cord and won the 3 e set in Father Courage.
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