Melbourne. Former world primary Rafael Nadal made a robust comeback from a two-set loss to beat Daniil Medvedev to win the Australian Open tennis event title and turn out to be the primary participant on the planet to win 21 males’s singles Grand Slam titles. Spain’s 35-year-old Nadal additionally holds the document for many Grand Slam titles in males’s singles with 21. The closing between Nadal and Medvedev ended within the early hours (Australian time) on Monday. Sixth seed Nadal misplaced the primary two units to beat second seed Medvedev of Russia 2-6, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 in a match that lasted 5 hours and 24 minutes. In the fifth and deciding set, when Nadal was serving at 5-4 to win the championship, Medvedev broke his serve. However, he made no such mistake on his subsequent serve.

It is the second longest-running closing of the Australian Open. Earlier in 2012, Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated Nadal in 5 hours and 53 minutes in a five-set match. Nadal now holds yet another Grand Slam title than Roger Federer and Djokovic. Before the Australian Open, all three had the identical document of 20 Grand Slam titles. During the ultimate, play got here to a halt within the second set, which lasted 84 minutes, when a protester got here on the court docket. Nadal turned solely the fourth male participant in tennis historical past to win all 4 Grand Slam titles at the very least twice.

Nadal informed the viewers on the Road Laver Arena at 1:30 pm, “Good evening. No, good morning” Australia legend Rod Laver was current on the stand throughout the match and was saving these recollections on his smartphone. Nadal received his first Australian Open title in 2009 however misplaced 4 finals at Melbourne Park. On Sunday, the Spaniard defeated US Open champion Medvedev to win his second Australian Open title.

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Nadal registered his twenty first victory in 29 main finals. Federer and Djokovic have performed in the identical 31 Grand Slam finals and received the identical 20 titles. This victory of Nadal can be spectacular as a result of he reached Australia within the second half of 2021 after taking part in simply two matches. The Spaniard missed a lot of the second half of 2021 because of a power leg damage. His damage will be handled nevertheless it won’t heal utterly. He was additionally contaminated with Kovid-19.

Nadal mentioned, “One of probably the most emotional matches of my tennis profession. It was an incredible match for me. To be trustworthy, a month and a half in the past, I did not even know if I might be capable to play on the tour once more. There is little question that these have in all probability been probably the most emotional months of my tennis profession. The assist I’ve acquired within the final three weeks will stay in my coronary heart for the remainder of my life.

Medvedev was difficult to turn out to be the primary male participant within the Open period to win the following Grand Slam title after profitable his first Grand Slam title. Medvedev has now turn out to be solely the second participant after Andy Murray to lose his subsequent Grand Slam closing after profitable his first Grand Slam title.

This is just the fourth time that Nadal has received a best-of-five set after getting back from two units down. He final achieved this feat within the fourth spherical of Wimbledon in 2007 in opposition to Mikhail Youzhny. Nadal is the primary participant since Roy Emerson in 1965 to win the Australian Open closing after shedding the primary two units.