Beijing time, January 9: The first week of the 2022 Tennis Tour this evening Beijing time ended in several cities in Australia. In the singles final of the ATP250 Melbourne Summer Open, which ended at Rodrawall Stadium, 20-time Grand Slam champion Nadal defeated qualifier-qualifier Cressy 7-6, 6-3 to win the season. Nadal has also been the first in history to have a singles title on the tour for 19 consecutive seasons. In other competitions today, Barty, Halep, Anisimova, Monfils and Canada also won the championship in their respective competitions. Let's take a look at this week's event.
This week is the first week of the new season, with three ATP events and three WTA events. The ATP250 tournament in Melbourne attracted 20-time Grand Slam champion Spanish champion Nadal. It was Nadal's first appearance on the Tour since he began recuperating from injuries last August. The final top seed, Nadal, and the Qualifiers, American Cressy, met in the finals. The final began at 4:30 p.m. Beijing time today at rodrawall stadium, and after the start of the game, the two sides were caught in a fight in the first set of the game, which required the elimination of seven to divide the winners and losers. Nadal won the first set in a narrow 8-6 win in the seventh to take the lead. After entering the second set, Cressy continued to put pressure on Nadal, completing the break in the third set, and then Nadal broke the opponent's serve twice in a row to win the second set 6-3 to win the championship.
The title is Nadal's first title of the season, the 89th Tour singles title of his career and the 23rd in hard court events. Nadal has had at least one Tour singles title in history for 19 consecutive seasons since he won his first career tour title in Sopot, Poland, and today. Behind him are Djokovic's 16 years, Federer's 15 years, and Lendl's 14 years. The title is also Nadal's first singles title in the Australian season after winning the Australian Open in 2009, and after a week's break he will play at this year's Australian Open. Previously, Nadal won 1 championship and 4 runners-up in the australian open 5 times, this year he is not the favorite to win the championship, what kind of results can be achieved is still worth paying attention to.
The highest level of the week was at the WTA500 Adelaide Open in Adelaide, where the world's number one seed, Australia's Barty, swept 7-seeded Kazakh Legina 6-3, 6-2 in today's singles final. It was Barty's first title of the season and the 14th singles title of his career. Barty has reached the world number one in the world since reaching the top of the world on June 24, 2019, and has won eight championship finals with a very impressive winning percentage. In the women's doubles final that followed, Barty's partner Sanders swept a pair of multinational pairs to win the championship and became the biggest winner of the tournament.
Two WTA250 tournaments competed at the Melbourne Summer Open in Melbourne this week. In the Melbourne Summer Open 1, former World No. 1 Seed No. 2 Seed Harapu of Romania and No. 3 Seed Russia's Kudmetova met in the final. Halep won the final at Rodrawall Stadium in just 74 minutes before sweeping his opponent 6-2, 6-3. This title is not only Halep's first title of the season, but also the second time to win the Tour singles title after winning the 2020 Rome tournament, the number of career singles titles has increased to 23, and the number of hard court titles has increased to 12. The title was also the first time in Halep's career that he won a Tour singles title in an Australian season.
In melbourne Summer Open 2, American Anisimova and qualifier Belarusian Sasnovic met in the final final. Today's match was the first time the two had met in an official match, a 2-hour and 9-minute battle between the two sides in a final at Rodrawal Stadium, which resulted in Anisimova winning the title with a 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 victory over Sassynovic. The title was the first title produced this season and the second Tour singles champion of Anisimova's career, the last time he won the title was at the 2019 Bogotá Open.
This year's ATP Cup was played in Sydney this week and today's final was played at Ken roseville Stadium at the Sydney Olympic Centre Tennis Court. After a week of competition, Spain and Canada met in this year's final. In the first singles match of the final, Shapovalov beat Busta 6-4, 6-3 to take the lead for Canada with the first point. In a single match between the two sides, Canada's Ariam beat Agut 7-6 (3) / 6-3 to score the second point for Canada. As a result, Canada won this year's ATP Cup with a 2-0 victory over Spain. This year is the third year of the ATP Cup, and the three-year competition has produced three different champions.
There is also an ATP250 tournament this week in Adelaide Open, where top seed Monfils of France and No. 2 seed Khachanov of Russia met this year's final after a week of competition. Reaching the final of this tournament allowed Monfils to complete a feat of reaching the tour final for 18 consecutive seasons, ranking third among active players, just 20 years behind Federer and Nadal in 19 years. In today's final, Monfils won the title with a key break in two key breaks to beat Khachanov 6-4, the 11th Tour singles title of Monfils' career, and the last victory was back to the Rotterdam Open in 2020. Khachanov, who lost the final, has failed to win the cup in two consecutive Tour finals since defeating Djokovic at the 2018 Paris Masters.
Nadal set a new record today to prove that the legend continues, and the victory of Barty, Halep and others also heralds the excitement of the new season. The Australian Open is just around the corner, and tennis tournaments and Djokovic visas will also have results next week, and we will continue to pay attention to bringing relevant reports to everyone.