The 2022 Australian Open enters its third matchday.
In the upper half of the men's singles, Spain's king Nadal welcomed his second opponent at the Australian Open, Hanfmann from Germany.
Hanfmann is currently ranked 126th in the world and has passed the qualifying test to advance to the main draw.
In the first round, Hanfmann unexpectedly beat hosts Kokinakis 3-0 to get a chance to play Nadal.
The two had a meeting at the 2019 French Open, when Nadal won easily in three straight sets.
As a result, the match was widely considered to be the side that Nadal easily won.
Then, only in the first plate, it can be seen that the once abusive king of vegetables is now difficult to regain the courage of the past.
Although the score in the first set was 6:2, which seemed like a very disparity, it took nearly 50 minutes.
In addition, in the first set, the first to encounter a break crisis was also Nadal, who faced the break point dilemma in his second and third serves, but fortunately, at the key moment, the serve line and the opponent's ability to catch were weak, and he escaped the disaster.
At the same time, in the case of the opponent's average serve ability, in the bottom line of the two people, Nadal does not have any advantage to speak of, and even some passive.
The opponent continued to pressure Nadal in the first set, so that at the end of the first set, the Spanish king seemed to have attacked with physical problems.
Fortunately, the experience is rich enough, in the opponent's serve, the two break opportunities were successfully seized, so that there is no danger to win the first set.
In the second set, although it took 53 minutes, it was longer than the first set, and Nadal only broke one of the opponent's serves, but compared to the first set, Nadal played better, especially in his own serve, he could easily save it, so that he could find opportunities in the opponent's serve and put pressure on the opponent.
Throughout the second set, the German had been facing a break in his own serve, and Nadal also entered his normal batting rhythm, controlling the direction of the whole game.
At 6:3, the starting Nadal took another set with the advantage of breaking once.
In the third set, it was finally the German's turn to serve first, but in the first set, Hanfmann was in trouble, giving the Spaniard two consecutive break points, fortunately through the service smoothly resolved, while Nadal's first serve was still relatively stable, easily saved.
The German, who escaped the first serve, dug a hole again in his second serve, came up to face three consecutive break points at 0:40, after saving two consecutive break points, and finally at the third break point, after a long round of multi-shot competition, the German sent the ball out of the bottom line, Nadal broke successfully, the set scored 2:1, leading;
Nadal, who scored this point, was very excited and celebrated with his signature move.
In the following matches, Nadal still had the opportunity to extend the lead and won two consecutive match points in the ninth set of the opposing serve, but the German was full of resilience and thrilling saves.
In the tenth set, Natto wasted two consecutive match points of his own in his serve to win the game, but fortunately the recalibrated Spaniard did not let the opportunity slip away.
After 2 hours and 42 minutes of play, Nadal finally seized the opportunity on the fifth match point and harvested the whole game with a score of 6:4.
3：0！ Dividing seems easy, but in fact the process is very difficult.
Throughout the game, Nadal's serve was very difficult, only one ace in the last serve, but there were 5 embarrassing moments of double errors in the whole game, while on the mobile end, the Spanish king looked very stiff and slow.
Playing with Hanfmann, who has been playing in the challenge for many years, Nadal's road to victory this year will be very difficult.
The opponents behind will become stronger and stronger, can Nadal continue to move forward?