On January 28, Beijing time, the 2022 tennis Grand Slam Australian Open continued, in the first to end a men's singles semifinal, Spain's king Nadal continued to be in good shape, 6-3/6-2/3-6/6-3 defeated the No. 7 seed Berrettini, following 2019 to enter the Australian Open men's singles final, the 6th australian open men's singles final, and the 29th time in his career to reach the grand slam men's singles final.
Spain's king Nadal has a brilliant record, and has won 20 Grand Slam titles so far in his career, including the French Open 13 cups with the title of "King of Clay", and the Australian Open is Nadal's worst grand slam, reaching the final in five times and winning only one title. The 2021 French Open semi-final unbeaten gold body was broken, and since then almost missed the rest of the tournament, until the end of 2021 to return. After entering 2022, Nadal once again increased his vitality, after winning the pre-Australian Open warm-up match, he entered the first two rounds of the Australian Open and won easily, winning 3-1 against Khachanov in the third round, defeating Mannarino in the first set of the fourth round, and defeating Shapovalov in the five-set battle against stomach discomfort in the quarterfinals, breaking through the curse of the australian open quarter-finals.
Nadal's opponent in the semi-finals is the No. 7 seed of the tournament, Italy's Berrettini, who reached the final four for the first time in the US Open in 2019, and continued to grow until 2021, Reaching the Masters final for the first time in Madrid, and creating personal Grand Slam history at Wimbledon after stopping the quarterfinals of the French Open, all the way to the final. At the Australian Open, Berrettini played as the No. 7 seed, winning the first two rounds against Brandon Nakajima and Kezlov, defeating supernova Alcaraz in five sets against a sprained right foot in the third round, followed by a 3-0 win over Busta, and another five-set defeat to Monfils in the quarterfinals. The two had previously met in the 2019 US Open semi-finals, when Nadal won in three straight sets.
In the first set, Nadal, who took the lead in the first set, suffered a 40-40 tie in the first set, and then scored consecutive serves to complete the save, and in the second set, Berrettini's serve entered the state slightly slower, and the positive shot sent a 15-40 break point with consecutive mistakes, Nadal then continuously suppressed the opponent's backhand, Berrettini was forced to return the ball out of bounds to lose the set, And Nadal continued to complete the 3-0 lead under the serve. After entering the rhythm of their respective serves, Nadal maintained the break advantage until the end, winning the first set 6-3.
In the second set, Nadal quickly attacked the opponent's serve in the opening stages, Anderettini's serve and front shot were still wrong, and Nadal won the set on a 40-15 consecutive break point to complete the 2-0 lead. Berrettini, who was behind the score, became more and more impatient, this game Nadal played a straight line after receiving the ball and went up, holding a 40-15 consecutive break point, Berrettini saved three break points, a round of 16 beats in the Middle Berrettini back-shot hanging net sent the fourth break point, Berrettini next serve to establish an advantage in the situation, came to the net to shoot again and lost the game.
Nadal broke through the band to save the score 4-0 lead, each saved Berrettini 1-5 behind, had to protect the set, after the score of 30-30 draw, resisted the pressure to score consecutive serves to save. 5-2 to Nadal's second set of the serve to win the set, the score came to 30-30 after Nadal served consecutive points to complete the save, 6-2 to win the second set, the first two sets Oferetini did not get a break point, unforced error 24-7 far beyond the opponent.
In the third set, Berrettini's first serve suffered a 40-40 draw, and since then, a series of high-quality serves have been saved, and the third serve is still against the danger of 40-40 draws to complete the save, and Nadal has never been able to force a break point opportunity. Berrettini's state slowly improved under their respective serves, the seventh set finally completed the first lovegame save, in the eighth set Nadal appeared to have a state of physical fluctuations began to decline, and after shooting out of bounds, he was played by the opponent to shoot straight through the point, after which Berrettini received the ball and pressed his feet, Nadal retreated and slapped the ball back to the net to send 0-40 consecutive break points, which was also the first time that Berrettini got a break opportunity in this game, and then Berrettini was shooting straight to win the break, and then Helio saved the 6-3 victory, Pulled back a set to fall behind 1-2 on aggregate.
In the fourth set, the opening stage was still their own rhythm, Berrettini's serve status continued to improve, the first three serves were completed lovegame, Nadal's serve was once impacted in the seventh set, Berrettini failed to force the break point opportunity after a 30-30 draw, and Nadal saved a 4-3 lead. In the eighth set, Berrettini's pressured serve errors began to appear, and the positive shot sent a break point with consecutive errors, Anderettini won a multi-shot to save the break point, followed by two consecutive positive shot errors directly to the set, and Nadal broke to take a 5-3 lead. Next came Nadal's serve to win the game, and after withstanding the double error in the opening stage, Nadal took the lead and successfully completed the next 6-3 win in the fourth set.
In the end, Spain's king Nadal performed even better, beating No. 7 seed Berrettini 3-1 to reach the Men's Singles Final of the Australian Open for the sixth time in his career. The whole game lasted 2 hours and 55 minutes, in which Nadal completed 5 ACES balls and 2 double errors, Andreitini had 14 ACES goals and 2 double errors, with a success rate of 69% nadal leading slightly, and a 74% lead by Berrettini. Berrettini led 38-28 on the winning points, Nadal had 19 Berrettini and 39 unforced errors, Berrettini completed 1 break with 2 break points in the breaks, and Nadal had 4 breaks from 8 break points.