The 2022 Australian Open came to an end, in the most outside men's singles final, 20-time Grand Slam champion Nadal staged a stunning reversal in the game, he won three consecutive sets in the case of a big score of 0:2, defeated the No. 2 seed Medvedev in the total score of 3:2, after the final of the 2019 US Open, once again defeated his opponent in the grand slam final to win the Men's Singles Championship of the Australian Open, which is also the 21st Grand Slam champion of Nadal's career. At the same time, Nadal's Grand Slam champions surpassed Djokovic and Federer's 20, becoming the male player who won the most Grand Slam titles in the history of men's tennis, it is worth mentioning that after winning the second Grand Slam title of his career, Nadal also became the second male player to win a double Grand Slam after Djokovic, and Nadal took a big step towards "the best in history".
Medvedev and Nadal will play the Australian Open men's singles final, which is the most anticipated men's singles showdown, which of course does not include the world number one Djokovic, the two no matter who wins the championship, it is not a good thing for Djokovic, if Medvedov wins the championship, then he will replace Djokovic as the new world number one, this will be the first time in only 18 years that there are players outside the big four (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray) to crown this honor, and if Nadal wins the championship, Then he will become the male player with the most Grand Slam titles in history with 21 titles, and before this game Djokovic, Nadal and Federer all had 20 Grand Slam titles, both sides have a chance to make history. Nadal has won only one australian open final in five previous attempts, while Medvedev has reached the australian open men's singles final for two consecutive years, and both are eager to win this year's Australian Open.
In the first set, the two sides each saved their serves to a 1:1 draw, and in the third set, Nadal was forced out of the break point by his opponent twice at the end of the set, but he relied on the serve to overcome the danger, then Nadal struggled to save the serve, and in the fourth set, Medvedev saved the game and chased the score to 2:2. In the fifth set, Nadal conceded three consecutive break points on his own serve, and then he returned the ball out of bounds, Medvedev broke strongly to take the lead, and then he easily saved his own serve to take a 4-2 lead. In the seventh set, Nadal's form was still not improving, he lost four consecutive points in his fourth serve, Medvedev led 5:2 to get the set, in the eighth game Nadal scored a point and then lost four consecutive points, Medvedev easily saved, and finally Medvedev easily won the first set 6:2.
In the second set, Nadal took the lead in saving his own serve from the beginning, in the second set Medvedev held a strong serve, in the third set, both sides won two points each after Nadal won two consecutive points to save, in the fourth set Medvedev opened with two consecutive points and fell into passivity, Nadal forced out two break points in this set, as Medvedev returned the ball out of bounds, Nadal successfully broke to take a 3:1 lead. Then both sides each saved their own serve after Nadal led 5:3 into the set to win the set, the ninth set of the game process was full of twists and turns, Medvedev has won four break points but did not seize the opportunity, Nadal lost a set, Medvedev finally seized the opportunity at the fifth break point of the game, Medvedev successfully broke to force the score to 4:5, after the successful preservation of the two sides to a 5:5 draw. The two sides went from 2:2 to a 3-3 draw, with Nadal scoring two consecutive points to lead 5-3, and Medvedev, who was behind, scored four consecutive points to win the tiebreaker 7-5 and win another set 7-6.
In the third set, the first four sets of the two sides each saved the battle to a 2:2 draw, the fifth set of the game Medvedev easily saved the lead, in the sixth game Nadal lost three consecutive points in his own serve by the opponent forced out of three break points, under pressure Nadal scored three consecutive points to chase the tie, and then Medvedev again forced the break point but did not seize the opportunity, Nadal struggled to keep his serve, the two sides fought to a 3:3 draw, Medvedev was broken by Nadal in the fifth serve, Nadal then won the set and pulled back a city 6-4. In the fourth set, the two sides began to draw 1:1, in the third set Medvedev was broken by Nadal in his own service, in the fourth set Medvedev returned to Nadal's serve under pressure and the two sides fought to a 2:2 draw, in the fifth set Medvedev came up and lost three points, Medvedev scored four consecutive points to get the set point, Nadal then got the break point several times, and finally successfully broke, with this break point, Nadal finally won another set 6:4, and the first four sets of the two sides were tied 2:2.
The tiebreaker match between the two sides began to play very fiercely, the first four sets of the autumn battle into a 2:2 draw, Nadal successfully broke the opponent's serve in the fifth set, and then fought hard in the sixth set for 12 minutes to save the 4:2 lead, and then the two sides each saved the score to 5:4, Nadal ushered in the victory of the serve, Medvedev seized the opportunity of Nadal's unstable mentality to stubbornly break the score to tie the score, unfortunately, then lost again in his own serve, Nadal did not give the opponent another chance in the second serve win, He managed to save his serve by four straight points and won the decider 7-5, defeating Medvedev 3:2 on aggregate to win the Australian Open men's singles title for the second time and the 21st Grand Slam men's singles title, considering that the "Big Three" are no longer young, this championship is expected to make Nadal's cornering overtaking the "best in history" in men's tennis.