Beijing time, January 31: The first Grand Slam Australian Open in 2022 has come to an end, and while everyone is lamenting nadal's incredible reversal to get a record 21st Grand Slam title, I believe there will be many people who deeply regret Medvedev, who is only a little bit away from creating a record in men's tennis.
Before the final, the Russian was clearly the more favored side, which was his third consecutive hardcore Grand Slam final, the only one last year to beat his Djokovic at a hardcore and quit before the game. As the champion of the new Kemei Open, a new generation of hard-ground small hegemons, Medvedev deserves more support. At one point, he also led 2-0 in the set, at this time he was only one set away from becoming the first player since the Open era to win his second Grand Slam title back-to-back after winning the first title, and only one set away from the new world number one.
But in the end, Mei Zong still missed it, and in the third set of the sixth set, 40-0 leading the serve game, his slight relaxation allowed the world's least willing to give up God of War to seize the opportunity. In the end, a heart-wrenching reversal was made, and a second consecutive hardcore Grand Slam title was missed. Maybe the world number one Medvedev still has a chance to go to the top, but becoming the first player since the Open era to win his first title and then win his second Grand Slam title back-to-back, if he misses it, he really misses it.
Last year's French Open final, Tsitsipas was reversed by Djokovic, this year's Australian Open final, I did not expect Medvedev will also be reversed like this, after all, he has won the Grand Slam title, after all, in the quarter-final he has just reversed others, after all, this is a hard ground, after all, he has a special kind of anger. But the end result, that's it, that's what he did, he also followed his "boring colleague" path.
Born in 1996, Medvedev is favored by many as the leader of the new generation of men's tennis and the new world number one. He did do a lot, won the Grand Slam title, and is getting closer and closer to the world number one. However, there is still a long way to go from the king with the ruling level, especially this time when he was reversed by the older generation of clay king Nadal in the hard ground he was best at, and he really had to summarize this lesson well.
In the new year, the first Grand Slam gave people so much inconceivable, Djokovic was forced to quit, but did not let the widely optimistic Medvedev successfully win the championship to grow the new king, and the veteran king Nadal, who once disappeared, magically won the championship and created a new historical record. All this proves that the era of the Big Three is not over, and the new generation of players wants to take over completely, and it is not yet time. And this moment reminds me of the man who is now 40 years old, and I really hope that you can come back.