On the evening of January 30, Beijing time, the australian open, the first tennis grand slam event in 2022, came to an end at Rodrawall Stadium in Melbourne Park. In the most closely watched men's singles final, the 2009 tournament champion 20 Grand Slam winner No. 6 seed Spain's Nadal defeated the no. 2 seed in Melbourne after losing two sets, with a score of 2-6, 6-7 (5)/ 6-4/6-4/7-5 to achieve a double-lap Grand Slam feat. Nadal's number of Grand Slams also increased to 21, surpassing Federer and Djokovic alone to become the all-time best in men's tennis. Today's match highlighted Nadal's god of war essence and indomitability, and the result of this victory was enough to be recorded in history and remembered by everyone. At this special time we will talk about those things about Nadal.
This year's Australian Open men's singles final started at Rodrawall Stadium at 4:30 p.m. Beijing time on January 30. Combined with the recent state, the pre-match parties were more interested in Medvedev's ability to win the game. Nadal, who served first after the game began, played very hard in his own serve, and after the first four sets were mutually secured, Nadal's serve appeared loose and lost four sets in a row to make it 2-6. After entering the second set, Nadal adjusted his competitive form to take the lead in breaking, but was quickly broken by the opponent, and wasted a set of opportunities for the two sides to fight 6-6 in the first 12 sets by grabbing seven. Nadal took the lead in the steal of seven, but was saved by Medvedev, and finally seized the key points to win the second set of the seventh to win 7-5 and occupy the favorable position of winning back-to-back Grand Slams.
Nadal's serve was still very tangled after the game entered the third set, and Medvedev was given the opportunity to serve first. Both sides saved their serves in the first five innings, and in the crucial sixth set Nadal started 0-40 behind to send a series of break points, at this time almost everyone felt that Nadal was gone, only he did not give up a point and point back to finally achieve a save, and then Nadal completed the break and maintained the break advantage until the end to pull back a set at 6-4 to bring the set to 1:2. After the game entered the fourth set, Nadal continued the good form of the third set, while the opponent was in a state of decline, Nadal seized this rare opportunity to play 6-4 again to chase the score to 2:2, and the two sides needed to divide the winner through the decider.
After entering the tiebreaker, Nadal initially created a threat to the opponent's serve but failed to convert the break point into a 2-2 tie in the first four sets. In the fifth set, Nadal did not miss the opportunity to break again to complete the break to take the lead, and the next few sets were held by both sides to make it 5-4 Nadal to usher in the victory of the serve. In the crucial tenth set of this serve win, Nadal made a good start to two consecutive points to take a 30-0 lead just two points away from the win, at this time Medvedev put a lot of pressure on Nadal in the receiving, and Nadal's serve also appeared loose and lost four consecutive innings to be chased to 5-5. The game went into the 11th set, And Nadal was not affected by the break, and once again found a break opportunity and broke again to bring the set to 6-5 to usher in a second chance to win the game. This time, Nadal did not waste the opportunity to win the decisive set with love game and successfully staged a big comeback to win the decisive set 7-5 to end the 5 hours and 24 minutes of the final to win the championship.
This title is Nadal's second victory at the Australian Open in 13 years to achieve a career double grand slam, and his number of Grand Slams has also reached 21, surpassing Federer and Djokovic alone in the first place in history. With this champion Nadal also came to the best position in history, and the next Grand Slam that can win the australian open at the least optimistic is still to be expected. Nadal's career can be said to be the most bumpy of the Big Three, and he had to fight against Federer, who ruled the tennis world, and just had a little dominance to face the impact of Djokovic. In such a bad situation, he was able to take the lead in 21 crowns and laid a solid foundation for finally locking in the best of history. The title is also the 90th singles title of Nadal's career, which continues to be fourth in history. This year's Australian Open is his 63rd grand slam tournament, 21 titles, which means that one of the three competitions has won the championship, and this efficiency is unmatched.
As a peer who has been following Nadal since 2003, I have been walking for nearly 20 years. These times can take away a lot of things, and you can see that he has also changed from youth to maturity, from the unruly pirate teenager to the giant who rules the tennis world, constantly breaking one record after another. What doesn't change is his tenacious fighting spirit on the field, he is the real god of war on the tennis court. When today's game lost two sets and faced three consecutive break points, basically everyone felt that the trend had gone and there would be no more miracles, the reason was very simple that he was close to 36 years old, this is the hard ground he is not good at, this is his best Australian Open, the previous 5 finals only won once in 2009, the two finals in 2012 and 2017 were reversed in the decider were the first to break, suddenly injured in the 2014 game, swept in 2019, There is no reason to reverse such a situation today. As you can see from the previous rounds of matches, in the third set of the five-set three-win game, the physical pole appeared, and the only hope at that time was not to be injured, and Melbourne was incompatible, and health was more important than anything.
Seeing Nadal difficult to complete the save and then break, constantly through the game to find a way to crack the opponent step by step to erase the score difference and finally make the impossible into possible, this classic game witnessed the legendary god of war to the top of the history of the best. To tell the truth, from the completion of the third set of that incredible hair preservation, I couldn't suppress my emotions and began to move to tears, silently cheering him on during the period, hoping that he could move the world and the efforts he put in could get the best praise. I also think of the 20 years that have followed Nadal all the way, there are too many things happening in the middle, these years of injuries have been with him, every victory, every championship has paid an unimaginable effort for ordinary people. Last year's season was reimbursed early for treatment, and at the end of last year, it was difficult to win a comeback in the Abu Dhabi exhibition match and unfortunately infected with the new crown, at that time, I really did not expect to participate in this year's Australian Open, and even the most daring people could not imagine that they could win the Australian Open this year. At the moment of winning the championship point, I believe that even if they did not pay much attention to tennis and watched the live broadcast of the game, they were impressed by Nadal's play, and the world war god reached the top of the history of the best so that the bean fans' resentment against the Australian Open was completely solved.
The 21st crown occupies the best position in history, it is definitely not the end for Nadal, and the French Open that starts in May is where his dream began, although it has not achieved five consecutive titles in 2021, I believe that with the double-circle glory created by the Australian Open, it is possible to hold the Musketeers Cup again at the clay stadium of Roland Garros. Gratitude, in his 20th year of following and loving Nadal, has seen him go from being a wind-chaser teenager in Mallorca to the best in history, and his story has encouraged fans and fans who love him. Tonight is happy for bean powder, and finally untied the knot with Melbourne, this day really waited too long, the fiasco in 2019 almost everyone thinks that the Australian Open is impossible. He is to turn the impossible into possible in the most desperate situation, no matter what age he is, the hard work of not accepting defeat is enough to make every opponent afraid, and we also expect Rafa to create more legends in the future.
Thank you Rafa for making us have a good year, thank you for growing up with us, and thank you for being able to powder such a quality player. Finally, I wish everyone a happy New Year, and look forward to a better tomorrow for Bean, and shout out the most familiar VAMOS RAFA !!!!