A game to be enshrined again, a match in the top five of australian open history, belongs to the Nadal who is still familiar, and to the Nadal who has not been seen in years and feels a little strange.
Before the game, perhaps no one will be optimistic about Nadal: the injury has just healed, the state is unpredictable, every time you meet an opponent, it feels like opening a blind box, playing a heartbeat, and asking who dares to bet on the treasure; the 35-year-old, the 37-degree heat of Melbourne, the scorching summer of the flames burning the increasingly degraded body, even if it is still strong enough to complete the game until the fifth set; the prime minister who is technically comprehensive, strong in heart, and has been baptized by the US Open has pupated into a butterfly, and is the young player with the strongest upward momentum in the past year. Even if Deyo met him, he had a 60% chance of winning, and dared to ask Nadal if he could do it. For Nadal, a 35-year-old veteran, the best ending may be to win a set and not lose too humiliatingly.
The results of the first two sets (including the first eight innings of the third set) also seem to confirm everyone's opinion. The prime minister's serve is easy to write, with a high success rate of a shot and a fast connection, so that Nadal can not see any opportunities; and Nadal's serve is really heart-wrenching, slower ball speed and lower success rate of a shot, so that the prime minister's serve can always return to the bottom line, the advantage of the serve in an instant, the game suddenly entered the bottom line showdown. With the strength of both sides equal, the break point appears again and again, and the game may end at any time 3:0 instantly.
Maybe it was the laxity caused by the multiple waste of break points, or maybe Nadal understood that dragging on to the seven chances was even more slim, the ninth set of the third set, a game that inadvertently did not count the prime minister's mistakes, was broken by Nadal, and then it was the consecutive breaks that won the third set.
One of the big changes in the fourth set was that the prime minister may have limited physical fitness, the success rate of one shot is no longer stable, and the quality of Nadal's serve has improved significantly, which makes the two sides evenly matched on the plate and no longer one-sided. The momentum of the two sides has diminished, the prime minister's choice has become hesitant, and Nadal's batting is obviously full of confidence, and even the position has become forward. The two bottom-line masters invariably chose to continuously put small balls to end the endless bottom line and shoot more shots, but the result was that they repeatedly achieved the classic counterattack of the other side. Due to the multiple reasons of willpower and physical strength, Nadal won the fourth set with one more break.
The course of the fifth set is the process of momentum duel. With the momentum of perseverance and death, Nadal completed the break early, and even if he encountered a break in the win of the serve, Nadal still broke back in time and finally won the serve to win the game, winning the 21st Grand Slam of his career.
At the end of the game, tears instantly poured into my eyes, and the huge emotion suppressed the breath, so that the excitement could not be calmed for a long time... As a Nadal fan, I used to think that he would never win a Grand Slam again, not even reach the final again, even if he had the undefeated fighting spirit, he could not drag his tired body, and could only watch Deyo ride in the dust. And even after crossing the Djokovic, the younger generation has long grown up to be surrounded by tigers and wolves, and competitive sports can never get rid of the historical torrent of the back wave submerged the front wave. At this moment, however, history seems to be really going backwards, and it is not only the body that determines the victory or defeat, but also the willpower, the understanding of the game and the effort to adjust, which is the biggest reason for Nadal's victory today. Improving again in the game and evolving again in the game, Nadal used one of the most incredible Grand Slams to perfectly interpret the willpower and extraordinary adjustment ability of the opponents that the 20 Grand Slam winners had trained, and once again defended his reputation as the "God of War".
The BATTLE of the GOAT in the tennis world has diverged, the short-term balance of power has been broken, and until the final retirement, the three of you chasing me may not be able to stop. But the charm of sports lies in exquisite technology, unremitting persistence and clever adjustment, and every athlete who achieves the ultimate is worthy of our admiration and strength. The BATTLE of GOAT is no longer worth mentioning in front of the origin of this sport, and learning from each other's strengths and mutual achievements not only exists between the big three, but also should exist in the hearts of those of us who regard it as an idol. (Source: Tennis House Author: Fei Fei)