AUS Open 2022: Medvedev in the final, will dream of Nadal’s 21st Grand Slam title

New Delhi. Rafael Nada (Rafael Nada) is now far away from the record 21st single Grand Slam title in the men’s tennis, beating Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. The 35-year-old Spain’s 35-year-old defeated Matio Beretini of Italy 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to enter the final of the Australian Open for the sixth time, where he would face another seeded Daniil Medvedev. Us Open champion Medvedev defeated Stephanos Sitsipas 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 6–1 in another semi-finals. Medvedev is in the exercise to become the first player in the Open era to win the next Grand Slam tournament after winning his first Grand Slam title. Before this first Grand Slam of the year, Nadal, who was struggling with corona infections and injuries, did not know how long his journey would be. He won a tournament for preparation and here he has won six consecutive matches. After winning another match, he will leave Federer and Djokovic behind. With this, all four Grand Slam will become the second male player to win at least twice. Nadal said, “My focus is only on the Australian Open title. I was a bit unfortunate here and could not win many times due to injuries. Once I won here and never thought that I would be able to get closer to the victory in 2022. ”Nadal, who won the Australian Open only once in 2009, dominated both the sets and ran around the court. In the second set, he took a 4–0 lead. Seventh seeded Beretini could score marks on his second service only once in 11 attempts. Due to heavy rains, the roof of Rod Lever Arena was closed, causing a lot of humidity inside. In such a situation, the ball became heavy and flat. In the first two sets, all the long rails went in favor of sixth seed Spanish Dhurandhar Nadal. Rafael Nadal recorded a win from the 21st Grandslam, Roger Federer and Novak, the opportunity to overtake the Djokovic, Baretini returned to the third set and redeemed the second in the eighth game by making three break points and took a 5-3 lead. He retained the service in the next game and pulled the match in the fourth set with four consecutive points. In the eighth game of the fourth set, Nadal again broke his service and won the match. Federer is not playing due to injury, while nine -time champion Djokovic was deported a day before the tournament for not following Australia’s stringent corona vaccination rules. More than 2 thousand Iranian women who came to see the match, the entire stadium, on getting entry, see the match against Sitsipas, two days later, for Russian player Medvedev, who trails from two sets in the video quarter -finals and saving the match point, the match against Sitsipas was also emotional. He also expressed his displeasure at the chair umpire after losing the service in the second set. He had demanded that his father sitting among the audience is coaching Sitsipas and the Greek player should be warned for this. Medvedev lost this set. He took a five -minute rest and landed on the court with more passion. He took a break point at the end of the third set and then won by scoring five consecutive points in the next set. Medvedev defeated SITSIPAS in the semi -finals at Melbourne Park last year but lost to Djokovic in the final.

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