There’s only one game left. Raphael NadaHe opened the doors to his sixth final at the Australian Open with a resounding victory against Mateo Berrettini with 6-3, 6-2, 3-6 and 6-4. The chance to win his second title in Melbourne and the 21st Grand Slam of his career will be in the left hand of his racket this Sunday at the Rod Laver Arena against the winner of the semi-final against Daniil Medwedef Y Stefanos Tsitsipas.
“You do not know how important it is for me to be here,” he confessed. Jim Courier, just finished the game, visibly excited. And he repeated it minutes later when Mats Wilander he asked for Eurosport. “It’s hard to explain, he said excitedly. The people who have been by my side for the past six months know this. I feel alive again,” he stressed happily after reaching his 29th Grand Slam final since he won the first on Roland Garros. 2005 ..
Nadal was impeccable from the first point. Nadal he scored the first set in 43 minutes after breaking Berrettini’s knockdown in the second game. The 2009 champion set the pace, with his forehand command, almost without errors (5 unforced), very solid with his knockdown and effective in the rest, and crushed the back hand of the Italian tennis player who did not find a way out of the harassment could not find. . “It was basically that he did not use his powerful forehand,” Nadal explained.
absolute domain
In the second round, the landscape did not change, in a match played indoors, due to the rain. Nadal broke in the first two games to take a 4-0 lead against a desperate Berrettini. in 42 minutes Nadal He finished the second round, still with better feelings than in the first, and gave up only two games and without even giving a break point option to Berrettini.
The Italian tennis player had the first after 2 hours and 12 minutes of play in the eighth game of the third set (5-3) to stay on track and force Nadal to a fourth set.
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The reaction of Berretini it was too late. Nadal did not want to live out the history of the quarterfinals against Dennis Shapovalov, in which he suffered a heat stroke, and ended up exhausted after rescuing himself from the KO in the fifth set against the Canadian tennis player. The Italian tennis player, more aggressive and dominant with 22 points in a row without losing his knockout (five blank matches), could not withstand the pressure and Nadal He managed to make himself the ‘break’ (5-3) to end the victory with his knockout in the first ‘match ball.
Nadal , aged 35, will play his sixth final at the Australian Open this Sunday. The Balearic tennis player won first in 2009 against Roger Federer, in an epic five-set match, but lost the next five in 2012, to Novak Djokovic; in 2014, for Stan Wawrinka; in 2017, for Federer and in 2019, previously Djokovic.
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