[Sports Road News]Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal (Rafael Nadal) on Tuesday (25th) in the 2022 Australian Open men’s singles semi-finals, experienced the first match of this tournament to play a full five-set match. With a two-set lead and a tie, he beat Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov 3-2 after more than 4 hours of fierce fighting to advance to the semi-finals, reaching the final of the Australian Open for the seventh time in his career. 4 strong.
Facing Shabaohualov, who is also a left-hander, Nadu, who has an excellent track record but lost in an exhibition match in Abu Dhabi at the end of last year, broke serve in the early part of the first set. Nadu scored 4 points in a row in the 4th game and opened the lead to 3:1. After the two sides successfully kept their respective serving games, Nadu Xian won a set 6:3.
There was a small episode before the start of the second set. Shabaohualov was dissatisfied with Nadu’s delay in getting up from his seat and returning to the court. He complained to the referee and believed that the referee should sentence Nadu to overtime. When no one was able to get the hang of it, Shabaowarov angrily lashed out at the referee again and again: “All of you are corrupt.” After the first serving game of the second set, Shabaowarov, who was leading 1-0 at the time, “fired” at the referee again. The referee pointed out that Nadu did not violate the time limit, “because there are still eight left in the countdown. second”. At this time, Nadu moved forward to talk with Shabaohualov, trying to ease the situation on the spot. After the game resumed, Nadu relied on another break in the 7th game to win another victory 6:4.
Just when the fans thought that Nadu would probably advance easily, Shabaohualov’s counterattack began to be staged. The 22-year-old Canadian player first broke serve in the 10th game of the third set, recovering a set 6:4, and then broke again in the early part of the fourth set, eliminating the disadvantage of being two sets behind at once; this time , the game has been played for 3 hours and 16 minutes.
In the fifth set of the final match, the No. 6 seed and the 35-year-old veteran Nadu showed amazing tenacity. After breaking serve in the second game, he grabbed a 4:1 lead. Although Shabaohualov tried to turn the tide, he made 20 ACEs, 53 active points, and even only got 5 double-serving errors in the whole game, all of which were better than Nadu. However, Shabaowarov’s 51 mistakes under no pressure were also his fatal injuries, the last of which was a goal that ended the 4 hours and 8 minutes of the match.
In the middle of the game, he had to use a medical timeout to deal with the stomach pain problem. In the end, he won the final set 6:3 and the set number won 3:2 to advance to the semi-finals. It was also his first Australian Open semi-final since 2019; If there are 4 Grand Slams, it will be the 36th time in history that Nadu has reached the semi-finals. The only time he had won the championship in 2009, as long as he won two more battles, he would be able to take the lead in the air-to-air contest with the two rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, becoming the history of tennis. First male golfer to win 21 majors.
In 2022, he has played 7 games without a single defeat, and will fight the seventh-seeded Italian Matteo Berrettini in the Australian Open semi-finals, or the French veteran Gaël_Monfils. winner.
Source: Comprehensive foreign media
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