Nadal is the first player to lose three consecutive Grand Slam finals in the Open Era
Djokovic is the fourth player to win three times in Australia after Agassi (4), Federer (4) and Wilander (3)
Novak Djokovic Open champion after defeating Australia in five sets to Rafael Nadal in the longest final in the history of the Grand Sam. `Nole´ conquering Melbourne for the third time and added the fifth `big´ is a record that continues to enrich the basis of a tennis exquisite. He is the king of the circuit, the number 1 in the world, the true ruler of tennis right now.
Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal for an aggregate score of 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5) and 7-5 after five hours and fifty-three minutes in the longest match in the final of a Grand Slam. Ode to the courts, can not be defined otherwise the spectacle either arranged on a stage with such legends as Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park, equipped for the occasion with 20,930 spectators. After 29 chapters, written between them and the poster of favorite running back and forth across the track, the duel began with weather conditions, high temperatures and high humidity, which foreshadowed a bitter battle. It was from the beginning, there was no respite. The first set fell on the payroll of a Nadal who seemed to have studied to perfection the enemy strategy and Djokovic was able to corner at the bottom of the track. The winners of the Spanish blows succeeded at the same time the Serb´s unforced errors and won by the first break in the eleventh game was definitive in his favor to sign the first round. His hit play when put on the track, change directions and heights to rival and settle every shot with the confidence of a number 1 gave off and made to hope a new feat.
But the sky turned gray in Melbourne a seen and unseen. Djokovic reaction was swift and soon proved to be the dominant player and successful that we are accustomed to seeing in recent days. His punches `weak´ in `became bombs´, as David Ferrer named to the ravages of Balkan whatever the angle of execution. He served in an exquisite way, rushed to each ball in intense exchanges of two titans themselves and did much damage to the rest of a Nadal who saw ghosts of the past appear. While the Serb showed its best with a deep game, powerful, strong and patient, the Spanish showed himself with shoulders slumped and head down. The six final loss to Djokovic last year happened over and over again in his head of Rafa, who saw `Nole´ would turn the light pointing at the second and third set.
The fourth set was perhaps less brilliant set, but also where he began to cook the tension of a meeting that seemed to boil. The mood in the stands were divided among the two best players in the world and pundits began to break their statistics as the clock ran out of sand. After a tentative first games where the war still punishing the physical and morale of both sides came exaltation. Nadal saved a 0-40 in the eighth game always key, the shock was suspended for 15 minutes to put the hood on the track because of the rain and justice after the resumption of tennis in September led to the resolution of the tie-break. Sudden death, shared pure state, was a carousel of emotions that ended with Rafa raising his fist to the four winds.
After nearly five hours of play, the game would start again. Exchanges tore the battered bodies of two players who had never reached the fifth set, turn on one another-but still remained stoically on the table running the action. Rafa, who began to appeal to the epic that seems to have for the third name was put forward in the light (4-2) with a break that sparked the fight in the stands. The gestures of joy `The Nadal´ (Sebastian, Miguel Angel, Toni, Maymó, Forcades, Perez-Barbadillo) moved the box of the `Djokovic´(Srdjan, Vajda, Divac, Jelena Ristic) with contrabreak the Serbian that refused to sink knee pass despite being more physically punished. The reaction of the Balkan cemented in their best weapons, pull out and hit inside track. Hard hit, was run over Rafa and achieving the desired break in the eleventh game. Then, with his service herorica pulled option to save a break before the finishing touch to the game. Knowing you have entered history, lay down on the floor to enjoy the latest exploits of his legend. In Australia began its history ...