This Australian Open will go down in history for many reasons and the Netflix documentary will no doubt be a hit.

From the parody with Djokovic to the epic of Nadal, it’s been 25 days that we’ve had it all. From diplomatic episodes to how the legendary Spaniard changed tennis history and I’ll get to that.

At Nadal, at every opportunity, He explained that he was taking a breather after retiring from tennis ahead of the Australian Open to add more drama to his tremendous performance. The Spaniard doesn’t need that and he’s not such a character either.

Rafa has suffered as little as his body and the injuries he’s sustained throughout his career and over the years make his return even more difficult.

Determined to play as much as possible and enjoys what he does, it was in Australia that he got a big kiss of life again.

Medvedev did his best

But let’s take a look at what we saw in the grand finale. First of all, we must salute Daniel Medvedev. The Russian did everything to win the final.

He pushed Nadal, pinning him against the wall and pounding him. Especially in the first set, the Russian stormed perfectly with his service and returns, he won with concise runs.

In the second set and while Nadal had increased his pace, he used other things in his game (like the drop shots) to get the Spaniard out of the water and he succeeded.

In the next three sets, which Medvedev lost, he did everything almost perfectly. Nearly.

Nadal gave Medvedev his own medicine

From then on, Nadal gave Medvedev essentially his own medicine, which even crashed the Russian computer.

how did he do that? With the incredible mental reserves he has. In his place, others would have left the finals as a lot of what they take for granted doesn’t come out. The Spaniard even put us online.

Others would have despaired to see that every point measured on a hair ended up on the opposite bank. However, he didn’t and kept fighting, slowly causing the almost infallible Russian to lose confidence.

By the 2-2 of the third set, Nadal had made 40 effortless errors while the Russian had 23. In the rest of the game, the Spaniard made 28, one less than Medvedev, while almost leveling the situation on all parts of the stats. .

All of this didn’t make the Russians believe his eyes, as he admitted in the press conference, because where the 35-year-old Spaniard would wait to bend, he grew stronger and ended up defeating him.

He just wants to play

At the end of the game, Nadal celebrated a major win that gave him his 21st Grand Slam title, more than any other in his great career.

As he said, however, he doesn’t care. What he wants is to fight as much as his body will allow and he will do that.

Surely this Grand Slam will give him a boost to continue as he sees that despite the fact he wasn’t in the best shape of his career he was competitive and defeated the best trained tennis player.

For him and Roger Federer, the goal is to always be on the court and doing what they enjoy most about playing tennis.

Dreams are above Danil’s disapproval

Instead of an epilogue, I will refer to Daniel Medvedev and what he said in the press conference, where he again pointed out the public’s attitude towards him.

In fact, he stressed that now he will only care about playing for himself and for the Russians, pointing out that he cannot play tennis in these conditions.

Out of all of this, speaking to Novak Djokovic would do the Russian good. Nole always had a hostile crowd against him and yet he emerged stronger, winning 20 Grand Slam titles.

Unfortunately, Medvedev’s behavior is often missed and many of them pay for it by losing his focus. Yes, the Russian is the most spiritually strong compared to other tennis players. But we are still a long way from the Big 3.