Nadal won Melbourne tennis Masters – Roger Federer defeated in five sets

* The world number one Roger Federer defeated in five sets (7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6 and 6-2)
* First of a Spanish victory in Melbourne and sixth Grand Slam for the Balearic

MADRID .- It was exhausted adjectives, but the reality is immutable: Rafa Nadal rules the tennis world with all of the Act. He knows the world of clay, grass at Wimbledon, and today, the track lasts Melbourne. The world number one has won the Open on Sunday after giving Australia a final to remember. The Mallorcan tennis player has defeated his eternal enemy, Roger Federer in five sets (7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6 and 6-2) in four hours and 23 minutes of play. It was a tense duel, without quarter, the highest level, which showed that these two players are still moving, despite the emergence of rackets such as the Murray, Djokovic, Tsonga Verdasco or in another dimension.

It is the sixth Grand Slam in the curriculum of Rafa Nadal (to add the Wimbledon title this past year and four editions of Roland Garros), which brought down another wall is the first Spanish champion takes on the track in Melbourne. The Balearic thwarted dream project for Federer, who had brought this February 1 in the calendar as the date for its fourteenth conquering large and thus match those achieved by American Pete Sampras.

Juan Gisbert (1968), Andres Gimeno (1969) and Carlos Moya (1997) fell in the Australian final, but Nadal did not. Three of the last disputed Grad Slams have fallen into their hands: the number one left the U.S. Open to complete the ‘Rafa Slam’.

It is no secret that you do not want to see Federer or Nadal in painting ( “prefer to Verdasco,” admitted before the final) because they feared bad drinks from the first point. For something very serious Swiss appeared in Rod Laver Arena, almost pale. A few steps, walking with the number one martial step. The courtesy peloteo was the only one in mourning again exceptional. There were alternatives in the first set, which began sending Nadal quickly countered with a break for his opponent. Federer seemed at times capable of changing their fate: did handle the situation with authority, almost without errors, until finally a 4-2 that was nothing. Because Nadal is sticky, never disappears from the map. The Majorcan saved ball to his impossible, returned one after another, was allowed cool coups (majestic left in a key moment, with 5-5) and Federer fell prey to anxiety: not stepped forced errors, especially with the setback and falter in the first part (7-5).

In the second part, the first set Federer initialed blank ahead of the game for 2-1 and that was a sign of recovery of the Swiss, who shot a classmate to solve complicated situation. Nadal was ahead 3-2 after breaking the service of number two, but Federer won the match and build positive momentum in spite of the limited power of his service (48 per cent of ‘first’). Nadal, at that moment something out of the match, gave the key game in this set, the eighth, a marathon Deuces advantages and in which Federer had five break balls. With 5-3, Federer only had to finish the job. Started a new party.

A new party that had the air of the great duels between the top two rackets das balloon, which was not granted respite to the ‘tie break’ which solved the third set, the breadth of the most igualada final, which Nadal died and was resurrected several times as many. With 4-4 in part, Spanish saved four break balls in the ninth game, and as many in the eleventh. Federer, comfortable, with bright flashes, although not as consistent as in other oportudades left alive balear andalusia. Nadal returned to his opponent to get crazy, which granted the sudden death and was forced to comeback to win their fourteenth Grand Slam.

And the purpose of Federer seemed firm was ahead 0-2 in the fourth set, while Nadal seemed to know even his victory in the third. Nadal appeared to oppose resistance (2-2), but in vain. In the fifth game of the fourth sleeve, Nadal wasted four balls to break the Swiss service. Federer saved the furniture and broke immediately after the Spanish service. With the ghost of fatigue on the central planning of Melbourne (a disputed semifinal Nadal over 5 hours before Verdasco; Federer suffers in games so long before the Spanish), the match went the limit of the fifth set.

And indeed, this is the territory of a number, used to solve the games in the last frontier. The Mallorcan, with the sharp face, got a ‘break’ provicencial in the fourth game of the final sleeve. Federer revived the feelings of the recent Wimbledon and Roland Garros three previous despair loomed and nerves in his face and his game. Two wrongs do not force the Swiss paved the way for Nadal to 4-1. The penultimate opposition Federer, playing a blank, was replicated with another similar by the Mallorcan. 5-2 in the Swiss and despair, which ended down arms. Again, in its thirteenth andalusia Spanish defeat in 19 clashes. Central Melbourne on behalf of the legendary Rod Laver, terra incognita until today, was also taken by Nadal. Incontestable.

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