Nadal wins the Australian Open 2-6 6-7 6-4 6-4 7-5
The guy is a machine
Nadal’s achievement comes only a few months after he thought he would never be able to return to the tour because of a foot injury.
The issue restricted him to only one tournament in the final seven months of 2021, while a bout of coronavirus in mid-December also left him “very sick with fever”.
Those setbacks meant the Australian Open was just Nadal’s second competitive event in five months, having won a warm-up tournament at Melbourne Park earlier in January.