Matteo Berrettini takes an hour and a half to take the field, and in the end he is forced to surrender to a revived Rafael Nadal, who like all great champions raises the level in the final phase of the tournaments that count and grabs the final of the Australian Open , first Slam of the season.
The score, at the end of almost three hours of play, is 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
The blue immediately suffers a break both in the first and in the second set, the Spaniard hammers him on the weak side (the backhand) and after an hour and 25 minutes he is already ahead 6-3, 6-2.
In the third set another match begins, Berrettini starts hitting with his weapons, serve and forehand, and also improves on the weak side. He keeps his service rounds and in the eighth game he places the decisive break, 6-3. Nadal also goes into difficulty in the first round of service of the fourth set, but he gets away with it, while Berrettini keeps his services at zero. Until the eighth game, when the blue gives the break to 30 and paves the way for the Majorcan, who closes 6-3 and flies to the final.
Nadal in the last act will face the Russian Medvedev who defeated Tsitsipas in 4 sets, in case of triumph he would gain the 21st Slam by detaching Federer and Djokovic. Berrettini consoles himself with another great tournament and with the new best ranking, the semifinal allows him to climb a position by climbing to sixth place in the ATP ranking.
(Unioneonline / L)
