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Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 10:03 am , filed under Australian Open by Alan Kyle
World No.1, Novak Djokovic on Sunday has defended his Australian Open title beating world No.2, Rafael Nadal in the finals of the 2012 Australian Open.
It was a stunning battle between the top two players in the tennis world, as the Serbian top seed, Novak Djokovic has managed to clinch a superb five set victory against the top seeded Spaniard, Rafael Nadal with a score line of 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7(5), 7-5 to clinch his third Australian Open title in 5 hours, 53 minutes at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.
Both the players have started the match with a good note in the first set leveling the score with 2-2. The world No. 2 finally gave it back with a poor service game at 4-3, but he struck for a second time at 5-5 and converting break point on an errant Djokovic backhand to take the score to 6-5 in the match and finally saved a break point to take the first set with 7-5.
In the second set, defending champion, Djokovic has bounced back into the game breaking Nadal serve in second game to take a lead of 3-1 and later won back to back breakpoints to make a 5-2 and later won the second set by 6-4 to level the match with 1-1 in two-sets.
Djokovic continued his second set movement against Nadal to win the third set by hamming 11-winners, as Nadal hasn’t won any break points to loss it by 6-2.
Spaniard has gained some confidence and energy in the fourth set by hitting great forehands to stop the defending champion to take the match points. However, it was a tie-break at the end, as Nadal forced to shown al; his power against Djokovic to level the match with 7-6(5).
The final and deciding battle started in fifth set with both the players were taking on each other and leveling the score with 4-4. Melbourne’s top seed went on to hold serve from behind twice to take it 5-5 by breaking Nadal serve and continued to build pressure on the Spaniard to clinch fabulous victory to win his fifth grand slam title in his career.
Tags: 2012 Australian Open, Novak Djokovic, Novak Djokovic vs Rafael Nadal, Rafael Nadal
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The News was that Nadal ‘s knee problem , hope it is not original problem, Yesterday 29.01.2012 on that time running the match myself followed that knee it is same bandage but when he came to attended the prize ceremony on that time no knee bandage , what happen actually it is original or drama? Jayanti, New Delhi, India.