- Spaniard beats Berrettini 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
- Nadal aiming to become first male player to win 21 grand slams
Across the twenty seasons that Rafael Nadal has spent travelling the world as a professional tennis player, he has slowly and with great difficulty compiled one of the greatest sporting CVs the world has seen. He has won so much both at his very best and when his body has been on the brink of crumbling, but what he has achieved so far this year already stands high on his unending list of achievements.
After a six month layoff due to a chronic foot injury, a recent bout of Covid and swirling doubts about whether he would ever return to competition, at 35 Nadal has risen to produce one of his more improbable runs to a grand slam final at the Australian Open.