List of records broken by Rafael Nadal after winning the 2022 Australian Open

List of records broken by Rafael Nadal after winning the 2022 Australian Open

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Rafael Nadal made the impossible possible at the 2022 Australian Open when the Spaniard defeated World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev in the finals to win the Grand Slam after a gap of 13 years having won his first in 2009. This also took him to the historic 21st Grand Slam that had earlier been missed by his fellow Big-3 members Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic who had both lost their chance to claim the 21st title.

Nadal was 0-2 down in the finals going into the 3rd set against Medvedev but rallied back strongly to win the match 2-6, 6-7(7), 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 after a marathon match of 5 hours and 24 minutes that went past 1:00 AM in Australia and became one of the longest Grand Slam finals ever played.

List of records broken by Rafael Nadal after winning the 2022 Australian Open

Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
  • Rafael Nadal is now the man with the most number of Grand Slam titles having won 21 majors.
  • Rafael Nadal joins Roy Emerson, Rod Laver and Djokovic to complete the Career Slam (winning all 4 Slams) for the second time.
  • Rafael Nadal is the only Singles player in history to complete the Career Slam twice and also have an Olympic Gold medal.
  • Rafael Nadal is the second player after Djokovic to complete the Career Slam in the Open Era.
  • Rafael Nadal collects his 15th season with at least 1 Slam title, extends his lead over 2nd placed Djokovic who is with 11 seasons.
  • Rafael Nadal extends to 6096 days the timespan between his 1st (2005 French Open) and last Slam title.
  • Rafael Nadal becomes the third player after Ken Rosewall and Federer to win a Slam after celebrating his 35th birthday.
  • Rafael Nadal has won his 90th career ATP title, becoming only the fourth player with 90+ such titles in the Open Era after Jimmy Connors (109), Federer (103) and Ivan Lendl (94).
  • Rafael Nadal is the 4th player in Men’s tennis history to win the Australian Open final after having dropped the first two sets and the first in the Open Era. Joins Fred Alexander (1908), Laver (1960) and Emerson (1965).
  • Rafael Nadal becomes the 5th most successful player at the Australian Open with 2 titles. Only behind Mats Wilander, Andre Agassi, Federer and Djokovic.
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