Daniil Medvedev’s first taste of going up against Rafael Nadal was as an eight-year-old. When hitting against the wall of a Moscow club as a child, Medvedev imagined he was playing Nadal.
In the Australian Open final on Sunday, with history on the line, the 25-year-old Russian will strive to keep it all together when he takes on the legendary Spaniard. Medvedev knows the ball will come back. Nadal’s biggest strength isn’t that heavy, lefty forehand or the ability to outwait, unruffled and unbent, but that he’s the sport’s ultimate competitor by instinct. It’s what puts the shine to his smile.
While that’ll be the spirit of the final, the craft the two men bring to the stage could well be what decides it.
Nadal’s more aggressive stance since teaming with the former world No. 1 Carlos Moya has given his play a knife-like sharpness. In their five years together Nadal has won six Grand Slams, making two finals at Melbourne Park. Sunday will be the third.
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