Novak Djokovic wins battle of resilience against Dominic Thiem to get 8th Australian Open title
Trailing by one set to two, Novak Djokovic eventually won 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Dominic Thiem to take home record 8th Australian Open title.
Trailing by one set to two, Novak Djokovic eventually won 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 against Dominic Thiem to take home record 8th Australian Open title.
Eleventh seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury won the men's doubles final of this year's Australian Open with a straight-set victory of 6-4, 6-2.
Sofia Kenin rallied from one set down in the Australian Open final at the Rod Laver Arena on Saturday to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 and claim her first Major title.
The top-seed Australian, Alcott, got the better of his British opponent Andy Lapthorne 6-0, 6-4 in the finals to complete his historic win on Saturday.
Djokovic will face the Austrian world number 5 Dominic Thiem in the final. Thiem had beaten German world number eight Alexander Zverev.
Ashleigh Barty, who was looking to become the first Australian woman in 40 years to reach the final, lost 6-7(8), 5-7 to Sofia Kenin in the semifinal.
Thiem will now be up against Zverev in the semifinal.
Nadal was training outside and not carrying his accreditation and it needed a colleague of the security official to intervene and familiarise his colleague with the great Spaniard.
Romania's Simona Halep will face Garbine Muguruza of Spain in the semi-finals on Thursday.
The seventh seed was thumped in the first set but recovered to grind down the 2014 champion 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in the hot sun on Rod Laver Arena.
