NEW YORK: Tennis giant from Spain Rafael Nadal has slain his Russian opponent Daniil Medvedev to win his fourth US Open and 19th Grand Slam, here today.
After the four hours and 50 minutes dual Rafael Nadal emerged as the champion with a 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 win.
Though the 33-year-old Spaniard is close to 38-year-old Swiss Roger Federer’s all-time record of 20 Grand Slams, Nadal held he was motivated by the amour of the game itself and not the love of records.
“I am playing tennis because I love to play tennis. I can’t just think about Grand Slams. Tennis is more than Grand Slams. I need to think about the rest of the things. I play to be happy. Of course, the victory of today makes me super happy,” Rafael Nadal.
A relevant piece published earlier:
NEW YORK: 19-year-old Canadian Bianca Andreescu managed to slain 37-year-old Serena Williams 6-3, 7-5 to win the US Open Tennis Championship.
While Andreescu became the first player from Canada to win a major tournament, due to this defeat Serena Williams failed to attain her 24th Grand Slam singles titles to equal the record of Margaret Court.
Commenting on her victory Bianca Andreescu stated that she always wanted to be like Serena Williams: “I’m sure I’m not the only person that’s looked up to her. She’s an inspiration to many, many people, not only athletes. What she’s done off the court, too. She’s truly a champion. Above all, she’s very kind-hearted. She came up to me in the locker room, she said some really nice things, which I’ll cherish for a really, really long time…I’ve really strived to be like her.”
Serena Williams held: “We’re really similar, in terms of we both are fighters and we both are really intense”. While giving credit to Andreescu for playing well, Serena Williams said: “I honestly didn’t play my best today. I could have played better. That’s the only solace that I can take right now.”
According to details Serena Williams double-faulted eight times in all, including thrice on break point, part of her 33 unforced errors, nearly double her opponents’s total of 17.
Sylvain Bruneau, coach of Bianca Andreescu commenting on the match, maintained: “Things just start slipping away. You can feel that Serena is finding a little bit of rhythm. She’s finding herself. She’s getting more solid. The crowd is roaring, just getting into it. It’s very easy to say from the sideline, ‘Stay focused, blah, blah, blah.’ But this is overwhelming. There’s no other word…So for her to be able to just, like, reset at 5-all when it’s now anybody’s match, that’s pretty special, I think. Very, very special. It shows a lot.”
