On January 30, the final match in men's singles at the Australian Open will take place, in which Spaniard Rafael Nadal will play with Russian Daniil Medvedev. The forecast for this match is given by the former third racket of the world Nadezhda Petrova.
After the scandalous deportation of world number one Novak Djokovic from Australia, few doubted that Daniil Medvedev would be in the final of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, and the Russian did not disappoint. The successful movement on the tournament grid of 35-year-old Rafael Nadal, who returned to tennis after a solid break, came as a surprise to many.
It just so happened that for the finalists, the most difficult matches turned out to be at the quarterfinal stage. Nadal broke Shapovalov's resistance in only more than 4 hours, and Medvedev played for almost 5 hours at all, heroically pulling out the match with Auger-Aliasim after losing the first two sets.
In terms of freshness, Daniil should have an advantage over Nadal, since the young body still recovers faster. And the motivation of the Russian should be off the scale, because he can become the first racket of the world for the first time. Nadezhda Petrova suggests not to invent original bets in this final, and just play for Medvedev's victory.