TENNIS SCORES. Immense Nadal wins the title in New York after an epic final

Rafael Nadal tops Daniil Medvedev 7-5 6-3 5-7 4-6 6-4 in the final in New York on Sunday.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Nadal won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 3^rd (1-2) game, The Spaniard broke back in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 12^th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

2^nd set.

There was not much difference between Rafa and Daniil in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Spaniard conquered in the 6^th game (4-2) before winning the set (6-3).

The Spaniard wasted a good opportunity to break Daniil in the 4^th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

3^rd set.

Medvedev won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 5^th (2-3) game, Daniil broke back in the 6^th (3-3) and in the 12^th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

4^th set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Russian conquered in the 10^th game (6-4).

5^th set.

The Spaniard won the set after he broke the Russian in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. Daniil tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (5-3) game. Nevertheless, Nadal didn’t make any concession anymore before winning the set 6-4.

Rafael failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.

The Russian lost the 5^th game (3-2) when he was serving and leading 40-0.

A crucial moment of the match was when Rafael won 4 consecutive games in the 5^th set to change the scoreline from 1-2 to 5-2.

Statistics

After this encounter, the head to head between Nadal and Medvedev is 2-0 for Rafael.

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