After 13 days of competition, the Australian tennis tournament expanded 2021 has found two names worthy for the final, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev.
The final will take place at 15:30 on February 21.
After only one day Nole defeated the “phenomenon” of the Karatsev tournament with a score of 3-0, Medvedev also won an easy victory against Tsitsipas with the same ratio.
Entering the final, Djokovic is of course a player who is more appreciated than the opponent when there are 17 Grand Slam titles in the past.
In addition, 8 Australian Open championships after 8 times he was present in the final and was the richest player in the tournament.
With Medvedev, this is the second time he has been in the Grand Slam final after the US Open 2019 and lost to Nadal.
However, before entering the match, according to the seed player No. 4, Nole was the person who was more pressured when he wanted to preserve the unbeaten achievement in the tournament and the caught up to the Grand Slam record of Nadal and Federer when they were 3 more titles behind them.
Medvedev shared: “I believe that I am not too pressure. Djokovic is different, he is unbeaten during the eight Australian Open finals, besides the pressure to balance the Grand Slam achievement with Nadal and Federer.
I just hope I will play and play the best tennis. I can beat big names if I play well. Djokovic is more experienced but there are many things to lose, “Medvedev said.
Meanwhile, Medvedev's generals in the semi -finals, Stefanos Tsitsipas also voiced support for the Russian player to win: “I would not be surprised if Medvedev won the championship, that was good for tennis.”
There are also an interesting statistics from the Tennis TV's Bastien Fachan writer: Since November 2020, Medevdev has defeated all top 10 ATP players, except for Roger Federer (“Express train” … not playing during this time due to injury).
Therefore, the results of the final are still very unpredictable at this time.
