Et l'Espagnol fait la faute en coup droit.Roger Federer prend la tête de la cinquième manche après un jeu de service parfaitement maîtrisé. Although he did not have to deal with the world’s two leading players, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, who were upset in the first week, Federer did face top 10 opponents aplenty.He defeated four of them: Tomas Berdych, Kei Nishikori, Stan Wawrinka and — most important — Nadal, the swashbuckling Spanish left-hander who has so often thwarted Federer on big occasions but who failed to seal the deal on Sunday despite taking a 3-1 lead in the fifth set.That was perhaps when Federer’s tempered expectations helped him most.

Le Suisse va servir dans un instant, avec des balles neuves, pour un dix-huitième succès en Grand Chelem.Au terme d'un point exceptionnel, Roger Federer réussit le coup droit gagnant le long de la ligne pour aller chercher une nouvelle balle de break !Sur une deuxième balle anodine, Federer sort son retour de revers.Nadal sert au corps de Federer, qui commet la faute sur son retour. Crédit: Panoramic

Les compteurs sont remis à zéro.Nadal passe 89% de ses premières balles dans ce set.Nadal insiste avec son coup droit mais la balle rebondit sur la bande du filet avant de terminer sa course dans le couloir.Nadal décentre un peu sa frappe de coup droit et envoie la balle au delà de la ligne.

Roger Federer congratulates Rafael Nadal for his comeback and reaching the men's final, saying how he would have been happy to lose or draw the match with Nadal.

Nouvelle occasion de breaker pour Federer dans ce set, la cinquième !Rafael Nadal trouve une belle longueur de balle en coup droit pour prendre Federer de vitesse, qui frappe la balle avec la tranche de la raquette.Roger Federer calme le point avant d'accélérer brutalement avec son revers croisé. “You play the ball.

Mais son amortie en revers tombe dans le couloir pour trois fois rien.

This was Federer’s first official tournament after a long break because of knee problems in 2016. Australian Open 2017 men's final RESULT: Roger Federer seals Grand Slam No 18 as he beats Rafael Nadal in five sets in Melbourne. Here we stand in the finals. Et derrière, c'est la remontée fantastique de «Rafa».Après plus de six ans, Roger Federer et Rafael Nadal se retrouvent à nouveau en finale d'un tournoi du Grand Chelem. “Nevertheless, emotions poured out of me. A marginal favorite in this battle for the ages, Nadal rolled in the fourth set, never facing a break point, to send the match to a fifth and final set.The match, played at a relatively brisk pace, cooled considerably when Federer left the court for treatment. 1 There were, however, some mitigating circumstances that allowed Federer fans to dream.Federer, who beat Wawrinka in a five-set semifinal Thursday, had an extra 24 hours to recover for this final.

Le revers du Suisse lui apporte de nombreux points gagnants dans cette fin de match.Federer enchaîne bien son service avec un coup droit autoritaire.Federer surprend Nadal avec un revers décroisé le long de la ligne.Pour la deuxième fois consécutive, Roger Federer obtient des balles de break sur la mise en jeu adverse sans parvenir à conclure.

"Federer would have been happy to lose, accept a draw to Nadal (1:41) You don’t play the opponent. C'est le premier titre soulevé à ce moment-là par le nouveau No 1 mondial sur le gazon londonien.C'est le jour où Roger Federer nous a fendu le cœur.

"Against Rafa it's always epic," Federer said in a television interview. "I'm out of words," Federer said in his on-court interview, addressing Nadal. He went for it, and it was the right thing for him to do.”The result was a brisk five-setter by Nadal’s standards.

Watch extended highlights of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal's five-set thriller in the Australian Open 2017 Final. Il confirme son break et prend de l'avance dans le set.Nadal accélère en coup droit le long de ligne et déborde Federer. Federer became the first No.

se connecter / créer un compte Serving and coming to the net would prove critical for Federer, no more so than in the first set.Federer won 14 of the 15 points when he landed his first serve in during the opening set. Nadal est figé.Roger Federer conserve son break de retard mais comble une partie de son retard. "First of all, I can say congrats to Roger and all his team," Nadal said in his on-court interview. les autres sports de A à Z... Trois défaites à huit mois d'intervalle. Federer broke Nadal immediately and won six of seven games.Nadal, who wasn't moving with his usual abandon, broke Federer in the fourth set's fourth game. "I'm happy for you. "This one means a lot to me because he's caused me problems over the years.

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He managed it by defeating Nadal, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, to win the Australian Open for the fifth time.“You don’t know if they ever come back, these moments,” said Federer, who had not won a major title since Wimbledon in 2012 and who had not beaten Nadal in a Grand Slam final since Wimbledon in 2007.Federer played here with verve and precision but had to scrap his way through three five-set matches in the final four rounds, receiving plenty of treatment between duels. Roger Federer et Rafael Nadal s'affrontent pour la sixième fois de leur carrière.

This really did feel like gravy after all the major meals he has enjoyed through the years, and he stuck with the game plan he and his coaches, Severin Lüthi and Ivan Ljubicic, had discussed.“I told myself to play free,” Federer said. © L’Équipe 24/24 - 2020

Be free in your head. Crédit: Eurosport. His trophy collection includes five Australian Opens, one French Open, seven Wimbledons and five US Opens.Nadal was the fourth top-10 player to fall to Federer in Melbourne, following No. I’m the last guy to call a medical timeout.”The break did not help Federer start quickly in the fifth set.