Djokovic wins AO crown

It's a superb seven. Novak Djokovic overshadowed the six Australian Open titles won by Roy Emerson and Roger Federer to take sole responsibility for men's singles record at Melbourne Park with a resonating 6-3 6-2 6-3 to prevail upon Rafael Nadal on Sunday night.

The world No.1 has now won the last three Grand Slam titles in progression, outperforming the trophy pulls of both Emerson and his venerated image Pete Sampras with his fifteenth major simultaneously. In any case, more than the numbers, it was the way of this triumph – equivalent amounts of outstanding and explanation – that underscored his authority here at Rod Laver Arena.

Now and again Nadal was totally diverted from his diversion by the world No.1, bumbling out of the squares in the midst of a heap of blunders in the opening set, left second-speculating as the encourages developed longer in the second, and beaten by a string of drop shots as the Serb broke right off the bat in the third before dashing to the completion subsequent to enduring a late rally from the Spaniard.

No shot exemplified Nadal's inconveniences more than the forehand, which represented 15 of his 28 blunders have been the bedrock of his hurried to the last. Conversely, Djokovic was essentially perfect, making only nine mistakes altogether and terminating 34 winners to Nadal's 21.

"I need to mull over the voyage of the most recent a year, in light of the fact that similarly as Rafa has experienced a medical procedure, I've had damage myself the most recent few years," said Djokovic, who had a task on his troublesome elbow not long after his fourth-round misfortune here in 2018.

"I had the medical procedure precisely a year prior. What's more, to stand nowhere, before you today, having won this title and three of the four Slams, is genuinely stunning.

"Marian (Vajda), thank you for returning to my group," he included, paying tribute to the instructing group whose arrival at the midpoint of the 2018 season started his races to the Wimbledon and US Open titles and the world No.1. At that point, he turned his contemplations to spouse Jelena and kids Stefan and Tara back in Europe.

"I trust they've been viewing – in any event before the match they said they'd watch," he clowned. "Trophies are considerably increasingly exceptional when I have somebody so dear, so unique in my life to impart this too. They are my dearest individuals on earth by my two siblings and my folks."

Having played the longest last in Open time history here in their solitary past gathering, tussling for almost six hours in 2012, Djokovic traveled to triumph in only two hours and four minutes on Sunday night.

The best seed burst out to a 3-0 lead inside 10 minutes as Nadal, wearing a restless articulation and fizzling his forehand on numerous occasions, lost 13 of the initial 14 points. Given his own fast fire begins at Melbourne Park, having dropped only six diversions in his last four opening sets, it was a stun to see him made to look so drowsy.

In any case, that is Djokovic's splendor, his ability to kill and afterward assault weapons that crush for all intents and purposes each other rival. As Nadal combat to dial in the forehand, the world No.1 followed it, slipping level crosscourt strikes into – and now and again past – the Spaniard's fearsome wing.

Nadal jumped on the load up in the fourth diversion and was stung energetically at 1-4 when a dead let line appeared to be set to abandon him no possibility. However, he hared forward, scooped the roll together, and rushed after Djokovic's hurl volley to turn and fire an unplayable strike. Indications of life from the Spaniard in the midst of the nerves, which may be had their influence in an air-shot on a direction forehand in the following amusement.

Djokovic facilitated to the opener yet met sterner opposition right off the bat in the second, as the match returned to the examples of old. Nadal had achieved this last behind a one-two punch strategy: enormous serving, greater forehand. Be that as it may, with Plan A disappointing him, he began drawing in the Serb in longer mobilizes.

For a period it worked, until the point that a shot come back from Djokovic at 2-2 drew the blunder and left Nadal at 15-30. In the following point, he was alive to a drop shot yet cut the net with the answer, scrambling to get a racquet to the Serb's pass just to send the ball long.

The break pursued, as completed a second as Djokovic moved two sets clear before breaking for a 2-1 lead in the third. And after that, right when the match appeared an inescapable result, the Serb got a forehand to blessing Nadal his first break purpose of the match at 3-2.

The shot came as fast as it went, Nadal netting a strike before Djokovic nailed a short forehand into the corner and catching up with a winner of a similar wing for 4-2. Further weight pursued at 4-3 when Nadal hauled him from corner to corner and drew a forehand blunder on the hurried to achieve deuce, just for the net string to play against him yet again as Djokovic's volley on amusement point fell dead for a winner.

Fortunes had no influence in the last diversion, nonetheless, as Djokovic hit with annihilating immaculateness, smashing three forehands to achieve coordinate point on the Nadal serve. One goes with a striking winner from the Spaniard, however, on the second Nadal let go wide to bring his heaviest Grand Slam last thrashing to an end.