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Rafael Nadal lost to Fernando Verdasco
in the first round of the Australian
Open, an unprecedentedly early exit at
Melbourne Park for the 14-time Grand
Slam winner and a reversal of their
epic, 5-hour, 14-minute semi-final
here six years ago.
Fernando Verdasco rallied from a 2-1
deficit to win the last two sets,
recovering a break in the fifth as well,
and claim a 7—6 (6), 4—6, 3—6, 7—6
(4), 6—2, only his third victory in 17
matches against his fellow Spanish
lefthander.
Nadal won his only Australian title in
2009 after beating Verdasco in the
semifinals. His only other first—round
exit in a major was at Wimbledon in
2013.
Verdasco went for everything on his
ground strokes, ripping 90 winners
against only 37 for Nadal as he worked
to the extremes to unsettle his former
No. 1—ranked rival.
Read more: Nadal knocked out of Australian Open: The Hindu - Mobile edition
in the first round of the Australian
Open, an unprecedentedly early exit at
Melbourne Park for the 14-time Grand
Slam winner and a reversal of their
epic, 5-hour, 14-minute semi-final
here six years ago.
Fernando Verdasco rallied from a 2-1
deficit to win the last two sets,
recovering a break in the fifth as well,
and claim a 7—6 (6), 4—6, 3—6, 7—6
(4), 6—2, only his third victory in 17
matches against his fellow Spanish
lefthander.
Nadal won his only Australian title in
2009 after beating Verdasco in the
semifinals. His only other first—round
exit in a major was at Wimbledon in
2013.
Verdasco went for everything on his
ground strokes, ripping 90 winners
against only 37 for Nadal as he worked
to the extremes to unsettle his former
No. 1—ranked rival.
Read more: Nadal knocked out of Australian Open: The Hindu - Mobile edition
