'I enjoyed the fight, I enjoyed the emotions'

MELBOURNE: After becoming the first men's player to win 21 Grand Slams, Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal said that he has plenty of energy left to come back to the Australian Open in 2023.

Nadal defeated Daniil Medvedev to win his second Australian Open title and go past Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic to bag 21 Majors.

"A-month-and-a half ago I might have said this would be my last Australian Open, but now that's plenty of energy to keep going. I'll do my best to see you next year. I was repeating to myself during the whole match, 'I lost a lot of times here having chances'. I just wanted to keep believing till the end. Just fight, just keep belief on trying to find a solution," the official website of Australian Open quoted Nadal as saying.

"2012, 2017, 2014 with the injury, too, I have been in that position couple of times in my career here in Australia. I feel very lucky. At the same time, I fought to come back to the tour and to give myself a chance to keep playing tennis. I was not ready physically for these kind of battles, honestly. I didn't practice enough to be ready for it," he added. Agencies

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