Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal in Australian Open final

In the wake of missing the second 50% of last season with a knee damage, the Swiss star returned style by winning the Australian Open Sunday and turning the tables on adversary Rafael Nadal with a holding, 6-3 triumph in a little more than 3 1/2 hours. The conflict denoted an uncommon rebound for the twosome, both of whom have combat late wounds and are presently more established than a large portion of their adversaries.

Rafael Nadal, left, salutes Roger Federer after the match. "I don't think both of us trusted we would have been in the finals at the Australian Open... four TicketExecutive SPORTS , five months back, and here we remain in the finals," Federer said.

Be that as it may, Federer was clearly much the more joyful. "This is wonderful, however it's still much better, the (other) trophy," Roger Federer rejects chance for dramatic retirement after Australian Open triumph Nadal said as he took a gander at the runner-up trophy.

It was the 35-year-old Federer's first significant title since Wimbledon in 2012, his first in Australia since 2010, and it switched the norm against his enemy from Spain. Both players were coming back from amplified cutbacks — Federer for six months after Wimbledon with a harmed left knee; Nadal for a few months with a harmed left wrist — and were seeded seventeenth and ninth individually.

It's been an alternate most recent six months, I didn't know I would make it here however here I am — we made it," Federer said in the wake of tolerating the trophy from Australian awesome Rod Laver, who loans his name to the primary stadium at Melbourne Park. "I would have been upbeat to lose as well, to be completely forthright. The rebound was impeccable as it might have been. Tennis is an intense game, there's no draws. In the event that there would have been one, I would have been glad to have it today and impart it to Rafa, truly."

Federer had lost six of the past eight Grand Slam finals he'd played against Nadal, Australian Open 2017: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams to set Grand Slam record and had just beforehand beaten the left-gave Spaniard in 11 of their 34 matches. Nadal stays parallel second with Pete Sampras on the unsurpassed rundown, with the remainder of Nadal's 14 majors coming at Roland Garros in 2014.