Wawrinka tastes first blood; stuns Rafa to win Australian Open
27 Jan 2014 6:43 AM IST
‘It was a little bit worse in the first set. End of the first set, I start to feel worse,’ Nadal said about his injury.
‘Then at the beginning of the second was the key moment that I felt, during a serve in a bad movement, it’s very stiff, very bad.’ ‘But this is not the moment to talk about that, it’s the moment to congratulate Stan. He’s playing unbelievable and really deserve to win that title,’ Nadal added. After the eighth-seeded Wawrinka had won the first set, Nadal pulled up short in the third game of the second set, clutching at his lower left back.
The Spaniard left the court for treatment and could barely serve when he returned, Wawrinka racing through the second set in just 38 minutes, the top seed’s face regularly contorted in pain. Wawrinka appeared to lose focus early in the third set as Nadal lifted his level, breaking the Swiss in the second game and gradually increasing the velocity of his first serve from just 120km/h.
Wawrinka had chances to break Nadal in the ninth game, but netted a forehand to gift the top seed the third set. Wawrinka then produced two unreturnable first serves for 30-0, and sealed the biggest win of his career.
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