Nadal has now won three of the four Grand Slam titles

"Just remember you're a great champion and you're one of the best in history and for sure you're going to match Sampras"
nadal to federer

Nadal recovered from his marathon semi-final to ruin Federer's attempt to equal Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam titles. The world number one has now won six Grand Slam titles - including four at the French Open and one at Wimbledon.

After two days of the longest match ever in the Australian open history, that lasted five hours, Nadal played with the last world number one, federer who lost the match in five sets, after what's still a surprice, federer make a desperately nervous start, dropping serve immediately in a woeful game of three wild errors and a double fault.

The erros behan to flow from the federer backhand and a fucused nadal made him play, near to the tittle with some confident serving. two match points arived when federer, on serve and with the two nervous nadal erros, kept the contest alive.

The game was over after four hours 23 minutes, and Nadal , the first spaniard to win the australian tittle, accepted the trophy from Rod Laver and said: " roger, I know exactly how you feel".