Rafael Nadal’s Australian Open win was portrait of a true artist at work
I’ll give you a blizzard of numbers and statistics later but Rafa Nadal coming back from two sets down to win the Australian Open final was not a tennis match that you can reduce quite so easily. This was a performance on stage, a piece of astonishing theatre and something that touched those of us watching in a way that was far deeper and more profound than simply a reaction to a sporting contest.


