2009 Australian Open – Men's singles final
 Rafael Nadal (1) vs.  Roger Federer (2)
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| Date | Sunday, 1 February 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tournament | Australian Open | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 2009 Australian Open Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2009 Australian Open. It was contested between the world's top two players for much of the previous four years, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, then ranked first and second in the world respectively. It was their seventh (out of nine) meeting in a Grand Slam final, but their first outside of either the French Open or Wimbledon, followed by their most recent meeting at the final of the 2017 Australian Open. This was Rafael Nadal's first Grand Slam hard court final while it was Roger Federer's ninth and at the time he was yet to lose in a Grand Slam hard court final.
Nadal defeated Federer in five sets in four hours and twenty-three minutes, with the match finishing after midnight, to become the first Spaniard, male or female, to win the Australian Open. The match was lauded as one of the greatest ever at the Australian Open and it was yet another high quality match between two of the greatest players of all time, almost seven months since their epic 2008 Wimbledon final.
Pascal Maria was the chair umpire for the match. Rafael Nadal won the coin toss and elected to begin the match receiving.
Federer began the match serving and immediately gifted a break of serve to Nadal with a double fault and three unforced errors. Both men settled in well from there in the next game where Federer went ahead 15-30 after a forehand winner. Nadal fought back to deuce after saving a break point. Federer earned a second break point after three deuces, but couldn't cash it in after a backhand error. Nadal then hit a forehand long to give Federer a third break point. The game lasted for ten minutes before Federer broke Nadal with a forehand winner to level the opening set at 1-1. Federer held serve with another forehand winner to get to 2-1. Nadal held comfortably to reach 2-2. In the fifth game at 30-30, Nadal's forehand was out but the linesman didn't call it. Federer challenged and the Hawkeye review showed the ball was long, giving Federer 40-30 instead of break point to Nadal. Federer held at deuce to go ahead 3-2.
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