Stefano Tsitsipas turned and won - barked at Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open

World runner-up in tennis, Rafael Nadal, had not lost a set before the quarter-finals, initially looked to have an equally easy journey through the quarter-finals and won the first two sets.

In the third, the players kept their own serve game and it had to be decided in a tiebreak, which the Greek Tsitsipas won (7-4).

In the fourth, Tsitsipas broke Nadal's serve once, and in the fifth, he broke until 6-5 to then serve the match at home.

The fifth-seeded Tsitsipas beat Nadal for the second time.

When they last met, in the Australian Open 2019, Nadal won the semi-final.

Now Tsitsipa's got revenge and is in its second semifinal in the Melbourne tournament.

"Is speechless"

Tsitsipas is only the third to succeed in turning 0-2 into a victory against Nadal.

- I am speechless, have no words that can describe what happened.

It's unbelieveble.

I succeeded, I fought and took out everything I had on the track, says the Greek in the victory interview.

- I was very nervous at first, but in the third set everything started to work.

Today I focused on keeping calm, that's why I succeeded.

Now I will take an ice bath and get ready for the semifinals.

I look forward to playing good tennis there.

Russian meeting

There he will face Daniil Medvedev, who defeated his Russian compatriot Andrei Rublyov in three straight sets in the quarterfinals.

In November, Daniil Medvedev took his biggest victory so far in his career, when he won the ATP playoffs.

The quarter-final against compatriot and close friend Andrei Rublyov became an unexpectedly one-sided story.

Not mainly because Rublyov underperformed, but because Medvedev played on another level.

- It is never easy to meet friends, but we are such competition heads that it does not matter.

You are only focused on winning, focused on reaching the semifinals of a grand slam, Medvedev said in the victory interview in Eurosport's broadcast.

"Very proud"

He impressed himself by winning in three straight sets, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2, in the pressing cabin.

- This was definitely one of the best matches I have played, not only recently but last year.

- I'm probably one of the first players who manages to make Andrej this tired after a match, and I'm very proud of that. He played really well and still I managed to win in three straight sets without any tiebreak.