Here’s Tumaini Carayol’s report, live from Melbourne. It will be a final of firsts, with Barty in the final of her home slam and Collins in the final of her first slam.
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The women’s final sorted, we go to the men’s semis tomorrow: Nadal v Berrettini and Tsitsipas v Medvedev. Some quotes here from Rafa Nadal’s press call. The 21st slam is in sight.
I am just enjoying playing tennis. Of course I want to keep winning, but more than because I want to achieve or I want to have more than the others, it’s because I love what I am doing. I want to keep doing this as long as possible. Of course the last six months there have been a lot of doubts if I would be able to keep going. But now I feel good. We are in a position that we won a tournament, we are in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, so that’s amazing for me. In terms of what can happen in the future, honestly I really don’t care that much. I don’t believe that my future happiness is going to depend on if I achieve one more grand slam than the others or if the others achieve more grand slams than me.”
