who won the men's 2009 australian open
2009 Australian Open – Men's singles 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[1] 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.
Novak Djokovic Djokovic started the year by playing the Hopman Cup with fellow Serbian world No. 3 Jelena Janković. While he won all his round-robin matches, the team lost 1–2 in the final to the second-seeded American team of Serena Williams and Mardy Fish. At the Australian Open, Djokovic reached his second consecutive Grand Slam final without dropping a set, including a victory over two-time defending champion Federer in the semi-finals.[70] By reaching the semi-finals, Djokovic became the youngest player to have reached the semi-finals in all four Grand Slam events.[71] In the final, Djokovic defeated unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in four sets to earn his first Grand Slam singles title.[72] This marked the first time since the 2005 Australian Open that a Grand Slam singles title was not won by Federer or Nadal.[72]
Craig MacTavish He is notable as the last NHL player to not wear a helmet during games.[1][2][3]
2017 Australian Open Roger Federer won his eighteenth men's singles Grand Slam title by defeating Rafael Nadal in a five-set final. It was his first major title since 2012 Wimbledon and a rematch of the 2009 Australian Open final, which Nadal won in five sets. Serena Williams overcame her sister Venus in the women's singles final, surpassing Steffi Graf to become the player with the most major wins in the women's game in the Open Era.