A wild stat shows how unlikely Stefanos Tsitsipas’ Australian Open comeback against Rafael Nadal was
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Stefanos Tsitsipas is the No. 6-ranked men’s tennis star in the world and is the No. 5 seed at the Australian Open, so an upset of Rafael Nadal isn’t that far-fetched.
But it was the manner in which Tsitsipas took down the tennis legend on Wednesday at Rod Laver Arena, sending him to the semifinal: he came back from an 0-2 deficit in sets and won.
That’s right: in a Grand Slam, down 0-2, he won. How many times has that happened in Nadal’s unbelievable career? How about just two times in Grand Slams and three times overall?
Yep, that is pretty unreal.
It took four hours and five minutes for Tsitsipas to win, which exhausted me just writing that.
What. A. Comeback.
2021 could be this athlete’s first and last chance at the Olympics
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