Rafael Nadal v Novak Djokovic Extended Highlights | Australian Open 2019 Final 

Arguably the greatest Djokovic’s performance in a Grand Slam Final

And this when Nadal was seeded No.2 in the tournament and defeated no. 4 seed Tsitsipas by 6:2, 6:4 and 6:0 in the previous round. Indeed a remarkable result that day for Novak. Maybe one of the highest standard ever seen on hard courts.

The day Nadal decided to never face Djokovic outside clay again 😅

I can understand the crowd reaction since they weren't expecting Nadal to lose in this manner, but atleast appreciate the brilliance of his opponent. What ball striking and accuracy from Novak. He was on a mission.

By that time I considered Djokovic one of the greatest of all time. At the end of this final I thought: "Maybe he is THE Greatest". Wimbledon 19 Final and 2023 Season confirmed me that this guy is the Undisputed GOAT.

Nadal at this tournament was looking so dominant n scary... But Novak just squashed his game so easily...

This historic final match will not forgotten.💪🐐❤️🔥🇷🇸

9:36 what a return point!

The most one-sided Grand Slam finale ever, considering two goats battle, that's unbelievable. And Nole showed similar performance and dominance against Alcaraz in the ATP Finals semis in Torino this year, when he's in a zen state of mind

Masterful performance! Flawless tennis from Djokovic.

Watched this live. Could hardly believe it. Possibly the greatest slam final performance of the 21st century. Djoko's the undisputed king of AO.

I remember this very clearly, Nadal was looking so sharp and better than Djokovic for the whole Tornament. Seeing him go down in 3 sets was unbelievable for me.

Djokovics backhand was on crack that match 🤯

Masterpiece. A symphony of placid beauty !!!!!

Outstanding tennis class by the GOAT 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Absolute domination. The Greatest of all time. One of his greatest performances ever. Truly the Goat.

The Best of the Best in the World. Well done Djokovic 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸👌

The greatest athlete who ever lived, every sport included. 1 Djokovic 2 Jordan 3 Woods 4 Brady 5 Ali 7 Gretzky 6 Messi You get the point

best performance of all time

34 winners , 9 unforced errors ...AGAINST NADAL ..u kidding me!

I remember how hyped everyone for this match only for it to be an absolute blowout

This is a true great final between two amazing phenomenal players!!not ridiculous final between Sinner vs Medvedev!!😂😂😂

The 2012 marathon was an aberration. Djokovic rallied but didn't didn't move to the net when the opportunities presented themselves. Becker taught Novak how to take charge during rallies by curtailing them by being more aggressive. This match shows that apart from RG Novak knows how to defeat Nadal with relative ease

Watching this in 2023 and it's really noticeable how much Novak has bulked up in the last few years! His upper body is transformed.

The GOAT debate is so over.

I’m here to make you look at 2:08 … just look at the moment Nadal hits the winner and where Djokovic was, he was at the opposite corner and almost made it, THAT’S CRAZY! Nadal’s shot was not high, so it was even faster than normal, nevertheless Novak almost returned it. That is how much of a GOAT he is, and now we know why he’s the best defender-attacker in Tennis History, both men or women.

Thank you, AO, for making a fair Highlights Video… nowadays ATP would make highlights of a match where Novak won and choose to show more points from the loser than from Djokovic.

No shame in getting demolished by GOAT

That last game was execution

Sublime game by the greatest

This and AO 2016 vs Federer are his two best performances ever

Remember, Nadal is an all-time-great. Djokovic at his best is just something else, truely. As a Rafa fan I have to concede Novak is the absolute, this I knew since 2019.

What a dominant display from Djoko

Novak has not lost a match, against Nadal, off clay for almost 11 years. This is an astonishing fact.

its a good thing Nadal isnt obsessed or frustrated with Tennis and such...

The most perfect clinical match ever in grand slam final history as executed by Djokovic against a great opponent .

That's why Nadal avoid Djoker everywhere outside of the RG. Didn't win a single set vs Novak in 10 years on hard!!!

Total dominance.

A beatdown. I was surprised how quickly it ended.

Rafa: GAHHH Novak: waa heh Rafa: GAHHH Novak: waa heh Rafa: GAHHH

Nadal is my favorite male tennis player, but this is when I knew Novak was the GOAT - this was comprehensive

Some say that Nadal is superior to Nole because of his superiority at Roland Garros, but the same thing happens in Australia and even worse, because Nadal has never been able to beat him here.

Yet today Novak is on top of the tennis world while Nadal is broken down.

It's like Djokovic knew every single shot position, before Nadal even played it. He seemed to be able to predict the future in this match. A scary performance. So light on his feet and elastic in stretch. The best thing about this rivalry, is how many times, it swung in the others favour over the years.

Couldn’t wait at the net for a second Rafa? Really needed to shake the chair umps hand then walk around the net, common courtesy to wait at the net especially when your opponents celebration is not long…

Exactly what I want to see from this channel

The day that Rafa decided he would rather pretend he is injured or lose to Ronald McDonald in 2nd round instead of facing Djokovic outisde of clay

I feel bad for Rafa fans, like c'mon Djoker, have some mercy

Real djokovic in this time when he come back after 2 years slump. He looks like very thin and sharp.

What a backhand from Nole, amazing performance

The match that made Nadal want no piece of Novak on a hardcourt ever again.

TO steal a line from David Foster Wallace, watching that match was like watching an extremely large and powerful predator get torn to pieces by an even larger and more powerful predator.

Destroyed Nadal 😢

I mean, I know these are extended highlights, but the large amount of “highlights” shown of Nadal is kinda disrespectful to Djokovic considering the perfect tennis he played 🤷🏼‍♂️

德约你永远是最棒的

A total demolition job

NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS THE UNDISPUTED GOAT 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Really hope these two are in the same 16th in the upcoming AO, so Djokovic can actually play Nadal off clay again. Ideally they play first round since I'm not sure Nadal would make it far enough otherwise.

*Djoker, the G.O.A.T., destroyed the king of clay court. The day when Nadal was crushed by Nole in a Grand Slam final.*

2011 Djokovic was a menace and was seeing as one of the upcoming greats , 2015 Djokovic was the most dominant and complete of him and this version had the greatest season of tennis history of all time ever (far better than 2006 Federer and 2010 Nadal), 2019 Djokovic was the most scary version of him as he was mentally at his peak ( we all know the Wimbledon final). Now 2023 Djokovic is a legend and the greatest player of all time and still competing and being at no.1

Djokovic was the very Djokobot itself. He made no mistake against Nadal.

The greatest quality Rafa has is even if he reaches closes to a straight-set loss, he does not lose hope, never says die...

PERO...PERO JUGANDO ESTOS DOS JUGADORES EL TENIS SE VUELVE UN ESPECTACULO.👍

Djokovic flatter more penetraring hitting has always been more suited to hard than Rafa who spins the forehand to much and Novak smacks that high spin on the rise. Rafa needs to adjust his forehand follow through and put less spin.

Rafa himself acknowledged during the presentation of RG 2020 that he was thrashed when he met Djokovic in a Slam Final on the previous occasion....

Clinical performance in just 2 hours. No wonder Rafa avoided Roger and Novak on non-clay tournaments post 2014.

This must be why Rafa has been avoiding Djokovic outside of clay for over five years now

CLASH OF TITANS ❤

IMPRESSIVE

I cannot believe that Australian Open was given the right to air an assassination.

hope they could face each other in an advanced round next tournment

Nadal's short steps and fine adjustments while he prepares to return helps him with uneven bounces on clay, where the ball often deviates from its initial trajectory. Novak's stretched postures and ability to hit very well while he is acrobatically stressed helps him on an almost geometrically even hard court, where the ball will always come where it should.

Idemo nole ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Anytime I need motivation to beat my rivals, I watch this.

Nadal really didnt offer much to turn the match around. Novak hardly broke a sweat. All Nadal did was hitting the ball harder and harder and with more spin but they were too predictable. Djokovic knew when he was gonna hit..

I think Djokovic had an appointment later that day. He didnt want to stay long on the court😮😮 Tennis lesson

Absolutely destroyed Nadal

このジョコビッチは隙がなかった

I didn't really expect Nadal to win, but it wasn't very nice to lose like this, he must have been so angry with this match that he took a very heavy revenge in RG 2020.

NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

GOAT

Djokovic monstrueux😱😱

NOVA UN TENISTA MUY INTELIGENTE Y DURO DE ROER, LO CONSIDERO EL MEJOR!!!

Nadal has won sets in the last ten years on hard court against Novak like me, ZERO. Imagine ten years and not a single SET, shame!!! 24,40,8,7,402+ and more coming!!!

When Novak is determined to win...u can see it in his eyes... top class agression & accuracy

Nadal is really afraid to face djokovic on hard and grass courts. Love to see a djokovic and nadal clash in AO 2024 or Wimbledon 2024. 😂😂😂😅

La Masacre de Melbourne

Te amo nole...eres menos querido por eso te quiero. Cómo jugaste ese dia mamita... seguí haciendo historia.

6:35 조코비치가 지고있을 때에도 상대방에게 엄지를 들어올린 적이 있나요?

05:01 Eric bana ❤❤

Novak seemed to be in a flow state here. He was floating across the court and almost every shot of his was fast and deep. If you play tennis, you know it and feel it when you hit that flow state. It doesn't always happen although that is what every player tries all the time to achieve. Novak is incredibly comfortable on this court and when he reaches this state, no opponent can stand a chance unless they too can hit a similar state. And that's when you have a highest quality match which goes on to become a classic. Rafa played very well but I felt he was too static in his approach by continuing to go for angles which Novak knew was coming and was so good at handling that. Like Toni said after the match, Rafa must have started going more to the center so that Novak was forced to construct angles himself from the center and not from the incoming angle of the ball which would have caught him off balance at times and given Rafa some breathing space to construct a point his own way later. But when your opponent is Novak and you see him in such a flowing state, it is so intimidating and plans don't work. Some other performances that I can think of from what I have seen where it feels like they are in a flow state was seeing Roger in Indian Wells against Rafa again. Blew him away in straight sets. And as Roger said in so many interviews and in his book, 2017 was a year where Roger felt so happy and fulfilled when he won the AO 2017. It showed in his performance that year where he was in flow almost every match. And also, Rafa in 2020 RG final where he returned the exact favour to Novak and hit a flow state on his favorite surface and arena.

Now I suggest to all Djokovic fans to watch 2020 Roland Garros Men's singles final ! cheers !

The GOAT is clearly Djoker, no question about it

Идемо , Ноле!❤

Even at his peak, Nadal was not easy to win Djokovic, even at clay.

Does anyone know who the commentators are?

One of the most complete HC performances of all time.

If you are watching nadal va Novak at AO you dont need to scroll to the end to check the result🐐

King

This match right here is one of those examples why Djokovic vs Nadal isn't the greatest rivalry. I've said this since years, those two had the most intense rivalry, but never the best, the difference is too much in most of their clashes on Clay or Hard. The best rivalry is Djokovic vs Federer, hands down. This one is the only one in that Big 3 Era where both beat each other at every Slam despite the age difference (Yeah Rafas only one year older than Novak, but this guy was a beast earlier on and better than later.) Would have love to see Federer vs Djokovic from the start in every Slam like they did in the USO (where Fedal never met - still criminal to this day) five years in a row. Djokovic lost too much in Wimbledon and Paris before 2011, Federer in NY after 2011 (probably a sign of life after playing the same guy each year). Fedal rivalry is the most iconic one, but not the best as well. Too much difference in that one too. Way too many matches on Clay, probs to Roger, always reached the final stage there unlike Rafa and Wimbledon or the ATP Finals, but he should have definitely won some (MC/Rome 06, RG 11). Murray was in that position instead and always got schooled by the Swiss except the Olympics, where Federer was done after that SF against DelPo. Of all people it was always Federer that Murray had to overcome. Andy would have loved to play Djokovic instead on Centercourt, there's no doubt, but each and everytime the luck (bad) of the draw decided. That's how it is. Best rivalries per Slams and ATP Finals in the greatest Era ⬇️ AO: Djokovic vs Wawrinka FO: Nadal vs Djokovic WIM: Federer vs Nadal USO: Federer vs Djokovic WTF: Djokovic vs Federer