• World No 1 saves match point and wins 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-6 (4)• Nadal admits: ‘I was super lucky’
Rafael Nadal arrived in
London with a new wife and an old abdominal injury, his mood turning angry and dark when he had to deny that either were in any way linked to each other or his form on the court, a suggestion that hovered on the outer edges of good taste and credulity. He was not a happy Spaniard.
However, the boyish smile returned with interest when he came from 1-5 down in the third set to beat the languid young
Russian Daniil Medvedev in one of the great comebacks of his long career.