The win put Nadal one clear of Federer and world number one Djokovic on the all-time Grand Slam titles race.

Factbox on Spain's Rafael Nadal

How Nadal surpassed the haul of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

Security officials promptly made a human shield around the players as some others dragged the person

Medvedev will be glad to play the role of dream wrecker once again.

'I'm happy to have the chance to try to stop, one more time, somebody from making history.'

Daniil Medvedev will play Rafael Nadal for the Australian Open title on Sunday after a stirring victory over Greek fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semi-final on Friday.

A couple of months ago, the 35-year-old Spaniard was worried that he might never return to the court again.

Netherlands' Kingma gets four-match suspension for ball-tampering.

Images from Day 9 of the 2022 Australian Open, at Melbourne Park, on Tuesday.

Denis Shapovalov said his Australian Open quarter-final opponent Rafael Nadal "100%" receives preferential treatment from officials and benefited from favouritism during the Spaniard's five-set victory on Tuesday.

Images from Day 7 of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday.

Images from Day 6 of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Saturday.

IMAGES from Australian Open matches played at Melbourne Park on Friday

Images from the first One-Day International between South Africa and India, in Paarl, on Wednesday.

Images from Day 3 of the 2022 Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday.

Images from Day 2 of the 2022 Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Images from Day 1 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday.

Djokovic will be nowhere near the centre court after losing his bid to overturn a second visa cancellation.

Djokovic had been favourite to win a 10th title at Melbourne Park and claim a 21st Grand Slam crown but the Serb now faces being deported from Australia.

The reaction has been swift across the world to Novak Djokovic's visa has been cancelled for a second time by the Australian government.

Manchester City took a major step towards retaining their Premier League title with a 1-0 win over second-placed Chelsea on Saturday, opening up a 13-point lead at the top of the table for Pep Guardiola's side.

His relations with the BCCI having reached its lowest ebb, it can be safely concluded that Virat Kohli has 'retired hurt'.

Unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic won the right to take his fight against deportation from Australia to a Federal Court on Saturday after the government cancelled his visa for the second time over COVID-19 entry regulations.

The Australian government cancelled Novak Djokovic's visa for a second time on Friday, saying the World No 1, unvaccinated for COVID-19, may pose a risk to the community.

World No 1 Novak Djokovic began practice on Friday, January 14, 2022, to pursue a record 21st Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in Melbourne, which begins on Monday, January 17.

Images from Day 3 of the third Test between South Africa and India, in Cape Town, on Thursday.

World number one Novak Djokovic has been "playing by his own rules" and has put his bid for a 21st Grand Slam title at risk by not following Australia's COVID-19 vaccination requirements, world number four Stefanos Tsitsipas said on Thursday.

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke's office said he was still considering whether to use his discretionary power to cancel Novak Djokovic's visa.

At one stage, police deployed pepper spray.

Serbia's parliamentary speaker, Ivica Dacic, said on Monday he is concerned tennis star Novak Djokovic could still be deported from Australia despite winning his court case over his visa and vaccination exemption.

World number one Novak Djokovic was released from Australian immigration detention on Monday after winning a court challenge to revive his bid to win a record 21st Grand Slam title at the upcoming Australian Open.

Rafael Nadal called Novak Djokovic's COVID-19 vaccination controversy in Australia "a circus" and joked that he would prefer that the world number one tennis player didn't play at the upcoming Australian Open.

Australian authorities scrambled on Sunday to file a legal defence of their decision to bar entry to tennis world number one Novak Djokovic over his COVID-19 vaccination status, as the Serbian superstar spent his fourth day in immigration detention.

Djokovic, a vocal opponent of vaccine mandates hoping to win his 21st Grand Slam at the Australian Open, has been holed up since Thursday in a modest Melbourne hotel after his visa was cancelled due to problems with the exemption.

Australia's Nick Kyrgios said he supported vaccination "but how we are handling Novak's situation is bad, really bad". The Australian Open begins on January 17, but the multi-millionaire Djokovic is constrained from training as he sits in a hotel where one Iranian detainee said he had found maggots and mould in the bread.

Tennis World No. 1 Novak Djokovic spent Orthodox Christmas in Australian immigration detention on Friday as his lawyers fought a government decision to remove him from the country that could scupper his shot at a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam.

World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic was denied entry into Australia on Thursday amid a storm of protest about a decision to grant him a medical exemption from COVID-19 vaccination requirements to play in the Australian Open.

Djokovic, who has won nine titles at Melbourne Park, including the last three, confirmed on Tuesday that had received a vaccination exemption to allow him to bid for a record 21st major title at the Australian Open, which starts on January 17.

Officials said he was one of a 'handful' of successful applicants among 26 people who sought exemptions.