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‘Amazing’ Djokovic tops Nadal for record 7th Australian Open

Novak Djokovic was so good, so relentless, so pretty much perfect, that Rafael Nadal never stood a chance.

Djokovic reduced one of the greats of the game to merely another outclassed opponent — just a guy, really — and one so out of sorts that Nadal even whiffed on one of his famous forehands entirely.

Finals jitters for Rafa? #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/xs2LMyttQy

— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 27, 2019

In a remarkably dominant and mistake-free performance that yielded a remarkably lopsided result, the No.