MELBOURNE, Australia —Rafael Nadal moved within one match of a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam men’s singles title by defeating Matteo Berrettini of Italy, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
The sixth-seeded Nadal will face the No. 2 seed Daniil Medvedev in Sunday’s final.
Medvedev also won in four sets on Friday, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, But Medvedev’s victory was considerably more tempestuous than Nadal’s. After losing his serve in the ninth game of the second set and receiving a code violation for a visible obscenity, Medvedev shouted angrily at chair umpire Jaume Campistol for most of the changeover because he believed that Tsitsipas’s father was illegally coaching his son from the player box.