Published on January 26, 2024 at 09:52. / Modified on January 26, 2024 at 5:51 p.m.
The main person concerned doesn’t like to look back on the past, but sometimes you have to know how to get past Stan Wawrinka’s modesty. And then, it’s as much about us as it is about him in this story, which goes back exactly ten years and which we remember with a force and a clarity that would be enough to upset those whose birthdays we regularly forget…
On January 26, 2014, Stan Wawrinka won the Australian Open by beating Rafael Nadal in the final in four sets (6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3), after defeating Novak Djokovic in the quarter-final who remained on a streak of 25 consecutive victories in Melbourne (2-6 6-4 6-2 3-6 9-7). Ten years later, the Vaudois remains the only one to have beaten the two most successful players in the history of tennis in the same Grand Slam tournament. But at the time, he became the second Swiss winner of a major title after Roger Federer, who already had 17.
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