MOSCOW, Jan 23 Russian tennis player Karen Khachanov on his Instagram thanked the fans for support at the season's first Grand Slam tournament — the Australian Open (Australian Open), and said that he tried his best in all matches. Rafael Nadal with a score of 3:6, 2:6, 6:3, 1:6. Nadal reached the quarter-finals of the tournament on Sunday, beating France's Adrian Mannarino in the fourth round. «That's applause for the Australian public. Thank you for the atmosphere! I tried my best, but it wasn't easy against a great champion like Rafael Nadal. I will take this experience and I will become even stronger,» the athlete wrote. Khachanov has never gone beyond the third round at the Australian Open, the best result of the 25-year-old athlete, who ranks 30th in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings, at the Grand Slam tournaments is to reach quarter-finals of Roland Garros (2019) and Wimbledon (2021).
