MOSCOW, Jan 25 Spaniard Rafael Nadal beat Canada's Denis Shapovalov in 1 /4 finals of the Australian Open Tennis Championship, which takes place in Melbourne. The meeting ended with a score of 6:3 6:4, 4:6, 3:6, 6:3. The duration of the match was 4 hours 8 minutes. Before the start of the second set, Shapovalov expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the referee. The athlete went to serve and complained that Nadal was delaying the start. He approached the judge and called for the Spaniard to be punished, but was refused. After that, the tennis player said: «You guys are all corrupt.» At the end of the first game of the second set, when the right to serve passed to Nadal, Shapovalov defiantly extended his arms, again indicating that the Spaniard was delaying the start of the draw. After that, Nadal called Shapovalov to the net to talk with his opponent and settle the conflict. During the match, the 35-year-old Spaniard made eight aces, 11 double faults, made 28 unforced errors and converted three out of seven break points. Shapovalov's stats are 20 aces, five double faults, 51 unforced errors and two break points out of eight.
