2009 Australian Open – Men's singles final
| Rafael Nadal (1) vs. Roger Federer (2) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | Sunday, 1 February 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Tournament | Australian Open | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chair umpire | Pascal Maria | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 4 hours 23 minutes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rafael Nadal | |||||||||||||||||||
| Roger Federer | |||||||||||||||||||
The 2009 Australian Open Men's singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's singles tournament at the 2009 Australian Open. It was contested between the world's top two players for much of the previous four years, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, then ranked first and second in the world respectively. It was the pair's seventh of nine meetings in a major final, and their first outside of either the French Open or Wimbledon. This was Nadal's first major hard court final, while it was Federer's ninth and at the time he was yet to lose in a major hard court final.
Nadal defeated Federer in five sets after 4 hours and 23 minutes, with the match finishing after midnight, becoming the first Spaniard, male or female, to win the Australian Open. The match was lauded as one of the greatest ever played at the Australian Open, and came seven months after the pair contested the 2008 Wimbledon final, a match widely regarded as one of the greatest-ever.