Novak Djokovic heads into Sunday’s Australian Open final unbeaten on eight previous occasions in the title match, but knowing he will need to be at his mental and physical best to overcome red-hot Russian Daniil Medvedev
The Serbian world number one has had to battle injury and extract new levels of determination just to get to the final.
An abdominal injury in the third round put him on the brink of an early exit and left him unable to train between matches.
But after his semifinal win over another Russian Aslan Karatsev, Djokovic reported he felt fitter than at any time during the Melbourne fortnight
On Sunday night he will face an entirely different challenge against “…
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