Djokovic and Nadal will battle once again in the final of a Grand Slam tournament, as they shoot for the 2019 Australian Open title. One of the greatest rivalries in tennis history will get another chapter added to it on Sunday, when Novak Djokovic faces Rafael Nadal in the final of the 2019 Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year. The final will be broadcast on ESPN beginning at 3:30 a.m. ET (live streaming via WatchESPN ). The match will be played on Sunday evening in Melbourne, but it will be the early morning in the United States, as the eastern time zone is 16 hours behind where the matches are being played. It’s one of their less-familiar meeting places as they’ve only faced each other at the Australian Open once before, with Djokovic winning. But the rivalry goes so much deeper than that. It’s one of the most active rivalries all time, with the two having faced each other a total of 52 times. Djokovic leads the series, 27-25, including an 18-7 mark on hard courts (which is the surface of the Australian Open), compated to Nadal’s 16-7 mark on clay courts (the two are tied on grass courts at 2-2). They played each other twice in 2018, with Djokovic winning in the Wimbledon semifinal in five sets, while Nadal took their semifinal match at the Rome Masters, a clay court. In their history, there was a period where Djokovic won 11 of 12 matches, from 2013 to 2016. Djokovic is the top seed, while Nadal is the second se Source: Breaking News
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