MELBOURNE – The Latest on Day 10 of the Australian Open (all times local): 11 p.m. Rafael Nadal’s bid for a record 21st Grand Slam title is in trouble.
He has been pushed to a fifth set by Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open quarterfinals. Nadal took the first two sets fairly easily to run his streak of consecutive sets won at major tournaments to 35.
But Nadal made some mistakes in a third-set tiebreaker and dropped it. Tsitsipas then took the fourth set, too. Nadal only once has lost a Grand Slam match after taking the first two sets.
That happened at the 2015 U.S. Open against Fabio Fognini. ___ 10 p.m. Rafael Nadal's Grand Slam set streak has ended at 35 after he dropped one against Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open