MELBOURNE, Australia—Rafael Nadal got to 21 first, breaking the men’s record for most Grand Slam singles titles and doing it the hard way by coming back from two sets down to beat Daniil Medvedev in an almost 5.5-hour Australian Open final. Nadal was broken when serving for the championship for the first time at 5–4 in the fifth set, but he made no mistake two games later by serving an ace to earn three championship points and converted it on the first attempt. The 35-year-old Spaniard now has one more major title than Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, his long-time rivals in the so-called Big Three. With the 2–6, 6–7 (5), 6–4, 6–4, 7–5 win, Nadal also became just the fourth man in history to win all four of the sport’s major titles at least twice. Nadal and Medvedev packed a lot of drama into the final that started Sunday …
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