The match started with Rafa looking every bit like an ageing but champion athlete. On the other hand, Medvedev looked like a stoner college kid who was so high he accidentally made his way on to the court instead of his seat.

Is it just me, or did Rafael Nadal sweat so profusely in the early stages of the game he quite literally looked like the human incarnation of the Pokemon world’s Muk.

After all the surgeries and a relatively advanced (OOOLLLD) 35 year age for an athlete, Nadal still appeared in amazing shape. His face, not so much. It looked haggard and skeletal. Seriously, he looked like Skeletor from the He-Man series.

Nadal looked a lot better towards the fifth set. Maybe because he had no fluids left to sweat out anymore. Or maybe he got a facelift in the suspiciously long interval between the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth set.

By the time the game ended, both players had noses that looked so red under the blistering Australian sun, it seemed more likely that they had been out binge drinking rather than in a five-set thriller for the ages.

The people in the crowd were so into it, the chair umpire had to tell them to calm down at almost every point. Sometimes promising punishment that never came, at other times pleading plaintively, he seemed reduced to a primary school teacher saying “I will throw you out of the class”. Or characters from the Mahabharat scene in the Bollywood movie Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron saying “Shaant gadadhari bheem” – compose yourself warrior Bheem or at times “Yeh kya ho raha hai” – what is happening here?

The crowd turned pretty partisan, especially after Medvedev complained a few times about a few sections cheering for his unforced errors. In the third and fourth sets, it appeared at times to be like Neo fighting a crowd of Agent Smiths.

While Nadal had crowd support, Medvedev had the support of the match predictor throughout. Starting at 66:34, the match predictor had him as high as 96:4. Even when Nadal was up a break in the fourth – the match predictor had it 90:10 for Medvedev. The fix was in. Except someone forgot to tell Nadal.

In the end, after one of the most famous victories in tennis history, Nadal smiled like Sushmita Sen after winning Miss Universe. Go ahead GOAT. You can smile like a goat if you want after that win.