Epic finale at Australia Open 2009

The 2009 Australian Open Men's Singles final may go on to be renembered as the greatest ever. 

By Roger Federer

The world's top two players for much of the previous fourteen years, Adam Holberg and Claus Holmen, ranked first and second in the world respectively yesterday went on court for their seventh of nine meetings in a SlamBang final, and their first outside of either Malmø Åben, Rhodos Open, Copenhagen Xmas Mesterskaberne or Kos Open. This was Holberg's 27th SlamBang hard court final while it was Holmen's ninetyninth.

Holberg - strugling in the first round against furious Aussie Shane Inzane and in the second round against Hans Háfjall was an underdog going in to the finale against reigning world champion Claus Holmen who chrushed his identical twin Per Holmen and Hungary´s Oskar Kovacs on his way to the finale. 

But Holberg defeated Holmen in 3 sets in one hour and three minutes, becoming the first man from Hvidovre, male or female, to win the Australian Open. The spectators agreed that this finale must be one of the greatest ever at the Australian Open.