Australian Open final LIVE: Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas latest score and updates

Djokovic points to his head after winning match point and there is a warm embrace with Tsitsipas at the net.

The emotion from there is extraordinary. Djokovic goes to his box and roars. He climbs up to meet his family and coaches, and breaks down into tears.

I cannot remember seeing this level of emotion from Djokovic before. He falls onto his back and is completely overcome.

As he goes back to his seat courtside he sobs into his towel. Huge, gulping sobs. It has to do with everything he went through last year, with the deportation from Australia.

He returned this year with a single goal – and he has now achieved it.

Djokovic has done it. What a comeback to Melbourne.

Tsitsipas finds the first serve. Djokovic nets on the stretch. 5-2

What a rally – but it’s Tsitsipas who prevails! Brilliant crosscourt exchange from both players. Tsitsipas attacks with the angled backhand, and Djokovic can’t return with the volley. 5-3.

Sublime from Djokovic! He attacks again, forcing Tsitsipas to retreat behind the baseline, before powering the forehand winner. 6-3

Championship point! Lots of noise still in the crowd.

Djokovic pulls the backhand off the Tsitsipas serve. One saved. 6-4.

Tsitsipas again! First serve in, and the Greek puts away the forehand! 6-5.

One more Championship point!

Djokovic clips the line with the forehand crosscourt, Tsitsipas goes long!

Djokovic gets off to the quick start, continuing his run on serve. 1-0

And then Djokovic attacks the Tsitsipas second serve! Inside out forehand winner, off the return, stunning! 2-0

Tsitsipas with the forehand error, it’s like the second set tiebreak is repeating itself! 3-0

Djokovic with great depth to the Tsitsipas backhand, and the Greek almost gives up on the chipped return. 4-0

Tsitsipas with the backhand into the net – Djokovic moves two points away. 5-0

There’s lots of noise in the crowd, Djokovic with the backhand slice that drifts wide. Djokovic looks up but he’s got a big lead. 5-1

Here we go: Tsitsipas serving to stay in the match. The Greek makes a good start on serve, but then Djokovic presses with depth to the Tsitsipas forehand.

Ace out wide from Tsitsipas.

40-15: Djokovic snaps the return and although Tsitsipas makes a sublime pick-up, he fires long.

Ace again! Another tiebreak…

Djokovic gets to 16 points in a row on serve, to get to 40-0.

Make that 17, as his serve out wide is parried into the net by Tsitsipas.

That’s four games in a row without dropping a point on serve.

Djokovic grinds down Tsitsipas on the baseline duel and gets to 30-30 on the Greek’s serve – just two points away from the the title.

Tsitsipas finds a first serve and puts away the forehand winner. Ace from Tsitsipas! Good hold.

Djokovic has dropped just two points on serve since he was broken at the start of the third. He holds to love for the third game in a row, helped by a couple of brilliant winners. The 35-year-old senses that he is almost there.

Tsitsipas replies with a solid hold of his own, and a reminder that he is not done yet in this match. We’re into the crucial moments now.

Djokovic has to pause ahead of his second serve as a baby cries in the crowd, but the level he has found now is much harder to disrupt. He crushes a forehand winner down the line for his second consecutive hold to love.