Superstar tennis player Rafael Nadal did not have a smooth first round at the Australian Open on Monday. 

Everything halted during the opening set of Nadal's match against Jack Draper when the 22-time grand slam champion went to his court-side seat to switch tennis racket.

"It’s this one for the stringer, not that one," Nadal could be heard explaining to the umpire.

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Nadal then emphasized how badly he needed his particular racket.

"I need the racket back! It is not this one. I need the dampener and everything," he added, referring to the small rubber piece some players put between the strings. The device is known for helping reduce the impact players feel when they hit shots.

The Spaniard had requested one of his rackets be re-stringed, but the ball boy took the wrong one. At one point, Nadal turned to Draper to exclaimed "the ball boy took my racket." 

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Later in the match, Nadal was not unhappy when the lights turned on as the sun still shined inside the stadium. "Now it is bothering me a lot," Nadal told the umpire while pointing up to the floodlights. "The combination of lights."

After the match, Nadal called the racket incident a "funny situation."

"Normally, I have the number of the rackets under control so I said I need the stringer, but I need the stringer for the other racket," Nadal explained, per Eurosport.

"So [the ball boy] picked the racket I was ready to play with. But no problem at all."

Nadal went on to defeat Draper in four sets and advance as he targets a third Australian Open title.

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Nadal won the second grand slam of his career in Melbourne last year by outlasting Daniil Medvedev 2-6 6-7 6-4 6-4 7-5. "Last year had been one of the most emotional tournaments of my tennis career, no doubt about that," Nadal noted.

By winning his first-round match, Nadal continues the 26-year streak of a defending champion making it past the Aussie Open's first round.

Nadal is the top-seeded men's play at this year's tournament. Next up, he will face Mackenzie McDonald in the second round.

The strange scene involving Nadal comes on the heels of Australian player Nick Kyrgios' decision to back out of the tournament due to a knee injury.

Kyrgios was hopeful of playing, winning the tournament in his home country, and starting the 2023 season in grand fashion. "Bad timing. Injuries are part of the sport," he told reporters Monday via Wide World of Sports in Australia. "I'm devastated obviously, it's my home slam."

Gov. Ron DeSantis says he's seeking to protect Florida from the "biomedical security state," by permanently banning COVID-19 vaccines and masks. 

"It required us over the past few years to stand against major institutions in our society: The bureaucracy, the medical establishment, legacy media and even the President of the United States who, together, were working to impose a biomedical security state on society." DeSantis said while speaking at the Todd Herendeen Theater in Panama City Beach. 

If approved by lawmakers, DeSantis' efforts will permanently restrict the COVID-19 vaccine mandates and mask rules in schools and prevents public and private employers from hiring and firing individuals based on their vaccine status.

"When the world lost its mind, Florida was a refuge of sanity, serving strongly as freedom's linchpin," DeSantis said. "These measures will ensure Florida remains this way and will provide landmark protections for free speech for medical practitioners."

U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo joined DeSantis at the press conference in Florida's panhandle which also featured comments from a number of people who shared their sentiments.

DeSantis asserted that those under 40 who get booster shots are more at risk from boosters than they are from COVID-19, while doctor's related stories of adverse reactions that they attribute to the vaccine.

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"This is the first time in history where we are using this technology widely in human beings," Florida's Surgeon General Ladapo said, referring to the mRNA vaccines. "You’re telling people to put it in children, and you’ve never even shown the children to gain from it in terms of an actual help. That’s the land of crazy. Florida is the land of sanity."

DeSantis said part of the protections the state will enact include forbidding any mandatory masking in the state and allow medical practitioners the ability to "speak the truth" and to "choose evidence over narrative."

DeSantis outlined policies that he said will:

The governor also shared that these policies will protect medical freedom of speech including:

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Previous COVID-19-related policies that were approved by the Florida Legislature in 2021 are set to expire on July 1, 2023, DeSantis' hopes to enshrine the COVID-19 vaccine and mask protections for the future. 

"We need to lead with this by making all of these protections permanent in Florida statute, which we're going to do in the upcoming legislative session," DeSantis said.

Following DeSantis' press conference, House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell promptly called a press conference stating that Governor DeSantis and his administration was "the No. 1 peddler of misinformation from the anti-vax establishment."

Driskell noted that DeSantis was a champion for the Covid-19 vaccine when it first became available, and that only roughly one-third of Florida nursing home residents are up-to-date on their vaccination status.

Driskell emphasized that "no one ever promised total immunity, but those vaccines do lessen the chance of infection, and they increase the likelihood of a milder case if you do get sick."