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Novak Djokovic defeated Carlos Alcaraz in an Australian Open quarter-final showdown, keeping alive his latest bid for a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam singles title.
Djokovic denied 21-year-old Alcaraz’s hopes of becoming the youngest person to complete a career Grand Slam, although Alcaraz could still achieve the feat at the 2026 Australian Open.
Top seed Janic Ciner, who won the Australian Open and US Open last year.
He may break a tie with Nicola Pietrangeli for the most Grand Slam singles titles by an Italian.
Australian Open: Women’s draw
Djokovic, 37, is a 24-time Grand Slam singles champion with 10 titles in Australia.
She is tied with Australia’s Margaret Court for the most Grand Slam singles titles in history and one shy of Court’s record 11 titles in Australia (Court’s seven crowns came in the amateur era in the 1960s).
In 2024, Djokovic did not win any of the four Slams for the first time since 2017. He won his first Olympic gold medal though.
No. 4 seed Taylor Fritz, the US Open runner-up, was upset by 38-year-old Gael Monfils in the third round. Fritz has been the highest-seeded American man at the Slam since Andy Roddick was ranked No. 3 at 2007 Wimbledon.
Four of the top 11 seeds (all aged 26 to 28) lost in the first two rounds to players aged 18 to 20: No. 5 Daniil Medvedev to American Lerner Tien (aged 19; in five sets, four hours and 49 minutes and finished 2: at 54 am); No. 6 Kasper Ruud to Czech Jakub Mencic (19); No. 9 Andrei Rublev to Brazil’s Joao Fonseca (18) and No. 11 Stefanos Tsitsipas to American Alex Michelsen (20).
In 2025, the Olympic and Paralympic sporting events will determine the favorites for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games.
