{"id":17743,"date":"2026-02-01T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17743"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:05:46","slug":"australian-open-2026-carlos-alcaraz-completes-career-grand-slam-by-beating-novak-djokovic-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17743","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Carlos Alcaraz completes career Grand Slam by beating Novak Djokovic in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Carlos Alcaraz won a pulsating Australian Open final to become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam &#8211; ending Novak Djokovic&#8217;s latest attempt to land a 25th major title in the process.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz, 22, immediately collapsed on the court in celebration after clinching a 2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5 victory in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite his disappointment, Djokovic showed his sportsmanship by clambering over the net to warmly hug Alcaraz on creating a slice of history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he knows might not earn any better opportunities to underline his place as the greatest player of all-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spanish world number one Alcaraz struggled in the opening exchanges as 38-year-old Djokovic used his nous to dominate his younger opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Alcaraz found more rhythm from the baseline and outlasted the Serb fourth seed to claim his seventh major title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz is only the ninth man to win all four Grand Slam tournaments &#8211; the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Australian #Open #Carlos #Alcaraz #completes #career #Grand #Slam #beating #Novak #Djokovic #Melbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz won a pulsating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}