Novak Djokovic Vs Carlos Alcaraz LIVE, Australian Open: Djokovic received the final encounter between the 2 gamers within the gold medal match of the Paris Olympics
Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz LIVE, Australian Open: It’s a correct heavyweight conflict to resolve one spot within the males’s singles semi-finals of the 2025 Australian Open as 10-time champion Novak Djokovic faces third seed Carlos Alcaraz. The 37-year-old Djokovic, seeded seventh, is chasing his twenty fifth Grand Slam title whereas 21-year-old Alcaraz, already a winner of 4 Majors, is seeking to make it previous the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the primary time in his profession….Learn Extra
Alcaraz had misplaced within the quarterfinals of final 12 months’s Australian Open as properly, dropping to Alexander Zverev. Djokovic has a 4-3 edge in matches with Alcaraz and beat the Spaniard within the Paris Olympics last of their final assembly. Nevertheless, Alcaraz received their final two Slam encounters, the 2023 and 2024 Wimbledon finals.
Having appeared virtually invincible at varied factors within the final 5 years, it has been a relatively shaky highway to the quarterfinals in Melbourne this 12 months for Djokovic. He was pushed within the first spherical to 4 units by the unheralded Nishesh Basavareddy and by twenty fourth seed Jiri Lehecka compelled a tie-breaker within the final set of Djokovic’s fourth spherical match. On the finish of that conflict, Djokovic walked handed Jim Courier with out doing the customary post-match on-court interview as a protest towards “disrespect” proven by a senior Australian presenter working for the host broadcaster. There’s virtually at all times one thing greater than tennis each time Djokovic is concerned and it’s no totally different this 12 months.
Alcaraz is cautious that there’s nonetheless life within the ageing Djokovic but, on the veteran’s favorite court docket the place he has lifted the trophy 10 occasions. “When we are seeing him playing, he seems like he’s young again, it’s unbelievable. He’s in really good shape,” stated Alcaraz.
In the meantime, Djokovic stated he was anticipating a “big battle” towards the inheritor to Spanish legend and former fellow Massive 3 member Rafael Nadal. “We had some long battles, long exchanges. The kind of matches that I played against him remind me of my match-ups versus Nadal in terms of the intensity and the energy on the court,” stated the Serb.
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Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz LIVE, Australian Open: Hi there and welcome
Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz LIVE, Australian Open: Hi there and welcome to our reside weblog of mouthwatering Australian Open males’s singles quarterfinal between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz.