On Tuesday, the best tennis player in the world, the 22-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, won a place in the semi-finals of the Australian Open for the first time in his career, defeating local representative Alex De Minaur (ATP – 6th) in the quarter-finals with 7-5, 6-2, 6-1 in two hours and 15 minutes.
In the first set, De Minaur offered a strong resistance to Alcaraz, twice returning the ‘break’ from behind (0-3, 3-5), but in the 12th game he once again lost the serve and thus the set.
After winning the first part of the match in 58 minutes, Alcaraz simply overpowered and outplayed the 26-year-old Australian in the remaining 77 minutes, preventing him from reaching the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournaments for the first time in his career. played a total of seven quarterfinals.
The number one tennis player in the world reached his first semi-final at the Australian Open without losing a set.
I am very happy with the way I played all the matches. From duel to duel I raised the level of my game. People from my team told me to be patient, that the level I want to play at will come. I felt really comfortable today, I played great and that makes me proud. I’m really happy to be in the semi-finalssaid Alcaraz after the victory in which he seemed untouchable against the sixth player from the ATP rankings, reports Hina.
Third times the charm 🍀
After losing in the quarterfinals in 2024 and 2025, Carlos Alcaraz is into his first AO semifinal in 2026! pic.twitter.com/IXPtdwGkK2
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In order to reach his first final in Melbourne Park, his opponent will be last year’s finalist of the Australian Open, the German Alexander Zverev (ATP – 3rd), who defeated the 20-year-old American 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-6 (3) in the quarterfinals Learner Tien (ATP – 29th).
In their head-to-head matches, they are tied (6-6), but the German was more successful in matches on hard surfaces (5-3) and defeated Alcaraz in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open two years ago.
I think I will have to raise my game even more. I followed Saša throughout the tournament and I know that he plays excellent tennis, he makes a few mistakes, he is aggressive, I think he serves very well. I’ll have to be ready. We trained in the week before the start of the Australian Open and he beat me 7-6 playing great. We all have to be ready, my whole team. It will be a great fight. I’m looking forward to fighting him again here and getting a chance to fight backsaid Alcaraz.
On Wednesday, the quarter-final matches from the lower part of the draw will be played, in which the ten-time winner of the Australian Open will meet Novak Djokovic (ATP – 4th) and Italian Lorenzo Musetti (ATP – 5th) and double champion Jannik Sinner (ATP – 2nd) and American Ben Shelton (ATP – 8th).
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