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Jannik Sinner’s magnificent month: After off-colour start to season, Italian completes Sunshine double, chasing No 1 status from Carlos Alcaraz | Tennis News

Jannik Sinner’s magnificent month: After off-colour start to season, Italian completes Sunshine double, chasing No 1 status from Carlos Alcaraz | Tennis News

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5 min readNew DelhiMar 30, 2026 07:01 PM IST The competitive balance in the most important rivalry of present-day men’s tennis has been off-kilter over the past year. Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have separated themselves from the chasing pack, but the former has separated himself from the latter, too. With six wins out of eight completed matches against him, Alcaraz has had the Italian’s number. With significant improvements in his game over the last six months, he started 2026 by storming to the Australian Open title and becoming the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam. If the biggest events in the sport started to feel a bit like the ‘Alcaraz show,’ his rival spent all of March reminding the world why that may not be the case. He may not have got his revenge on Alcaraz – the duo are, surprisingly, yet to face each other this year – but with his routine 6-4, 6-4 demolition of Jiri Lehecka in the Miami Open final on Sunday, Sinner capped off an imperious month …

‘Bit too old… to care about these things’: Daniil Medvedev on whether he can catch Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz | Tennis News

‘Bit too old… to care about these things’: Daniil Medvedev on whether he can catch Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz | Tennis News

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3 min readUpdated: Mar 15, 2026 12:42 PM IST Daniil Medvedev handed Carlos Alcaraz his first defeat of 2026 in the Indian Wells semi-final, prevailing with a 6-3, 7-6(3) scoreline over the world no 1 from Spain. After stopping the Alcaraz juggernaut (where the Spaniard went unbeaten in 16 games and won titles at Australian Open and Doha), Medvedev was asked if he felt that he could catch up to the leading lights of the current generation, Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. To this, the 30-year-old Medvedev had a simple response. “I don’t care too much about these things, because I’m already, first of all, a bit too old. I’m not Next Gen anymore,” said Medvedev. Medvedev’s reward for overpowering Sinner is a clash against Sinner in the final. “I had a tough year last year, so even ⁠more perspective now ⁠that I need to do my best, that’s it. Jannik and Carlos are far better than all ⁠of us. Only ‌one match we can beat them … they are so ​good. They are so much …

Can Iga Swiatek create history at Australian Open by becoming the 11th woman to complete the Grand Slam? | Tennis News

Can Iga Swiatek create history at Australian Open by becoming the 11th woman to complete the Grand Slam? | Tennis News

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She plays with the weight of history behind her; triumph at Melbourne Park would make her the 11th woman in the game’s history to complete the Grand Slam: the elusive achievement of winning at least one title at each of the four Majors. Swiatek, as all pros in her position ought to do, coolly played it off. “I’m still young. I have plenty of time to do different things and achieve different goals in my career,” she said during her pre-tournament press conference. “I really don’t need to put that pressure on myself to do something in the next two weeks.” Since Don Budge achieved the feat over 90 years ago, only 18 singles players have managed the Grand Slam. 2026 sees the prospect of three more doing so, and while Jannik Sinner will have to wait for the French Open, both Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz can break the barrier in Melbourne itself. In a sport obsessed with pitting landmarks against landmarks, this is the real marker of greatness. The magnitude of reaching it, and …

Australian Open: ‘A chapter of life that has to end’ – How Carlos Alcaraz described the surprise split with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero | Tennis News

Australian Open: ‘A chapter of life that has to end’ – How Carlos Alcaraz described the surprise split with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero | Tennis News

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World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz split with longtime coach Juan Carlos Ferrero took the tennis world by surprise. Neither of them has been too forthcoming on the reasons for the separation – even though the older man had hinted at some contract issues – but in his first comments on the separation, the 22-year-old described the development as “a chapter of life that has to end.” Ferrero, himself a former top-ranked player in the world and a Grand Slam champion, had guided Alcaraz since he was 15, and played a pivotal role in him winning six major titles. There was speculation that the former French Open champion didn’t want to end the relationship, but Alcaraz said on Friday that “closed this chapter in mutual” last month. The Spaniard is in Melbourne for the Australian Open, which starts on Sunday, where he will try to complete a career Grand Slam, becoming the youngest man in history to accomplish the feat. “We both are still friends, good relationship. But we just decided like this. I’m really grateful …

Australian Open: Carlos Alcaraz vows to ink a kangaroo if he completes Career Grand Slam | Tennis News

Australian Open: Carlos Alcaraz vows to ink a kangaroo if he completes Career Grand Slam | Tennis News

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One Grand Slam Carlos Alcaraz is yet to win is the Australian Open. If he manages to win the ongoing Grand Slam event Down Under he will be the youngest ever to win the Career Grand Slam and ninth overall. The 21-year-old has the habit of celebrating the host cities by commemorating his major trophies with ink. When he won the Roland Garros in 2024 he tattooed the Eiffel Tower and when he won his first major in US Open in 2022 he inked the date and Wimbledon with a strawberry in the same year. When asked how what tattoo would he go for if he were to win the Australian Open 2025 he said, “It’s gonna be a kangaroo. That’s my idea. The only thing that I miss is to lift the trophy here.” Early blip but comes through Alcaraz had an early blip but he did manage to win at Melbourne Park this week for a 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2 victory over 33rd-ranked Nuno Borges of Portugal on Friday in the third …

Australian Open: ‘I think the less time I spend on court…it’s going to be better’, says Carlos Alcaraz after 81-minute win over Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka | Tennis News

Australian Open: ‘I think the less time I spend on court…it’s going to be better’, says Carlos Alcaraz after 81-minute win over Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka | Tennis News

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21-year-old Carlos Alcaraz has started his hunt for the fifth Grand Slam in emphatic fashion after winning the opening round in the 2025 Australian Open as he breezed past Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 in 81 minutes in 2nd round. “I think the less time I spend on court at the Grand Slams, especially at the beginning of the tournament, it’s going to be better. Physically I’m feeling great, but I just tried to be focus and spend as little time as I can,” Alcaraz said. Serving has been on the four-times Grand Slam champion’s mind at Melbourne Park after tweaking his motion in the off-season. “I’m really happy with the serve today. It’s something that I worked in the pre-season,” the Spaniard said. He was not thrilled with its performance in his first round win against Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko where he landed less than 60% of his first serves and had six aces. Wednesday’s figures were more encouraging for Alcaraz, who more than doubled the ace count and won 32 out of 36 …