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Carlos Alcaraz: Australian Open draw, history, recent results & more

  • Posted: Jan 15, 2026

Carlos Alcaraz is chasing his first Australian Open title, with which he would become the fifth man in the Open Era to complete the Career Grand Slam. Read all about the World No. 1’s results, records, statistics, and more, here. 

What is Alcaraz’s record at the Australian Open?

Since making his Australian Open debut in 2021, Alcaraz has tallied an 11-4 win-loss record at the tournament. 

What is Alcaraz’s best result at the Australian Open? 

Alcaraz reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open in 2024 and 2025.

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How far did Alcaraz advance at the Australian Open in 2025? 

Alcaraz lost 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 4-6 to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open quarter-finals in 2025 (Read more). 

Alcaraz’s Record at Grand Slam Tournaments

 Tournament  Win-Loss Record
 Australian Open  11-4
 Roland Garros  22-6
 Wimbledon  25-3
 US Open  24-3

How many Grand Slam titles has Alcaraz won? 

Alcaraz has won six Grand Slam titles. 

 Tournament  Year Won  Final Opponent
 US Open  2022  Casper Ruud
 Wimbledon  2023  Novak Djokovic
 Roland Garros  2024  Alexander Zverev
 Wimbledon  2024  Novak Djokovic
 Roland Garros  2025  Jannik Sinner
 US Open  2025  Jannik Sinner

Is Alcaraz in form? 

Past Five Results Overall

 Tournament  Result
 Nitto ATP Finals  Finalist, lost to Sinner 6-7(4), 5-7
 Rolex Paris Masters  R32, lost to Cameron Norrie 6-4, 3-6, 4-6
 Tokyo  Champion, defeated Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 in the final
 Laver Cup  Round Robin, lost to Fritz 3-6, 2-6, defeated Francisco Cerundolo 6-2, 6-1
 US Open  Champion, defeated Sinner 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the final

What is Alcaraz’s career record on hard courts?

Alcaraz holds a 142-42 win-loss record on hard courts, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index, for a winning percentage of 77.4 per cent. He ranks third among active players in winning percentage on hard courts. 

What is Alcaraz’s draw at the Australian Open? 

Alcaraz begins his Australian Open campaign against home favourite Adam Walton and could meet another Australian, Alex de Minaur, in the quarter-finals. He can only face rival Sinner if they both reach the final.  

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Davidovich Fokina downs Vacherot as title bid gathers pace in Adelaide

  • Posted: Jan 15, 2026

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina continued his push for a maiden ATP Tour title on Thursday evening at the Adelaide International, where he powered into the semi-finals.

The 26-year-old Spaniard carved a series of stunning angles and winners to defeat reigning Shanghai champion Valentin Vacherot 7-6(4), 6-2. Davidovich Fokina, who has reached five ATP Tour finals — including two in which he held championship points in 2025 — is rising to the occasion in Adelaide, where he is competing as the top seed for the first time in his career.

“I knew his serve was amazing,” Davidovich Fokina said of Vacherot, who hit 15 aces according to Infosys ATP Stats. “I tried my best to return his serve… It was like playing against [John] Isner. The key was to be focused and I [have] improved my level every game.”

Into his 12th semi-final, Davidovich Fokina will face fourth seed Ugo Humbert, who fired 32 winners en route to dispatching qualifier Alexander Shevchenko 6-0, 6-3 in just 57 minutes.

Earlier, second seed Tommy Paul continued his impressive form in Adelaide by defeating Aussie Aleksandar Vukic 6-3, 6-2 to reach his third semi-final at the ATP 250 event. Paul, the former No. 8 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, missed the final three months of the 2025 season due to a lingering foot injury and returned last week in Brisbane, where he fell to big-serving Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in the first round.

“I’m just happy to be back out here. It was a long end of the year for me, and to be back in Australia playing great tennis, I’m really happy,” said Paul, who also reached the Australian Open semi-finals in 2023. “All the tournaments in Australia, they do a good job of keeping most of the courts the same speed, and they seem to match up with my game.”

Paul will next face Tomas Machac, who beat Jaume Munar 6-4, 6-4 to advance to his first semi-final since winning his only ATP Tour title in Acapulco last February. The eighth-seeded Czech takes a 2-1 Lexus ATP Head2Head lead into his clash with Paul, who won their most recent meeting in Rome last year.

Machac arrived in Adelaide having not won a tour-level match since his Shanghai opener in October, but he is yet to drop a set across three dominant victories this week.

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Federer talks Alcaraz-Sinner & ‘one of the most important points in my career’ on AO return

  • Posted: Jan 15, 2026

Even in a career as packed with highlights as Roger Federer’s, some moments still stand out.

The Swiss icon was a six-time champion at the Australian Open, where on Thursday he spoke to media ahead of his appearance at the opening ceremony of the 2026 edition of the hard-court major. Yet for a number of reasons, Federer identifies his fifth title in Melbourne as the one that stands out the most.

“I guess it has to be 2017 just because of the way it ended in the finals against Rafa.” recalled Federer, who was aged 35 and had not played a tour-level match for six months when he arrived at that year’s Australian Open. “It was surreal. I came here with no expectations… I was maybe going to be happy with the quarters. I think Seve [Luthi], my coach secretly, Ivan [Ljubicic], believing I could do it. I was like more, ‘Yeah, no, not at 17 in the world, not having played in six months, all that’.

“I played really well at the Hopman Cup. Came here feeling good. Still I knew I had a tough draw, had to go through some big guys to get anywhere close to winning. I think just the way the finals played out kind of makes it maybe one of the best special ones I’ve ever had in my career.”

Federer overcame his great rival Rafael Nadal in a five-set championship-match thriller to cap his 2017 run at Melbourne Park. The match included a 26-shot rally, with Nadal serving at 3-4, deuce in the fifth set, which Federer claimed with a stunning forehand down the line. It was a shot that has lived long in the memory of tennis fans.

“I’ve seen it many, many times,” said Federer, who also won the Melbourne crown in 2004, 2006-07, 2010 and 2018. “All my friends send it to me. It’s on the algorithm of people I know. It [keeps] on coming through. It’s a nice point, maybe one of the most important ones I’ve had in my playing career. What a match, what a celebration, what a moment.”

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A new Lexus ATP Head2Head rivalry that has etched itself into the tennis landscape in a similar manner to Federer vs. Nadal is the one between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. The pair has won the past eight major singles titles between them and contested the final three Grand Slam title clashes of 2025, including a remarkable five-set battle at Roland Garros during which Alcaraz saved three championship points in the third set before triumphing.

“The rivalry with Alcaraz and Sinner is a great one,” said Federer. “They play incredible tennis. I think that French Open final was unreal. I think the game, not that it needed it, but it was great that we had it. I feel like for a second, for a moment, the world stood still in the sporting world and watched towards Paris, what was going on in that epic fifth set because it could have ended much, much sooner obviously for Jannik.

“Then all of a sudden it ended up in this most crazy fashion. Maybe one of the greatest games we’ve ever had in our sport. It’s good we still live off that momentum. Then they backed it up by playing against each other in all those other finals. Everybody is trying to keep up and they’re trying to pull away. What we’ve seen in terms of their progression in the last years, it’s been wonderful. I practised with those guys a little bit. They’re incredible ball strikers. There’s obviously more to come.”

The No. 2 in the PIF ATP Rankings, Sinner arrives at the Australian Open this year as the two-time defending champion. Meanwhile World No. 1 Alcaraz has the chance to become the youngest man to complete the Career Grand Slam (winning all four major titles) if he can lift his maiden trophy at Melbourne Park.

“[Carlos] knows about it. It’s like Rory [McIlroy] going for the Masters. Those things are tough,” said Federer, when asked about Alcaraz’s prospects. “At the end of the day, the momentum shifts after the first round. Then it’s point-for-point mentality. It’s true, in order to complete the career Grand Slam already now would be crazy.

“So let’s see if he is able to do ‘crazy’ this week. I hope he does because for the game, again, that would be an unbelievable, special moment. He has another hundred and whatever players that say, ‘We don’t agree with those plans’. They might try to stop him.”

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Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles

  • Posted: Jan 15, 2026

Thanasi Kokkinakis announced his withdrawal from the Australian Open singles event on Thursday.

“Unfortunately after speaking with my team and doctors I have made the decision to pull out of the @AustralianOpen singles,” Kokkinakis wrote on Instagram Stories. “After an incredibly tough year this was the event I was looking forward to the most but I’m not ready yet. I’m doing everything I can every day to be back to 100%.”

Kokkinakis played his first singles match in nearly a year last week at the Adelaide International, where he defeated Sebastian Korda in a final-set tie-break.

But throughout the match, the Australian struggled with his right shoulder on the back of pectoral surgery last February. He withdrew from Adelaide on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old hopes to compete in doubles at Melbourne Park. He won the title with Nick Kyrgios in 2022.

“We will still try and step out for the doubles and have some fun,” Kokkinakis wrote. “Thank you to everyone who supports me.”

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