{"id":416645,"date":"2026-01-16T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:05:08","slug":"alcaraz-swiatek-relaxed-about-career-slam-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416645\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz, Swiatek, Relaxed about Career Slam \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek may have said it best when conversation at her pre-tournament press conference at the Australian Open turned to winning the Career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you guys are thinking more about it,\u201d Swiatek said. \u201cI can hear that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the six-time Grand Slam champion, who inched closer to becoming the 11th woman to manage the lofty feat when she won her maiden Wimbledon title last year, the goal is to keep improving and playing at the highest level. The rest of the accolades and milestones, should fall into place if she does that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly since the beginning of the year, there are many people coming to me and talking to me about [the Career Slam],\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m really just focusing on, like, day-by-day work. This is how it\u2019s always been for me. This is how I actually was able to achieve the success that I already have, just focusing really on grinding, match by match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning a Grand Slam is tough. Like a lot of things have to come together to do that. Yeah, it\u2019s a tough tournament. So I have, like, no expectations. Obviously it would be a dream come true. This is not, like, my clear goal that I wake up with. I\u2019m thinking more about how I want to play, what I want to improve, like, day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is a little more open about his desire to become the 9th \u2013 and youngest \u2013 man to achieve the honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously completing the career Grand Slam is something amazing to do, be able to be the youngest that have done it before, you know, is even better,\u201d he said, after asked about his comments about trading a Roland-Garros title with Sinner, so that they both could have the Career Slam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would trade Australia for Roland-Garros with Jannik,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/2011912226160943585\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alcaraz joked<\/a>. \u201cI would trade that, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He doubled back on those comments when asked which of his titles he would trade for an Australian Open title in his press conference saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know. It is a question that I got to think about it, not just a quick answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer, making the rounds ahead of his appearance in the Battle of world No.1 exhibition in Rod Laver Arena this weekend, said that he\u2019s pulling for Alcaraz to do it, but he knows first-hand how tricky the pressure can be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know how it is,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cHe knows about it. It\u2019s like Rory going for the Masters. Those things are tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, like I say, the momentum shifts after first round. Then it\u2019s point-for-point mentality. But it\u2019s true, in order to complete the career Grand Slam already now would be crazy. So let\u2019s see if he is able to do \u2018crazy\u2019 this week. I hope he does because for the game, again, that would be an unbelievable, special moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has another hundred and whatever players that say, We don\u2019t agree with those plans. They might try to stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek may have said it best when conversation at her pre-tournament press conference at the Australian Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-416645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}