{"id":451943,"date":"2026-02-01T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:41:10","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-v-novak-djokovic-in-mens-singles-final-junior-girls-singles-final-junior-boys-singles-final-day-15-scores-schedule-draw-times-how-to-watch-rafael-nadal-joel-edgerton-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451943\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz v Novak Djokovic in men\u2019s singles final; junior girls singles final; junior boys singles final; day 15 scores, schedule, draw, times, how to watch, Rafael Nadal, Joel Edgerton, Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Ricky Ponting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz held a press conference in Spanish after speaking to reporters in English.<\/p>\n

This is what he said in Spanish, translated to English.<\/p>\n

On what the Australian Open title means to him:<\/p>\n

It means a lot to me to lift this title, this trophy in Australia. It was something I\u2019d been looking for, for a long time. Every year that I came, my objective was to try to win and lift the trophy. It hadn\u2019t happened, I\u2019d never got past the quarter-finals. [I was] even leaving here with a good taste in my mouth about the tennis I was playing, but still things didn\u2019t happen and I couldn\u2019t get past the quarters. But once the pre-season started, we put a lot of work into it, a lot of mental work, thinking about this tournament, having things very clear in what we had to do, and the truth is that it\u2019s been three very positive weeks. Three weeks in which I\u2019ve seen a lot of improvement, from the first day to the last, which is what I\u2019m most proud of.<\/p>\n

\"Carlos<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz raises his fist in celebration.Credit: Eddie Jim<\/p>\n

On his team:<\/p>\n

Trusting in my team, who have always been the key to calming things down when, especially the first matches, I wasn\u2019t entirely happy and they\u2019ve always \u2026said that I had to have patience, that the level I wanted was going to arrive.
[They said] that everything I had to do was keep myself mentally strong and, above all, accept the negative things … In the end we\u2019ve ended up playing great tennis and lifting a title, which is a dream come true.<\/p>\n

On future title plans:<\/p>\n

Right now that I have this one Carlos Alcaraz v Novak Djokovic in men\u2019s singles final; junior girls singles final; junior boys singles final; day 15 scores, schedule, draw, times, how to watch, Rafael Nadal, Joel Edgerton, Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Ricky Ponting, I\u2019m already thinking about Roland Garros. I\u2019m not going to leave anything for anyone.<\/p>\n

On the possibility of winning four grand slams in the same season:<\/p>\n

Obviously, it\u2019s something I would like. Who wouldn\u2019t like it? In the end, we work to have the most grand slams possible, we train for it \u2026 Hopefully, it happens some year, but I think \u2026 the best way to be able to face it and be able to achieve it is to go one by one.<\/p>\n

I already have Australia, I\u2019m going to celebrate it, I\u2019m going to enjoy it, I\u2019m going to savour the moment because we know it\u2019s very complicated to obtain a trophy like this, but my head is already in Roland Garros, and to see what we can do at Roland Garros and go bit by bit.<\/p>\n

\"It<\/p>\n

It was a changing-of-the-guard moment when Carlos Alcaraz usurped Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final on Sunday night.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

On whether he stops to think about his achievements:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve learnt to try to stop a bit \u2026 and enjoy [it] .and go back to even see \u2026 moments of the tournament, enjoy them, savour them. And above all realise that achieving it is very complicated, and I think that\u2019s the best way to do it to then be able to continue \u2026 working and giving yourself the opportunity to continue achieving a grand slam or trying to fight for a grand slam.<\/p>\n

On what it means that Novak Djokovic considers him a legend at 22:<\/p>\n

Well, I think a legend isn\u2019t forged in three or four years on the tour. Obviously, I think for what I\u2019ve achieved, many people can call me a legend. Seven grand slams, several Masters 1000s, 25 titles, almost 70 weeks as No.1.<\/p>\n

There are many people who \u2026 think that they can already consider me a legend if I retired right now. But I think a legend is forged over a lot of time \u2013 when you see a player year after year, going to the same tournaments with the same ambition, with the same hunger, with the same excitement. It generates a different feeling in the people who watch tennis.<\/p>\n

I think that\u2019s where a legend is really forged and I would like them to not call me that now, but rather tomorrow, in five, in 10 years, whenever it is \u2013 that they tell me my career has been legendary, that I am a legend of tennis, and that is what would make me proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz held a press conference in Spanish after speaking to reporters in English. This is what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-451943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451943","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=451943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}