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<\/p>\nCarlos Alcaraz has reached the Australian Open fourth round after a convincing straight-sets win over Corentin Moutet.<\/p>\n
The world number one dropped just seven games against the unconventional Frenchman, setting up a fourth-round match with Tommy Paul.<\/p>\n
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Alcaraz says he\u2019s made \u201cvaluable\u201d changes to his game ahead of the Australian Open and is yet to hit top gear in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Even without reaching his peak form, Alcaraz has still matched an impressive record that only Bjorn Borg holds.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz joins Borg in exclusive club after Grand Slam win at Australian Open<\/p>\n
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Alcaraz\u2019s win over Moutet marked his 100th Grand Slam match, and the Spaniard has a standout record from those appearances.<\/p>\n
The world number one has won 87 of those matches, a mark surpassed only by tennis legend Bjorn Borg.<\/p>\n
Borg had just one more win at the same stage, but every other player in history falls short of Alcaraz\u2019s tally.<\/p>\n
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That 87% success rate reflects the level of consistency that has already produced four majors over two years.<\/p>\n
Even so, Melbourne hasn\u2019t been as kind to him \u2013 he\u2019s yet to progress beyond the quarter-finals at the Australian Open. That could change this season.<\/p>\n
Australian Open schedule favours Carlos Alcaraz as rivals face heat<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz has been handed a break in the Australian Open schedule, as he avoids playing during an expected extreme heat day in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Jannik Sinner is set to play a daytime match against Eliott Spizzirri under the harsh conditions, while Novak Djokovic will also be in action later that same day.<\/p>\n
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It could work out well for Alcaraz, who gets a rest day when the temperatures are set to peak, giving him a potential edge over his main competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has reached the Australian Open fourth round after a convincing straight-sets win over Corentin Moutet. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[7641,80708,49,48,619,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-428779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-australian-open","9":"tag-bjorn-borg","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}