Jan 27, 2026, 09:17 AM ET<\/p>\n
Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> moved within two wins of completing a career Grand Slam after a 7-5, 6-2, 6-1 victory over Alex de Minaur<\/a> to close play Tuesday at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n In his first semifinal in Australia, Alcaraz will take on 2025 runner-up Alexander Zverev<\/a>, who beat 20-year-old Learner Tien<\/a> 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-6 (3) under cover in an afternoon match<\/a>.<\/p>\n They’re 6-6 in head-to-heads, with Zverev winning the quarterfinal here in 2024, their only meeting in Australia.<\/p>\n “It’s going to be a great battle,” Alcaraz said. “I’m looking forward to playing him here, taking revenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 27, 2026, 09:17 AM ET Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz moved within two wins of completing a career Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-436812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436812","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=436812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}