{"id":245853,"date":"2026-01-15T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245853\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:05:08","slug":"australian-open-2026-roger-federer-hopes-carlos-alcaraz-can-complete-career-grand-slam-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245853\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Roger Federer hopes Carlos Alcaraz can complete career Grand Slam in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roger Federer says he hopes Carlos Alcaraz can win the upcoming Australian Open and become the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six-time major champion Alcaraz, 22, will bid to add the Melbourne title to his two Wimbledon, two French Open and two US Open crowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swiss great Federer completed the career Grand Slam with his 2009 French Open triumph, but by 2004 he had already secured victories at the other three majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Completing the set can involve a wait, and Federer said: &#8220;It&#8217;s like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c3evny5kpv2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory [McIlroy] going for the Masters,<\/a> those things are tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 44-year-old told a news conference at Melbourne Park: &#8220;At his young age, completing the career Grand Slam would be crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s see if he is able to do crazy this week. I hope he does because for the game it would be unbelievably special moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Federer says he hopes Carlos Alcaraz can win the upcoming Australian Open and become the youngest man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-245853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}