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<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz
\n Alcaraz envies Federer’s golf game: ‘As beautiful as the tennis!’<\/p>\n
ATP No. 1 Club members hit the course in Melbourne<\/p>\n
January 21, 2026<\/p>\n
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Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz and Roger Federer at the 2024 Laver Cup.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Roger Federer<\/a> never had the chance to develop a Lexus ATP Head2Head rivalry on the tennis court, but the ATP No. 1 Club<\/a> members squared off on the golf course in Melbourne during the Australian Open<\/a>. After his three-set win against Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> on Wednesday, Alcaraz was asked about the Swiss star’s game during his on-court interview in Rod Laver<\/a> Arena.<\/p>\n “It’s as beautiful as the tennis!” Alcaraz said. “I’m not surprised. It’s unbelievable. Everything he does, he does in style, really beautiful. On the golf course, it’s a really beautiful swing.”<\/p>\n While the 22-year-old Alcaraz has been playing golf for about five years \u2014 all throughout his professional career \u2014 the 44-year-old Federer waited until after he retired to pick up the sport. Judging by Alcaraz’s comments, the Swiss has made the most of his short time in the new game.<\/p>\n “I think he’s been playing for two years now, and his level is really, really good for two years,” Alcaraz said. “I’ve been playing five and he’s already beating me! It hurts, yeah.”<\/p>\n Back on the tennis court, the current No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings had no such problems. His 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-2 victory against Hanfmann moved him into the third round without the loss of a set \u2014 though he needed 78 minutes to win a dramatic opening set against the German.<\/p>\n You May Also Like: Alcaraz survives 78-minute opening set in Australian Open R2 victory<\/a><\/p>\n While Alcaraz has a long way to go to match Federer’s six Australian Open<\/a> singles titles and 20 Grand Slams, he could complete a Career Grand Slam this fortnight at age 22 \u2014 five years younger than Federer was when he achieved the feat by winning Roland Garros<\/a> in 2009.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz Alcaraz envies Federer’s golf game: ‘As beautiful as the tennis!’ ATP No. 1 Club members hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-249630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}