{"id":258350,"date":"2026-01-26T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/258350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:42:08","slug":"australian-open-2026-quarter-finals-carlos-alcaraz-and-iga-swiatek-continue-career-grand-slam-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/258350\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026 quarter-finals: Carlos Alcaraz and Iga \u015awi\u0105tek continue Career Grand Slam bids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quarter-final lineups are set for the\u00a02026 Australian Open<\/a>\u00a0(18 January-1 February).<\/p>\n

For the first time in the Open Era, the top six seeds in both the men\u2019s singles and women\u2019s singles draws have all made the tennis<\/a> Grand Slam final eight.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s draw, all the big hitters remain in contention including world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, bidding to become the youngest man to complete the Career Grand Slam. The Spaniard has twice fallen at the quarter-final stage \u2013 will it be third time lucky?<\/p>\n

Alcaraz also has the benefit of being on the other side of the draw of the remaining major winners: Olympic gold medallist Novak Djokovic<\/a> and two-time defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a>, who are on course for a semi-final showdown in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Over on the women\u2019s side, with 2025 champion\u00a0Madison Keys<\/a> out, the title is up for grabs in an ever-competitive field. Iga \u015awi\u0105tek<\/a> can conquer the Career Grand Slam at a tournament where she has twice reached the semi-finals, one trophy away from history.<\/p>\n

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> and top-ranked USA player Coco Gauff<\/a> stand strong in the top half of the draw, both with tough quarter-final ties against Iva Jovic and Elena Rybakina<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n

Here are the key details you need to know about the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quarter-final lineups are set for the\u00a02026 Australian Open\u00a0(18 January-1 February). For the first time in the Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-258350","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\/258350","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=258350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}