{"id":416355,"date":"2026-01-19T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/416355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:21:12","slug":"australian-open-2026-results-carlos-alcaraz-beats-adam-walton-in-straight-sets-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/416355\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026 results: Carlos Alcaraz beats Adam Walton in straight sets in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detailing his daily pre-season routine, he added: “I used to practise the whole morning – start at 09:00 and finish at 14:00 or even 15:00. The whole morning is about working out physically and on the court.<\/p>\n

“After that, I took almost every afternoon off to do whatever I want – stay with family or friends, play board games, chilling at home.<\/p>\n

“It’s a better way to recharge the batteries, staying at home with the people you love.”<\/p>\n

The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam at which Alcaraz is yet to reach the final, with the quarter-finals in 2024 and 2025 his best showings, but he advanced to round two in comfortable fashion against Walton.<\/p>\n

Playing in his first Grand Slam match since splitting from long-time coach Juan Carlos Ferrero,<\/a> Alcaraz had to wait until the eighth game of the opening set to convert a break point and also had his serve broken in the second, but immediately bounced back with a break of his own and proved too strong in the key moments, pulling away in the second set tie-break to win it 7-2.<\/p>\n

However, his 38 winners were almost matched by his 36 unforced errors and he only converted four of his 10 break points – statistics he will be eager to improve on in his second-round meeting with Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann.<\/p>\n

“It was difficult to find the good spot [against Walton],” added Alcaraz. “He was one step forward than me. He was always in a good position, long rallies and solid from the baseline. His flat ball was sometimes really difficult for me.<\/p>\n

“It was a really solid match and when he was able to step in on the court and play aggressive, he did and that made it really difficult in the match.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detailing his daily pre-season routine, he added: “I used to practise the whole morning – start at 09:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-416355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}