Jan 21, 2026, 02:56 AM ET<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> reached the third round Wednesday at the Australian Open, defeating Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> in a tough match for the Spaniard, who prevailed 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n “I knew [Hanfmann] was going to play great,” Alcaraz said. “I knew his level. We’d played a few times already. But to be honest, it was tougher than I thought.”<\/p>\n “The ball was coming as a bomb — forehand, backhand, so I had to be ready for that,” Alcaraz added of Hanfmann’s shotmaking.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Alcaraz, 22, is trying to win his first title at Melbourne Park to become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n In other men’s results, 2021 US Open winner and 11th-seeded Daniil Medvedev<\/a> beat Quentin Halys<\/a> 6-7 (9), 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; 13th-seeded Andrey Rublev<\/a> beat Jaime Faria<\/a> 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; and 19th-seeded Tommy Paul<\/a> defeated Thiago Agustin Tirante<\/a> 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n Also, 14th-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> won the first two sets but then struggled to beat American Reilly Opelka<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 4-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 21, 2026, 02:56 AM ET Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz reached the third round Wednesday at the Australian Open,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-420723","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\/420723","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=420723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}