{"id":442738,"date":"2026-02-01T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:09:07","slug":"australian-open-live-alcaraz-outlasts-djokovic-in-epic-final-to-complete-career-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442738\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open live: Alcaraz outlasts Djokovic in epic final to complete career Grand Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia &#8212; World No. 1 <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and 24-time Grand Slam champion <a data-player-guid=\"4a27bb1c-2422-55c3-208b-9e9d8c1f30af\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> will battle it out in a heavyweight Australian Open final on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/47782259\/alcaraz-djokovic-australian-open-title-men-final\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1608227_2_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/47785747\/elena-rybakina-wins-australian-open-2nd-grand-slam-title\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1608355_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Both Alcaraz and Djokovic are chasing history at Melbourne Park. Should the Spaniard prevail, he would become the youngest man in history to complete the career Slam &#8212; winning all four Grand Slam titles. For Djokovic, a record-extending 11th Australian Open crown would break the tie for most major titles he currently shares with Margaret Court.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, world No. 5 <a data-player-guid=\"ae8f3eaf-8166-d650-d429-6200edef59fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a> came from 0-3 down in the third set to defeat top-ranked <a data-player-guid=\"c91d133a-526a-ea8d-654c-7ef6915ad63b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>. The victory earned her a second Grand Slam title and avenged her defeats to Sabalenka in the 2023 Australian Open and 2021 Wimbledon finals.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as ESPN&#8217;s team of reporters bring you all of the latest news, results, highlights, and more from the men&#8217;s Australian Open final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia &#8212; World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will battle it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-442738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442738","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=442738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}