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Grand Slam champions made the strings sing at the Vienna State Opera.<\/p>\n
Richard PagliaroOctober 26, 20262 minute read<\/p>\n
By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, October 26, 2026
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All the world\u2019s a stage.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev are major players in competition and culture.<\/p>\n
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz famously out-dueled Zverev in an epic Australian Open semifinal last January.<\/p>\n
The pair reconvened hitting high notes in a rally on stage at the Vienna State Opera and later on the steps inside the historic opera house that was completed in 1869.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t on my bingo card, playing an opera,\u201d a smiling Alcaraz said as the pair traded backhand volleys.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t on my bingo card making 10 volleys in a row,\u201d Zverev replied continuing the rally.<\/p>\n
World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz returns to the Austrian capital for the first time since 2021, when Zverev beat him in the semifinals and went on to capture the title. <\/p>\n
This week, Zverev is the top seed and opens against Spanish wild card Martin Landaluce. The second-seeded Alcaraz will face former Rolex Paris Masters champion Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy and proud of the way I came back,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cHopefully, this tournament and Paris it\u2019s going to be better and better. I\u2019m just happy with the way I\u2019m playing right now\u2014confident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s see if it\u2019s going to be this one\u2014this match up [in the Vienna final].\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, the acoustics in the 1,709-seat Vienna State Opera are so impeccable a shared conversation between Alcaraz and Zverev picked up the Australian Open champion\u2019s off-season plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to Miami and then I think Virgin Islands, one of those islands, I don\u2019t know which one yet,\u201d said Alcaraz, who will also travel to Brazil to face Joao Fonseca in an exhibition event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Fuzz Grand Slam champions made the strings sing at the Vienna State Opera. Richard PagliaroOctober 26, 20262…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-895910","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\/895910","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=895910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}