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Alcaraz staring at Grand Slam history at Melbourne Park
The Straits Times
|January 10, 2025
There is little doubt Carlos Alcaraz is one of the brightest stars of his generation with Grand Slam success on all three surfaces, and the Spaniard will arrive at the Australian Open looking to conquer the final frontier of his young career.
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Should he lift the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup at Melbourne Park, the 21-year-old French Open, Wimbledon and US Open champion will become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam - the feat of winning all four Major titles. Victory would put him in the elite company of Fred Perry, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, cementing his status as a modern great.
However, Alcaraz has not gone beyond the quarter-finals in his three previous visits to Melbourne, although that has not stopped the world No. 3 from dreaming of glory in the Jan 12-26 event.
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