World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz qualified for the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Sunday. He could face ten-time tournament winner Novak Djokovic (7th).
The 21-year-old Spaniard, in search of the last Grand Slam title in Melbourne which is missing from his collection, beat the Briton Jack Draper (18th), who threw in the towel after losing the first two sets 7- 5 6-2.
He will face in the quarter-finals the winner of the match between Novak Djokovic and the Czech Jiri Lehecka (29th), scheduled for early evening in Melbourne.
‘It’s not the way I wanted to go to the next round but I’m happy to play another quarter-final’ in Australia, where he has never reached the last four, Alcaraz said on court.
“I hope that this year I will go further” in the table, added the four-time Grand Slam winner, who if he wins the title would become the youngest player in history to have won all four major tournaments.
-Draper, winner in five sets in each of the first three rounds, was playing the first tournament of his season in Melbourne, after having given up playing the United Cup due to a hip injury.
After wishing the Briton a ‘speedy recovery’, Alcaraz said he was ‘very happy’ with his level of play. ‘Physically, I am in great shape, which is very important at the start of a second week of Grand Slam’, he stressed.
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