Carlos Alcaraz y Novak Djokovic They will meet in the quarterfinals of the Open the Australia 2025. The duel that so many fans marked in red since the draw was held will become a reality. It will be their first face to face since the final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
On the one hand, Alcaraz seeks to conquer the only major that is missing from his record and thus become the youngest tennis player in the Open Era to complete the Grand Slam; on the other, Djokovic wants to reconquer the Australian Open, a tournament he has won 10 times.
Alcaraz reached the quarterfinals, defeating the British Jack Draperwho left due to injury after giving up the first two sets (7-5, 6-1). The Spaniard thus equals the result of 2024, the best to date in this tournament. If last year he gave in to Alexander Zverevthis time it will be even more complicated.
Djokovic has won the Australian Open 10 times, a dominance that was only surpassed in the Grand Slam Rafa Nadal with its 14 Roland Garros. The Serbian reached the quarterfinals, beating the Czech Jiri Lehecka by 6-3, 6-4 and 7-6(4).
It will be the first official confrontation between the two since the Paris 2024 Olympic final, where Djokovic took the victory by a tight 7-6(3) and 7-6(2) to win the only major title that was missing from his record.
-Alcaraz and Djokovic have faced each other seven times to date, with a balance of four victories for the Serbian and three for the Spaniard. Of those seven, three were in Grand Slam tournaments, where the balance favors Carlos Alcaraz, who won the last two Wimbledon finals.
However, the only two times that Alcaraz and Djokovic met on a hard court, the victory went to Nole: once in the final of the 2023 Cincinatti Masters 1000 (outdoor) and another in the ATP Finals of that same year ( covered track).
Curiously, it will be the first time that both tennis players see each other so early in a tournament: until now they had only met in the semifinals (3) and finals (4)
