World No.3 Carlos Alcaraz dismissed Portuguese Nuno Borges in the third round who took his first set in Melbourne.
Carlos Alcaraz, four-time Grand Slam winner, won 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2 against the Portuguese Nuno Borges (33rd) an opponent he had already dominated in their only previous duel, in 2023 on the clay court of Barcelona.
Winner in three sets of his first two matches, Alcaraz conceded his first set since the start of the Australian Open against Borges, semi-finalist of the ATP 250 in Auckland in early January.
In the round of 16, the 21-year-old Spaniard will face either the Briton Jack Draper (18th) or the Australian Aleksandar Vukic (68th), before a possible shock in the quarter-finals against Novak Djokovic (7th), crowned ten time in Melbourne and in search of a record 25th Grand Slam title.
-If he wins the Australian Open, Alcaraz would become the youngest player in history to win all four Grand Slam tournaments.
His best result in Melbourne is a quarter-final, lost in 2024 against Alexander Zverev (2nd), who also qualified for the eighth on Friday just a few minutes before the Spaniard.
