Alcaraz Champion: Career Grand Slam At 22

**Carlos Alcaraz** defeated **Novak Djokovic** 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 in three hours and two minutes, winning his first Australian Open and completing the Career Grand Slam at just 22 years and 272 days old.

He is the youngest ever to achieve this feat, breaking the record held by Don Budge since 1938. The Spaniard becomes the sixth man of the Open Era to win all four Majors at least once, after Laver, Agassi, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic himself.

What stands out is how this victory came about: after losing the first set convincingly, Alcaraz found his rhythm in the second and never lost it again, despite a fourth set that was fought point by point. Seven Slams at twenty-two tell the story of a player who seems to have already understood what it takes to win the matches that matter, even when body and mind were tested just days earlier in the marathon against Zverev.