Carlos Alcaraz justified his title as the top seed and defeated Novak Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 in just over three hours of play in the Australian Open final.
Their head-to-head score is now 5:5.
Alcaraz won his seventh Grand Slam. Of the eight finals he has reached, he has lost only one – to Janik Siner at Wimbledon last year. At 22 years and 272 days, the Spaniard became the youngest player to win that many trophies, surpassing Bjorn Borg, who was 23 years and 4 days old when he won his seventh Grand Slam.
He is the ninth player in history with a career grand slam, but the youngest.
In the open era, the record was held by Rafael Nadal at 24 years and 102 days. Alkaars won the 25th trophy of his career. Among active players, only Novak Djokovic has more (101).
The last nine Grand Slams have been won by Alcaraz and Siner, previously managed by Nadal and Roger Federer and then Nadal and Djokovic.
Alcaraz received a check for $2,89 million in Melbourne, Djokovic received $1,496 million. Djokovic earned a record $192,74 million from the tournament.
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