{"id":1697,"date":"2026-02-01T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:00:26","slug":"former-british-no-1-predicts-carlos-alcarazs-final-grand-slam-total-after-australian-open-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Former British No 1 predicts Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s final Grand Slam total after Australian Open glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> claimed his seventh Grand Slam title as he became the youngest player of all-time to win all four Grand Slams with his victory against Novak Djokovic<\/a> at the Australian Open<\/a> and now former British No 1 Greg Rusedski has predicted how many major title the Spanish great will win.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz\u2019s four set win against Djokovic ended the Serbian\u2019s hopes of winning a 25th Grand Slam title and Rusedski suggests the world No 1 will not be \u2018favourite for every Grand Slam\u2019 after his victory in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the latest episode of his Off Court Cuts show<\/a>, Rusedski predicted Alcaraz is now on course to win in excess of 20 Grand Slam titles, as he eyes up a shot at record holder Djokovic in a career that has already put him among the all-time greats of the game at the tender age of 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he gets another one or two this year, he\u2019s at eight or nine. you know, he\u2019s going to be the favourite for every Slam he plays,\u201d said Rusedski.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the No 1 player on the planet. We were all panicked about what\u2019s going to happen with Juan Carlos Ferrero. Well, no more questions needed to be asked.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s won his first Australian Open seventh major, something he\u2019s never done before. He\u2019d never been in an Australian Open final before. He\u2019d never won one.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he\u2019s going from strength to strength. It\u2019s been a fantastic Australian Open and start to the year for him. So I don\u2019t see why there\u2019s any reason, if he stays healthy, why he cannot get to 20. To get beyond 20 plus, that\u2019s a different beast.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth is your wealth. You have to be healthy and you have to be dominant over usually a 10 year period to achieve those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rusedski also suggested the questions marks over his split with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero have been answered in the grand manner with his sparkling win in Melbourne under lead coach Sami Lopez.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have sometimes a really big name coach, they take the spotlight away from you, but they also are very strong minded and he\u2019s getting the balance right,\u201d added Rusedski<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it was very interesting in the match [against Djokovic] as well, because when he played those drop shots and those angles and then play the magical point, it was almost like he got more energy and more joy. And that\u2019s the balance with coaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to keep the creativity in there, but you also want to keep the solidness at times. And I think Sammy Lopez, let\u2019s give him credit. He is the coach now. He\u2019s done a fantastic job as being the only coach on the team at the moment and well done to Carlos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rusedski went on to identify the moment Alcaraz broke Djokovic in the Australian Open final, as he suggested the swing in momentum after the Serbian won the first set was crucial.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou felt that Carlos got that second set and Djokovic started looking a little bit tired, which is normal at 38 years of age,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cTried to stage a comeback in that fourth set, but Carlos just didn\u2019t relent to finish it off 7-5 in the fourth set. And it\u2019s these small margins. If you\u2019re a Djokovic fan, there\u2019s hope. As you say, he\u2019s improved his game. His serve needed to be slightly better today, even though he served very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carlos Alcaraz claimed his seventh Grand Slam title as he became the youngest player of all-time to win all four Grand Slams with his victory against Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open and now former British No 1 Greg Rusedski has predicted how many major title the Spanish great will win. Alcaraz\u2019s four set win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}