Australian Open 2024: Carlos Alcaraz vs Alexander Zverev preview, head-to-head, prediction, live streaming

Published at :January 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM

Modified at :January 24, 2024 at 4:42 PM

(Courtesy : ATP Tour/Tennis-Infinity.com)

While the Spaniard maybe the favourite, Zverev has a better head-to-head record.

Joining the party among the other quarterfinalists are Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev. Alcaraz has played only one match at the Australian Open 2024 lasting longer than three hours — the second-round face-off against Italian Lorenzo Sonego. The others were all three-set affairs, with the shortest completed match being the one against Miomir Kecmanovic, taking less than two hours to wrap up.

Zverev had to take the longer route to the quarterfinal stage. He faced spirited challenges from Slovakian qualifier Lukas Klein and Britain’s top-ranked player Cameron Norrie. Both matches took five sets to complete and lasted over four hours. A confident Klein came close to upsetting the World No. 6 in the final tiebreak set, narrowly missing out on the win.

Zverev found himself in a spot of bother as world No. 163 Klein stepped up the pressure to take the second and thirst sets after losing a tightly contested opening set. The final score at the end of the five-set thriller read 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(10-7).

Carlos Alcaraz vs Alexander Zverev Preview

You would be forgiven for thinking Carlos Alcaraz had somewhere to be on Monday night in Melbourne when he cruised past Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic. Alcaraz wrapped up the match in an hour and fifty minutes. The result is a showdown with sixth seed Zverev on Wednesday (24th January). Alcaraz delivered a masterclass in stroke-making, dismissing Kecmanovic 6-4 6-4 6-0. The Spaniard hit 43 winners to his opponent’s 14 while winning 83% of his first serves.

Zverev got the better of Norrie – the British number one in another absorbing five-setter. The 19th-seed Cameron Norrie came into the fourth round having lost all four of their previous meetings without taking a set. The sixth-seeded German pulled through, winning 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(10-3) to book his quarter-final spot at the Australian Open.

Zverev held it together in a deciding-set tiebreak to improve to 8-1 in Australia this season. The two-time Nitto ATP title holder racked up 54 winners to Norrie’s 56 but made fewer unforced errors, 41 to 63 by Norrie, to improve his perfect head-to-head record to 5-0. Zverev will take on second seed Carlos Alcaraz in his third quarter-final at Melbourne in pursuit of his maiden Grand Slam.

Head-to-head records

Matches – 7

Carlos Alcaraz – 3

Alexander Zverev – 4

Alexander Zverev moved ahead of Carlos Alcaraz in their head-to-head on the ATP tour at the 2023 Nitto ATP Finals in their round-robin fixture to win in three sets. Alcaraz won twice in 2023 at the ATP Masters 1000 Madrid and the US Open – both straight-set victories. The Spaniard will be hoping to level with the German if he is to reach the semi-final for the first time, and Zverev did so in 2020.

Indian Sports Live Coverage on Khel Now

Where and how to watch live streaming and TV broadcast of Carlos Alcaraz vs Alexander Zverev, Australian Open 2024, quarter-final match in India?

The Alcaraz – Zverev quarterfinal match is scheduled for the night session beginning at 7:15 PM local time (1:45 PM IST) on January 24th. Preceding their quarterfinal will be the women’s singles quarter-final between Anna Kalinskaya and Qinwen Zheng.

Fans in India can watch the Carlos Alcaraz vs Alexander Zverev clash live on Sony Ten channels on their TV sets. Sony Ten 2, Sony 3, Sony Ten 4 and Sony Ten 5 will live telecast Australian Open matches while SonyLiv will be live streaming the games online for OTT fans.

Prediction

The two familiar foes clash in their upcoming quarter-final fixture on Wednesday, January 24th. Both Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev have shown good form during the Australian Open 2024 and are among the top seeds to progress deep into the tournament. Zverev defeated Alcaraz at this stage of the tournament at Roland Garros in 2022 and will be looking for a repeat performance.

Alcaraz has a 28-9 win-loss statistic on hard courts in 2023, while Zverev is on 30-18 for the same. Alcaraz has yet to recover the form that saw him romp to victory at Wimbledon last summer, one of his six titles in 2023. Zverev leads Alcaraz in their hardcourt head-to-head 3-1 and has been resilient Down Under in 2024.

The two five-set tiebreakers that kept Zverev on the court for over eight hours could be a factor in the match’s outcome as it did in the 2023 US Open quarter-final. The German had just come off a marathon four-set match against Jannik Sinner that ended well past midnight.

Result: Alexander Zverev to win in five sets.

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