Carlos Alcaraz easily advances to Australian Open 3rd round

No. 3 seed Carlos Alcaraz breezed past Yoshihito Nishioka 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 in 81 minutes Wednesday to march into the third round of the Australian Open.

Alcaraz, winner of last year’s French Open and Wimbledon, got off to a blistering start and never looked back, winning the first nine games before Nishioka could even get on the board.

It marked the shortest completed men’s match at this year’s tournament by 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, on Rod Laver Arena, Novak Djokovic was playing in his 430th career Grand Slam singles match, passing Roger Federer for most in the Open Era.

ESPN Research and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: espn.com