Australian Open Draw 2026 - Sinner vs Djokovic semi, Alcaraz vs Zverev semi

[DIMI_D]

Well folks, we know now how the semis and quarters are lined up, should they all make the matches

Alcaraz vs De Minaur
Zverev vs FAA

Sinner vs Shelton
Djokovic vs Musetti


Some interesting potential matches early on

Sinner vs Fonseca 3rd round
Musetti vs Fritz 4th round
Tsitsipas vs Dimitrov 2nd round
FAA vs Medvedev 4th round
De Minaur vs Berrettini 1st round
Djokovic vs Martinez 1st round - Djokovic going to his 100th match win in Melbourne.

Sub meddy in for zod and u have the semi

 

[Rosstour]

In his last 3 majors he got his ass handed to him by Sinner/Alcaraz and it’s not even close. Once it reaches the 2hr 30 minute mark he fades big time. He can’t beat them ever again. Too much intensity

I understand, but the fact is that outside of them, there’s no one I would trust more in a big match

A lot of players can get hot and beat him now, that is true. But seemingly not at Slams. If the B2 member in his half stumbles, then who can reliably beat him? It’s not impossible that both Sinner and Alcaraz could lose before the Final, and then you have to like Novak for the title

 

[Hitman]

Fed won his first slam at close to 22, so if Pete is 6 years older then it means he is 28, this means we are talking of 1999 Wimbledon Pete in place of Philippoussis ... Ok, Pete could best 2003 Federer, but then the next year 2004 Fed faces 2000 Pete, Fed beats him on Grass this time and also beats him in New York because Safin did beat Pete in New York in real time, if Safin can then the Federer who doubled bageled Hewitt will also do it. 2001 Pete vs 2005 Federer is even worse for Pete because he does not beat Federer anywhere now, not even in new york.

So that's it, Pete beats Federer at 1 Slam I.e 2003 Wimbledon

You have to agree that Agassi is not in this timeline as 5-6 years older because if Djokovic only had 1 ATG older to him in 6 years range then Federer should also have only Pete.

Now if you want to do the iteration with Agassi and not Pete then Agassi probably win an AO maybe, nothing else..

So that's what I meant, older ATG cannot do any real damage, taking 1 Slam from Federer is possible, not more for a 6 years older ATG, only a same aged one can do some real damage....nobody else. Also same aged ATG makes it harder for Djokodal below and so some slams below could trickle down from these guys to Fed and that ATG...

You doing a like for like, that is not what I mean, you cannot take what Sampras' career was like as it happened, that is a journey that starts in the late 80s that brought him to where he is, if he and Agassi are born five to six years later, their journey is different. But they still have the same insane talent.

So I will have to disagree with your assessment of how it would go, Federer IMO isn't dominating mid 20s Sampras and Agassi as a duo.

 

[Hitman]

Sub meddy in for zod and u have the semi

Sure, I was just going to expected rankings and seedings. Med will likely play disruptor.

 

[KingCarlitos]

Pretty boring now, every slam final is a foregone conclusion with Alcaraz and Sinner

 

[Razer]

You doing a like for like, that is not what I mean, you cannot take what Sampras' career was like as it happened, that is a journey that starts in the late 80s that brought him to where he is, if he and Agassi are born five to six years later, their journey is different. But they still have the same insane talent.

So I will have to disagree with your assessment of how it would go, Federer IMO isn't dominating mid 20s Sampras and Agassi as a duo.

Give Pete and Agassi in closer vicinity with Federer if you are giving a full 14-15 years after that between Federer and the next ATG.

Then it will be fair.

 

[Enceladus]

Djokovic will need to play out of his skin to avoid going on a 0-8 streak against Sinner.

Lost multiple times at Wimb to Alcaraz, He wouldn't want to lose multiple times to Sinner at AO.

Sinner has won the last 5 matches between them, not 8. Anything outside the ATP Tour doesn't count towards the statistics.

 

[Enceladus]

The problem with Federer - Djokovic discussions is that often we have the public look at what came before and ask why that is trailing what came affterwards, they don't weigh the fact that what came afterwards had the advantage of knowing the past but the past never had the advantage of knowing the future. Federer never knew 24 would be the slam count today, maybe he would have not taken his foot off the pedal a little bit after 2009 if he knew this ? Plenty of these things escape the understanding of Nolefams because they think the comparison is level like they compare Djokovic vs Nadal they think Fed too can be compared directly ignoring the age gap and hence many things that come with it.

I understand your argument, but Fed then could have looked at the the numbers of Graf, Navratilova, Evert (I'm not counting Court, for obvious reasons) and calculated that number 15 or 16 might not be enough in the future. Number 24 as a record may not last forever either and maybe it will be broken in the future, but it will be harder.

 

[ND-13]

Sinner has won the last 5 matches between them, not 8. Anything outside the ATP Tour doesn't count towards the statistics.

Don’t disagree it doesn’t count per ATP

But we all know Djokovic doesn’t like to lose to Sinner and he fought fully well like an actual match those last 7 times . So for practical purposes, they count . Of course , one is free to tune out losses that don’t fit in their opinion or narrative

 

[Razer]

I understand your argument, but Fed then could have looked at the the numbers of Graf, Navratilova, Evert (I'm not counting Court, for obvious reasons) and calculated that number 15 or 16 might not be enough in the future. Number 24 as a record may not last forever either and will probably be broken in the future, but it will be harder.

14 was seen as a very hard target in the 2000s, there is no way Federer could have understood that he should have gone for 20+

Also homogenization helped Federer tear up Sampras's numbers in 6 years but there is no way that he could have known that this would help the guys younger than him too against him, Nadal was still seen as a guy who was gonna retire before 30 and Djokovic was yet to emerge in 2010, even in the early 2010s period Djokovic was seen as a guy who would have a Courier or at best a Becker type slam count at best. Lot of that changed in 2014 toward 2023, as I say the 1990s gen did not emerge and that allowed Djoko-dal to replicate everything Federer did.

To bluntly put it ---> Nadal was supposed to retire by 30 and now he had Djokovic who emerged. With Djokovic having Nadal and Nadal having Djokovic, neither of them were supposed to come close to Federer's total, but then 2014-2023 happened, the decade of the 1990s gen

70s gen won most of their slams in 94-03, 80s gen won most of their slams in 04-13, now 14-23 was suppose to be the slice of the pie which was meant for 1990s gen to eat, but instead of the older men got to eat that and Federer did not anticipate this in late 2000s/early 2010s, nobody did.

 

[NoleFam]

Djokovic is a washed up bum. Sinner has been annihilating him. It’s not even worth watching especially considering how ****ty Djokovic's passive game is to watch. After the end of this year hopefully this will be the last we hear from both of you.

Washed up or not, he holds all the records and sealed the deal for his greatness years ago. Like after Federer retired it was the last we heard from you? No, unfortunately you're still here offering nothing of substance to actual tennis dicussions.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

I made bet with @Poisoned Slice and put avi bet , also made bet with @ADuck there’s no money involved

Just two gentlemen competing in a friendly avatar contest.