VIDEO SHOWS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, POSING WITH TROPHY / SOUNDBITES FROM ALCARAZ RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (FEBRUARY 2, 2026) (AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION - Broadcast: No use Australia. Digital: No use Australia / .com.au internet sites / any internet site of any Australia based media organisations or mobile platforms / Australian NVO clients / smh.com.au / news.com.au) 1. VARIOUS OF AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, HOLDING NORMAN BROOKES CHALLENGE CUP AND POSING FOR MEDIA 2. PHOTOGRAPHERS / ALCARAZ KISSING TROPHY 3. NORMAN BROOKES CHALLENGE CUP / ALCARAZ POSING FOR MEDIA 4. VARIOUS OF ALCARAZ POSING FOR MEDIA WITH TROPHY 5. PHOTOGRAPHERS 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: “Well, it was a dream come true, to be honest. It was something that I was working really hard for, to get this this trophy to go the career Grand Slam so... Before the last point, I was, you know, a lot of, a lot of things came to my mind, to be honest. So I will, I was really nervous. I was shaking almost so once, once I saw the ball going and going out, it was like, all right, I just I made it. It was a great feeling.” 7. WHITE FLASH 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: “Yeah, it's great. It's great to know that. Yeah you're the youngest. Your name is going to be in the book records. So it's a great feeling to be the youngest. But I think for me even more to, you know, to put my name next to the legends that have been able to complete their career grand slams.” 9. WHITE FLASH 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: “Those are big words. Those are big words. So I don't know. I will try to go for it (to win all four grand slams this year) for sure. What I'm just working really hard for is to get the biggest tournaments in, in the world, the Masters 1000s, the Grand Slams. So the next one that I just that I'm going to play I will try to be better, to be in a good shape. And I'm obviously go for it. But one at a time.” 11. WHITE FLASH 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: “I don’t really know that it’s going to be a kangaroo (tattoo). I don’t know the place yet, so I’m just thinking about the leg. But I don’t know which one in the calf. So I don’t know if it's going to be the right one, the left one. So I think I’m just going to do something great to remember this great moment.” 13. WHITE FLASH 14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S CHAMPION, CARLOS ALCARAZ, SAYING: “What he's (Djokovic) doing with believing in himself and believing that he's able to achieve great things. So he's still believing that he can get great things in this sport is impressive.” 15. WHITE FLASH 16. ALCARAZ POSING WITH TROPHY FOR MEDIA STORY: Carlos Alcaraz celebrated becoming the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam by posing with the Australian Open trophy in Melbourne on Monday (February 2). The Spaniard, 22, overcame Novak Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5, at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday (February 1) to lift the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup for the first time – his seventh grand slam win overall. Speaking to reporters outside the Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building, Alcaraz said his focus was on winning the next big tournament. He also didn’t reveal the tattoo he will be getting to mark his Melbourne Park triumph. Alcaraz has commemorated previous major wins with body art - a strawberry for Wimbledon, the Eiffel Tower for the French Open, the date of his first U.S. Open title and after his second in New York, the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge. (Production: James Redmayne) (The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)
