{"id":45629,"date":"2025-10-07T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-headlines-one-point-slam-at-ao-amateurs-vs-pros-for-1-million\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:55:42","slug":"alcaraz-headlines-one-point-slam-at-ao-amateurs-vs-pros-for-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/alcaraz-headlines-one-point-slam-at-ao-amateurs-vs-pros-for-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Headlines &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; at AO: Amateurs vs. Pros for $1 Million!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1007%2Fr1556854_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4269\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nCarlos Alcaraz and 21 other professionals will compete in the tournament along with 10 amateurs.\n\n<h2>Alcaraz Headlines &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; at Australian Open<\/h2>\n\nThe tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will lead the new &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; event at this year&#8217;s Australian Open, organizers announced on Tuesday. In this tournament, 10 amateur players will face 22 professionals.\n\nThe overall winner will receive a prize of AUS$1 million (approximately $700,000), a slightly lower amount than the semifinalists in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s main draws will receive.\n\nThe event, which will be held during the inaugural weekend of the Grand Slam that kicks off the season, follows the example of the US Open, which sought to attract new audiences to tennis by expanding its mixed doubles competition.\n\nThe &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; will deliver exactly what it promises: each match will consist of a single point. A pre-game of &#8220;rock, paper, scissors&#8221; will decide who serves.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today I can reveal that world number 1, Carlos Alcaraz, will head the list of professional players in the Million Dollar 1 Point Slam, an exciting new initiative where a single point could win you $1 million.<\/p><cite>Craig Tiley, Australian Open Tournament Director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRegistrations will open soon at clubs across the country, and during Opening Week, finalists will compete for the opportunity to face the professionals at Rod Laver Arena.\n\nMore big names will be announced soon, so now you have a million reasons to grab a racket and get ready for January.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz and 21 other professionals will compete in the tournament along with 10 amateurs. Alcaraz Headlines &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; at Australian Open The tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will lead the new &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; event at this year&#8217;s Australian Open, organizers announced on Tuesday. In this tournament, 10 amateur players will face 22 professionals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[434,172,9538,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-45629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-australian-open","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-one-point","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}