{"id":45931,"date":"2025-10-08T05:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alcaraz-headlines-one-point-slam-at-ao-million-at-stake\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:19:21","slug":"alcaraz-headlines-one-point-slam-at-ao-million-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/alcaraz-headlines-one-point-slam-at-ao-million-at-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Headlines &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; at AO: Million at Stake!"},"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=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nCarlos Alcaraz and 21 other professionals will participate in the tournament along with 10 amateurs.\n\n<h2>Alcaraz leads the &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; at the Australian Open<\/h2>\n\nThe tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will headline the new &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; event at the upcoming Australian Open, organizers announced on Tuesday. This tournament will pit 10 amateur players against 22 professionals.\n\nThe overall winner will receive a prize of AUS$1 million (approximately $700,000), a sum slightly less than what the semi-finalists in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s individual categories of the main tournament will receive.\n\nThis event, which will be held during the opening weekend of the Grand Slam, follows the US Open&#8217;s initiative to attract new attention to tennis by expanding its mixed doubles competition.\n\nThe &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; will deliver on its promise: each match will consist of a single point. A pre-game of &#8220;rock, paper, scissors&#8221; will decide who serves.\n\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 headline the lineup of professional players at the Million Dollar 1 Point Slam, a new and exciting initiative where a single point could win you $1 million.<\/p><cite>Craig Tiley, Australian Open Tournament Director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe registrations will open soon in clubs across the country, and during Opening Week, the finalists will compete for the opportunity to face the professionals at Rod Laver Arena.\n\nMore big names will be announced soon, so there&#8217;s now a million reasons to pick up a racket and get ready for January.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz and 21 other professionals will participate in the tournament along with 10 amateurs. Alcaraz leads the &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; at the Australian Open The tennis player Carlos Alcaraz will headline the new &#8220;One Point Slam&#8221; event at the upcoming Australian Open, organizers announced on Tuesday. This tournament will pit 10 amateur players against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[434,172,9567,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-45931","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-slam","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45931","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=45931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}