Alcaraz and Djokovic are highlight reels and attention magnets. When they play each other, ever ounce of their energy is on the task at hand

The sheer power that Alcaraz is able to produce, even from dead, neutral balls, allows him to dictate proceedings from the baseline and bring his crafty drop shots and net play into focus. It has felt even more lethal thanks to a subtle change he has made to adapt his clay-friendly game to the quicker hard courts in Melbourne.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz go head-to-head in a heavyweight quarter-final clash at the Australian Open. It will be the first meeting between the two players since the final of the Paris Olympics last summer, when Djokovic took victory to claim the gold medal he had so desperately craved.