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Alcaraz Wants End to Late-Night Matches at Grand Slams

The world number three said matches ending at 3:33 a.m. hurt players, stadium crowds and television audiences.

Alcaraz's reign as US Open champion was shattered by Ben Shelton in a five-set thriller that finished at 3.33am local time in New York. The quarter-final started on a Tuesday evening and finally came to a conclusion after four hours and 28 minutes on a Wednesday morning in the latest finish in US Open history. The cut-off for matches at Wimbledon is 11pm local time, but the US Open, French Open and Australian Open do not have an alloted time to …

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LONDON (ANP/AFP) - If it were up to Carlos Alcaraz, no more night tennis matches would be played at Grand Slam tournaments. The Spanish top tennis player said this to reporters in London on Thursday ahead of this coming weekend's battle for the Laver Cup. Alcaraz, who this season months...

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Daily Express broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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