One of tennis's most respected analysts has detailed why the Australian Open's chasing pack of challengers loom as "second-week fodder" for grand slam giants Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
"Because they just don't do their homework," Novak Djokovic's former Australian strategist Craig O'Shannessy told AAP at Melbourne Park.
The top-ranked Alcaraz and two-time defending Open champion Sinner have gobbled up the spoils at the past eight majors stretching back to Djokovic's 2023 US Open triumph.