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Carlos Alcaraz Garfia was born on 5 May 2003, in El Palmar, Murcia, Spain, to parents Carlos Alcaraz González and Virginia Garfia Escandón. He has one older and two younger brothers. [10] Alcaraz started playing tennis at the age of four at the Real Sociedad Club de Campo de Murcia, where his father was a tennis coach and club administrator. [11]
Alcaraz at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters This is a list of main career statistics of Spanish professional tennis player Carlos Alcaraz . All statistics are according to the ATP Tour [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and ITF websites.
Pete Sampras held the year-end No. 1 ranking for a record six consecutive years. [16] [17] Carlos Alcaraz is both the youngest world No. 1 (19 years, 4 months), [18] and the youngest year-end No. 1 (19 years, 7 months). [19] Djokovic is both the oldest world No. 1 (37 years and 16 days) [20] and the oldest year-end No. 1 (36 years, 7 months). [21]
Everyone kept waiting for Carlos Alcaraz to turn things around at the U.S. Open. Alcaraz figured it would happen at some point. This is, after all, Carlos Alcaraz we're talking about — the 21 ...
But over the course of five sets lasting almost five hours, 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz stepped up and wrestled the title right out of Djokovic’s hands. The final totals: 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, 3-6 ...
To be Carlos Alcaraz is to believe that anything is possible on a tennis ... It will be the first time in the Open era that two players under the age of 21 have competed in a Wimbledon quarter ...
With this title, Alcaraz tied Mats Wilander and Björn Borg's record for the most men's singles major titles won by age 21. [32] He also improved his grass court win percentage to the current best in the Open Era, at 89%.
Carlos Alcaraz defeated the four-time defending champion Novak Djokovic in the final, 1–6, 7–6 (8–6), 6–1, 3–6, 6–4 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships. It was his first Wimbledon title. [15] Alcaraz, Djokovic, and Daniil Medvedev were in contention for the men's singles No. 1 ranking.