The King Philip VI received this Wednesday at Palace of Zarzuela to the winners of US Open 2022Spanish tennis players Carlos Alcaraz, Martin Landaluce and Martin de la Puente.
The athletes attended the royal appointment accompanied by their parents and the president of the Spanish Tennis Federation, Miguel Díaz.
Don Felipe greeted the tennis players with a wide smile and after greeting Alcaraz, 19, he turned to Landaluce and warned the former: “beware of the new generations, they will come strong”, in reference to 16-year-old boy. of the junior champion.
After his success in New York, Alcaraz became the youngest player to reach world number 1 and thus joins the group of Spaniards who have managed to reach the top of men’s tennis consisting of Carlos Moyá, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Rafa Nadal.
At 19 years, 4 months and 7 days, the Murcian Alcaraz broke the record of Australian Lleyton Hewitt who reached the top with 20 years, 8 months and 23 days in 2001.
Madrid-born Martín Landaluce was proclaimed champion of the junior tournament at the age of 16, a feat achieved by only two Spaniards: Javier Sánchez-Vicario, in 1986, and Daniel Rincón, in 2021.
The Galician Martín de la Puente, 23 years old, and number 6 in the ITF ranking of wheelchair tennis players, and sports partner of the Frenchman, Nicolás Peifer, became the first Spanish player to win the Grand Slam in the wheelchair category.
De la Puente and Peifer, with this Grand Slam, added their third victory of the year together in doubles. The other two titles are the British Open and Open Toyota Ile de Ré in France.
Source: La Verdad
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