Carlos Alcaraz, top-10 in both age and day of Rafa Nadal

Carlos Alcaraz intends to track the role of Rafa Nadal in Godo 2005, when he opened the current record of twelve titles including 18 years and 10 months. Also, the next day, on April 25, the man from Manaco entered the world top-10, rising to seventh place.

Murcian is a month older, he didn’t break any record of being ahead of RCT Barcelona-1899. Even Nadal didn’t make it, as the youngest champion of the tournament was the Swede Mats Wilanderthe best in the 1982 edition in 18 years and a month.

It will also be a new world top-10 on Monday, April 25. From the eleventh position he safely climbed to tenth, leaving the British cameron norrie, which he surpassed after entering the ‘semis’ of Godó. He will take ninth place from the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, which he missed once, qualified for the Barcelona final. He had no chance of reaching the eighth to become champion in the tournament.

In 2005, Nadal won the contests of Costa do Sauípe and Acapulco on the American land tour. And chained to Europe Montecarlo and Godo. Alcaraz announced his arrival by winning the clay of Rio de Janeiro, took momentum with the ‘top ten’ dominating the hard court Miami Masters 1000.

Nadal hasn’t dropped into the top-10 since. At 35, he is on his way to reaching 900 consecutive weeks in the elite rankings. He has the record. Although the injuries could not appeal to him from the chosen club, where they left, due to physical problems, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

With his massive success this year, Alcaraz is the third player to add the most points to the rankings this year, behind Rafa Nadal and his victim in the Godó quarterfinals, the Greek. Stefanos Tsitsipas. It is in the battle for the number 1 currently occupied by Djokovic.

It still has room to beat the record for being ahead of No. 1, held by the Australian Lleyton Hewittwhich topped the ATP rankings at 20 years and 8 months.

Of the kids who made it into the top-10, Alcaraz was the ninth youngest, just behind Nadal. The one who came earlier was the American Aaron Krickstein, with 17 years and 11 months. The American child prodigy did not confirm expectations later.

This is the ranking in the world

(after the quarterfinals in Barcelona and Belgrade)

1. Novak Djokovic (Srb) / 8,340
2. Daniil Medvedev (Russia) / 8,080
3. Alexander Zverev (Ale) / 7,465
4. Rafael Nadal (Spa) / 6,435
5. Sefanos Tsitsipas (Gre) / 5,770
6. Matteo Berrettini (Ita) / 4,570
7. Casper Ruud (Nor) / 4,110
8. Andrey Rublev (Rus) / 3,865
9. Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can) / 3,625
10. Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) / 3,507
11. Cameron Norrie (GBR) / 3,440
12. Jannik Sinner (Ita) / 3,029
13. Taylor Fritz (USA) / 3,010
14. Hubert Hurkacz (Pol) / 3,008
15. Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) / 2,805

Alcaraz became the 25th Spanish professional tennis player to position himself in the top 10, as the rankings were made using computer methods. They were 20 males and 5 females. Tomorrow the Catalan will also break his own record Paula Badosa, that the best performance in the WTA in Stuttgart allowed him to rise to number two in the world. Ahead there is only Polish Iga Swiatek.

The top-10 of professional Spanish tennis

No. 1
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (February 6, 1995)
Carlos Moya (March 15, 1999)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (September 8, 2003)
Rafa Nadal (August 18, 2008)
Garbiñe Muguruza (September 11, 2017)
No. 2
Manolo Orantes (August 23, 1973)
Conchita Martinez (October 30, 1995)
Alex Corretja (February 1, 1999)
Paula Badosa (April 25, 2022)
No. 3
Sergi Bruguera (August 1, 1994)
David Ferrer (July 8, 2013)
No. 5
Tommy Robredo (August 28, 2006)
No. 6
Pepe Higueras (June 13, 1983)
Albert Costa (July 22, 2022)
Carla Suarez (February 29, 2016)
No. 7
Joan Aguilera (September 17, 1984)
Emilio Sánchez Vicario (April 30, 1990)
Alberto Berasategui (November 14, 1994)
Fernando Verdasco (April 20, 2009)
No. 9
Nico Almagro (May 2, 2011)
Roberto Bautista (November 4, 2019)
No. 10
Carlos Costa (May 18, 1992)
Felix Mantilla (June 8, 1998)
Pablo Carreno (September 11, 2017)
No. 9 o No. 10
Carlos Alcaraz (April 25, 2022)

There were five Spaniards who became No. 1 in the individual category. Among them, Carlos Alcaraz’s coach, the Valencian Juan Carlos Ferrero.