Carlos Alcaraz will turn 19 this Thursday as the ninth player in the world with 3,818 points. Murcian has a 2022 to frame with 24 wins in 27 games played and has captured Masters 1,000 titles in Miami and the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro and Godó, which is third in the ranking of the year with 2,460 points, nang At this point last season he was 76th in the race of the year with 199.
Alcaraz, who at the end of 2021 played in the Next Gen ATP Finals tournament in Milan, reserved for the best young tennis players in the world, which he also won, He has made an extraordinary jump and his progress makes him a favorite not only in that championship but in the one with the best racket on the circuit, the Nitto ATP Finalswhich will take place again in Turin.
One from El Palmar, who just started his journey to the Mutua Madrid Open with a victory over Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili by 6-3 and 7-5, He has 2,460 points added in the six tournaments that have ended this course -also participated in the Australian Open and in the Masters 1,000 of Indian Wells and Montecarlo-.
Ahead of him in this battle that runs parallel to the global ATP is Rafa Nadal, who was in first place in 2022 with 3,350; and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, second with 2,530.
Below is Russian Daniil Medvedev, fourth with 1,900; the American Taylor Fritz, fifth with 1,765; the Russian Andrey Rublev, sixth with 1,730; Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime, seventh with 1,675; Norwegian Casper Ruud, eighth with 1,245; Argentine Diego Schwartzman, ninth with 1,150; and Canadian Denis Shapovalov, tenth with 1,080.
12 months ago, Juan Carlos Ferrero’s student was 120th in the world with 654 points and in the year’s classification he was in 76th place with 199 points, after participating in eight tournaments in the first quarter of the course.
So, from one year to the next it rose to 73 positions, a number that could still rise after the Mutua Madrid Open. And it is that Alcaraz could leave the Madrid tournament as number 6 in the world. To do this, he had to go one round further than Rublev (8) and, at the very least, equal the result that Casper Ruud (7) achieved.. He is sure to beat Berrettini (6) after failing to defend the 600 points he recorded last year in reaching the final due to injury.
This is the ATP world ranking
1. Novak Djokovic (Srb) / 8,400
2. Daniil Medvedev (Russia) / 8,080
3. Alexander Zverev (Ale) / 7,420
4. Rafael Nadal (Spa) / 6,435
5. Sefanos Tsitsipas (Gre) / 5,690
6. Matteo Berrettini (Ita) / 4,495
7. Casper Ruud (Nor) / 4,110
8. Andrey Rublev (Rus) / 4,025
9. Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) / 3,818
10. Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can) / 3,625
This is the Race to Turin 2022
Points added in 2022
1. Rafael Nadal (Spa) / 3,350
2. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gre) / 2,530
3. Carlos Alcaraz (Spa) / 2,460
4. Daniil Medvedev (Russia) / 1,900
5. Taylor Fritz (USA) / 1,765
6. Andrey Rublev (Rus) / 1,730
7. Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can) / 1675
8. Casper Ruud (Nor) / 1,245
9. Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) / 1,150
10. Denis Shapovalov (Can) / 1,080
…
97. Novak Djokovic (Srb) / 250
Source: La Verdad
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