Carlos Alcarazwith the 13 ATP titles in 17 matches with one title at stakeis the king of finals and the numbers prove it as no other tennis player has a better success percentage in the professional tennis circuit.
The amazing 76.47% won in matches where a trophy is at stake surpassing the 72.72% shared by American Pete Sampras and Australian Rod Laver and 71.01% from Serbian Novak Djokovic.
The young tennis player from Murcia, who at 20 years old – he will be 21 on May 5 – continues being number 2 in the world and a bit closer to the lead maintained by Djokovicretained the title at Indian Wells and against the same rival he defeated in 2023, Russian Danill Medvedev.
This time from El Palmar He won 7-6 (5) and 6-1 12 months later before making it 6-3 and 6-2.
The student of Juan Carlos Ferrero, who He has not been a tournament champion since his brilliant victory at Wimbledon, has accumulated 13 ATP titles and before winning the title for the second time in Indian Wells, he won the Umag ATP 250 in 2021; the United States Open, the Masters 1,000 in Miami and Madrid and the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona in 2022; and Wimbledon, the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells and Madrid, the ATP 500 in Barcelona and Queen’s and the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires in 2023.
The strange finals of the circuit where Alcaraz and lost They are the one in Umag in 2022 and the ATP 500 in Hamburg in the same year and the one in Rio and the Masters 1,000 in Cincinnati in 2023.
The 13 titles of the Palmareños is obvious a far cry from the 109 won by American Jimmy Connorsthe player with the most trophies on the circuit at He played 164 finals between 1973 and 1988a 66.46% success for one from Illinois, who is now 71 years old.
In terms of the percentage of success in the finals, the record is for another American like Sampas, with 64 out of 88, and for the oceanic Laver, with 72 out of 99. The average for both is the same, 72.72% .
The fourth position goes to Swede Bjorn Borg, with 66 victories in 93 finals, 70.96%; and the fifth for Mallorca Rafa Nadal, with 92 out of 130, 70.76%.
Alcaraz averaged all of them after his victory in the United States, a country where he has already accumulated four titles, as well as in Spain.
Source: La Verdad
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