Alcaraz crossed the barrier by 5,000 points and rose 71 positions in a year

Carlos Alcaraz exceeded the 5,000 -point barrier in the ATP — he added 5,005 along with the 357 he overachieved at Roland Garros — and, despite the fact that he had fallen into one position and is now seventh on the list, he experienced Greater growth of the top players on the circuit compared to a year earlier.

After the 2021 Roland Garros tournament, the player from El Palmar, was 18 years old, was ranked 78th with 924 points, and now, 12 months later, he is compiled into a top 10 where Serbian stays a year after Novak Djokovic (1), Russian Daniil Medvedev (2), German Alexander Zverev (3), Mallorcan Rafa Nadal (4), Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), Russian Andrey Rublev (8) and the Italian Matteo Berrettini (10).

In that select group entered Alcaraz, Norwegian Casper Ruud, who is now sixth -a year ago he was fifteenth-, and Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime, ninth when he was twenty-one. .

In contrast, Austrian Dominic Thiem left the top ten position, from fifth place at number 198; the Swiss Roger Federer, who is eighth and now in 50th place; and Roberto Bautista from Castellón, who was in tenth place and back in twentieth.

Alcaraz, who reached the quarterfinals in Paris, a round in which he fell to Zverev 4-6, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-7 (7), defeated Juan Ignacio in the second Grand Slam of the Londero season. , Barcelona’s Albert Ramos, American Sebastian Korda and Russian Karen Khachanov, and was overtaken by Ruud.

The Norwegian, a finalist after losing to Nadal, is in sixth place with 5,050 points.

Djokovic leads, remaining ahead with 8,770; Medvedev, second with 8,160; Zverev, third with 7,795; Nadal, who finished fourth with 7,525; and Tsitsipas, which dropped one position to fifth place with 6,100.

As for the exclusive race of the year, the first position since January 1, 2022 is led by Nadal, with 5,620 points; and was followed by Alcaraz, with 3,820, with Tsitsipas third, with 3,670.