Alcaraz, a new title to hunt Sinner and his mentor Ferrero

Carlos Alcaraz This Wednesday he extended his great 2024 in his conquest fourth trophy of the season. Winner of two giant events such as Roland Garros and Wimbledon and a Masters 1000 such as Indian Wells, as well as Olympic silver, he won the Beijing ATP 500 a new tournament and he did it against his great generational rival, Jannik Sinner.

It was in a high-profile match that the sixteenth ATP title from Spanish. On his mark, Alcaraz once again became the player of his generation with the most trophies won on the circuit, this time bound to a Sinner who overtook him in recent months after his good work in 2024. Also surprisingly, the two share finals statistics: sixteen wins and five losses.

Alcaraz started the season as the leader of this particular statistic with twelve titles. The sinner of ten did this. The Spaniard’s victories at Indian Wells, Roland Garros and Wimbledon this year have allowed him to continue leading the way with fifteen ahead of an American tour where Sinner is just one title away after winning the Australian Open, Rotterdam , Miami and Halle. However, in this particular match, the Italian won the Cincinnati and US Open to put himself a notch ahead of the Spaniard.

It’s just a statistic, but, with the trophy won on Chinese soil, Alcaraz once again put the difference between the two in defining individual ATP tournaments. Of course, considering the quality of the trophies, the Spaniard is clearly the winner with four Grand Slams compared to two for Sinner and five Masters 1000s against the three of an Italian player recovering his combination of eleven twisted between 500 titles and 250 compared to seven for Spanish. However, this equality is gone another incentive before the Shanghai and Paris Masters 1000 and the ATP Finalsbecause this could be the tiebreaker between the two.

But Alcaraz didn’t just chase Sinner to his sixteenth ATP title. He also reached out to one of his great references, his coach. Juan Carlos Ferrero. The second number 1 in the history of Spanish tennis ended his career with sixteen ATP titles, a figure already equaled by Alcaraz at just twenty-one years old. It also maintains the Murcian’s rise in the historical lists of Spanish tennis.

Alcaraz also equaled the sixteen ATP titles of Jose Higueras and now too shares the historic sixth national position with the same players, although the overall player titles of El Palmar, with four Grand Slams and five Masters 1000, are in a higher category. But the current world number 2 is just one step away from the national top 5 who will close with seventeen ATP titles. Alex Corretja. Trying to hunt him down this year was possible for an Alcaraz who seemed to be only moments away from climbing a ladder where they were neither too far nor too far away. Carlos Moya (twenty titles) by David Ferrer (twenty seven).

Above are the thirty-four titles of Manuel Orantes and the legendary and far-flung ninety-two in Rafael Nadal. On a historical level, Alcaraz’s sixteen titles have already left him within the ATP top60close to fiftieth place shared with eighteen trophies by Michael Stich, Marcelo Ríos and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. This is another milestone that the Spanish player can fight for this season.

Carlos Alcaraz in the ATP title rankings

Spaniards with the most individual ATP titles
1. Rafael Nadal 92
2. Manuel Orantes 34
3. David Ferrer 27
4. Carlos Moya 20
5. Alex Corretja 17
6. Carlos Alcaraz 16
6. Juan Carlos Ferrero 16
6. José Higueras 16
9. Emilio Sánchez Vicario 15
10. Sergi Bruguera 14
11. Alberto Berasategui 14
The
Active players with the most individual ATP titles
*In parentheses, his historic ATP position in this statistic
1. Novak Djokovic 99 (3rd)
2. Rafael Nadal 92 (5th)
3. Alexander Zverev 22 (tied for 34th)
4. Marin Cilic 21 (tied for 40th)
5. Daniil Medvedev 20 (tied for 44th)
6. Dominic Thiem 17 (tied for 53rd)
7. Carlos Alcaraz 16 (tied for 56th)
7. Jannik Sinner 16 (tied for 56th)
7. Stan Wawrinka 16 (tied 56th)
7. Richard Gasquet 16 (tied for 56th)
7. Andrey Rublev 16 (tied for 56th)
12. Kei Nishikori 12 (tied 87th)
12. Gaël Monfils 12 (tied 87th)
14. Roberto Bautista 11 (96th tied)
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*Thiem and Gasquet announced they will retire at the end of the season. Andy Murray (46 titles) and John Isner (16 titles) retired in recent weeks.