After a year of an irruption that few remember in the world of tennis, The Murcian is already among the four best tennis players on the planet at the age of 19, position in which he will appear on Monday after standing in the Umag final. He will do it after Rafa Nadal, Carlos Moyá, Ferrero, Álex Corretja, Manuel Orantes, Ferrer and Bruguera. The very young Spaniard fights this Sunday for the title in the ATP 250 that he already conquered last year (being the first to win as a professional). His 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Italy’s Giulio Zeppieri in the semi-finals It allows you to move up a position for now with your 5,035 points already confirmedand overtake the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Ahead still has the Russian Medvedev, Zverev and Nadal, while in the classification of the year only the Mallorcan is higher than Alcaraz, that in this 2022 he has 41 wins and only six losses and has won four titles, the Masters 1000 in Miami and Madrid and the ATP500 in Rio and Barcelona. Seven Spaniards have been above him in history: Nadal, Moyá and Ferrero, his current coach, who came to occupy number 1; Corretja and Orantes, who were in second place, and Ferrer and Bruguera, who came in third. In the final this Sunday in Umgag the rival will be the Italian Jannik Sinner, who beat his compatriot Franco Agamenone 6-1, 6-3 in just 1 hour and 25 minutes, which is how long the second semifinal lasted. The one from San Cándido, 20 years old and number 10 in the world, He was the one who got Alcaraz out of the Wimbledon round of 16 on July 3.
