The 22 -year -old Spaniard won his 6th Grand Slam tournament. He walks in the footsteps of the biggest. Illustration in figures.
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The Spaniard conceded only one set during the tournament, in the final against Jannik Sinner, who won the second round 6-3 on his only break ball in the meeting.
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In 2022, already in New York, Alcaraz had a double blow by winning his 1is Title in Grand Chelem and by accessing in place of the world’s number 1, becoming at 19, the youngest player to rise to the place of world number 1 since the development of the classification (1973).
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At 22 and 125 days old, he became the second youngest player in the Open era to count six big chelems, just behind Björn Borg (22 years and 32 days).
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As in 2024, the two kings of the ATP circuit (Alcaraz and Sinner) will conclude the season with each two Grand Slam titles in their bag: the Australian Open and Wimbledon for the 24-year-old Italian, Roland-Garros and the US Open for his youngest.
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Alcaraz is one of the only three players in the Open era who managed to win six Grand Chelem titles before celebrating their 23 years. If he won Melbourne, next January, he would become the only one to win seven at this age and would then exceed Björn Borg and Rafael Nadal.
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With six Grand Chelem titles on the clock, the prodigy becomes the equal of Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Donald Budge, Jack Crawford, Anthony Wilding and Lawrence Doherty.
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In seven Grand Chelem finals contested, Alcaraz won six. His only defeat at this stage of the competition dates back to the last Wimbledon, where he had been dominated by Jannik Sinner (4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4).
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The Murcien only needed eight participations in a Grand Colem tournament to win one, thus equaling Pete Sampras. There are only 8 players to have done better in the Open era: Edmondson, Wilander and Kuerten (3), Becker (4), Chang (5), Borg and Nadal (6), McENROE (7).
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The pupil of Juan-Carlos Ferrero has reached the eight final of the last eight tournaments he has played in the past five months. You have to go back to the Miami Masters 1000 in March to find a tournament with a final without the Murcian. His season is already exceptional for him who has crossed the CAP of 60 victories.
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Alcaraz faced Sinner for the 15th time on Sunday evening. The Spaniard now conducts 10 victories at 5 and won 7 of the last 8 duels. In a big home, this gives 4-2 in favor of Alcaraz (2-1 in the final).
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The Spaniard has been the first player since 1991 to have won a Grand Chelem tournament having conceded only 10 break balls on his journey. He dethrones Roger Federer who had conceded 12 break balls during the 2006 edition of Wimbledon.
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Alcaraz will become world number 1 again on Monday and will start a 37th week of reign at the head of the ATP ranking.
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Three years ago, then 19, he became the youngest player to beat Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (and the first to do it on clay), on the title road in Masters 1000, in Madrid.
