With the crowned Barcelona Open after defeating Pablo Carreño Busta 6-3, 6-2 in the final, Carlos Alcaraz rose to 9th place on the ATP rankings. He achieved this milestone just over a month before he was 19 years old.
Thus, Alcaraz has become the youngest player in the top 10 since Rafael Nadal did this. At the age of 18, 11 months and 20 days, Alcaraz is the 9th young man in the top 10 since the ranking began to be announced in 1973.
Nadal is about a month younger than Alcaraz when the player was born in 1986 to the top 10 on April 25, 2005, and also after a title on Barcelona's clay field.
The youngest person in history is Aaron Krickstein, who is not 17 years old when he was first in the top 10 in August 1984.
With Alcaraz, he seems to be on his senior journey. Mr. Bang with Nadal on the number of ATP titles. Both have 3, at most 2022. Alcaraz has reached 23 victories, only behind Stefanos Tsitsipas, who had 24 wins this season.
On the current ATP rankings, Novak Djokovic is still at the No. 1 position after returning to the Serbia tournament. He lost Andree Rubleev in the final. Meanwhile, the Russian tennis player – Daniil Medvedev – in 2nd place, and a Russian player, Alexander Zverev in 3rd place. Meanwhile, Nadal is currently ranked 4th.
