*Facts About Carlos Alcaraz*

*Facts About Carlos Alcaraz* 🎾Alcaraz is the first man born in the 2000s to win a major; not only that, but he is also the third man born in 1990 or later to have achieved such a feat. The other two are 2020 US Open winner Dominic Thiem, born in 1993, and 2021 US Open champion Daniil Medvedev, born in 199 🎾He is also the fourth player – male or female – born in the 2000s to win a major, after Bianca Andreescu, Iga Swiatek, and Emma Raducanu 🎾Alcaraz is also the second teenager to win the US Open men’s title in the Open Era and the first since Pete Sampras won it in 1990 🎾The Spaniard is the first man to win a Grand Slam title after facing match points since Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon in 2019 🎾On the back of his success at Flushing Meadows, Alcaraz became the first teenager to top the ATP Rankings 🎾The 19-year-old was the first man born in the 2000s to secure the world No 1 spot 🎾He is also the only man born in the 2000s to reach the top five 🎾Alcaraz is also the fourth Spanish man to reach No 1 in the ATP Rankings. The others are Rafael Nadal, Carlos Moya, and his mentor Juan Carlos Ferrero 🎾Alcaraz has won twelve ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2023 Wimbledon Championships, 2022 US Open, and four Masters 1000 titles 🎾Alcaraz (20 years 72 days) is the third-youngest men’s champion at Wimbledon after Bjorn Borg (20 years 27 days, 1976)and Boris Becker (17 years 227 days, 1985; 18 years 226 days, 1986 🎾Alcaraz is the third youngest player in the last 40 years to win six or more titles in a single season, older only than Andre Agassi in 1988 and Nadal in 2005 🎾Alcaraz is the first man outside the Big Four - Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and Roger Federer - to win the Wimbledon title in the last 21 years (Lleyton Hewitt, 2002) 🎾Alcaraz also ended Djokovic’s 45-match winning streak on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, the longest such streak by any player since the court was opened in 1922 🎾Alcaraz ended Djokovic’s 34-match winning streak at Wimbledon 🎾The 2023 Wimbledon final between Alcaraz and Djokovic was the 51st time in the Open era that a men’s singles Grand Slam summit clash was contested between the top two seeds. Alcaraz’s victory is the 26th instance of the top seed beating the second seed 🎾Alcaraz is the first man to defeat three Top-10 players on his way to the men’s singles title at The Championships since Pete Sampras in 1994 (Michael Chang, Todd Martin and Goran Ivanisevic)