YOGYAKARTA The world tennis ranking is always updated by the official Pepperstone Association of Professional Tennis (ATP) every Monday. Currently, the world's men's tennis ranking is occupied by Carlos Alcaraz. Interestingly, Alcaraz achieved this achievement at a very young age, which is 19.
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia is the son of Carlos Alcaraz Gonzalez and Virginia Garfia. He was born in Murcia, Spain, May 5, 2003. He is the second of four children.
Alcaraz plays tennis because he follows in his father's footsteps. Gonzalez is one of 40 top players in his country who is also the director of the tennis academy.
Alcaraz started his career by joining Real Sociedad Club de Campo de Murcia, where his father worked as a director. In 2018, he started playing at Juan Carlos F?'s Equelite Academy.
The highest ranking he has ever achieved at the junior level is number 22 in the world. He also won two titles at the ITF Junior Circuit.
In the US Open 2022 tournament, Alcaraz managed to impress. He managed to make a new history after winning his first Grand Slam title in the tournament. He became the youngest tennis player to occupy the world's first ranking in the history of Pepperstone ATP Rankings.
In the US Open final which was held at Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York, Monday, September 12, 2022 morning, Indonesian Western Time (WIB), Alcaraz succeeded in overthrowing Norwegian tennis player Yogyakarta Ruud with a score of 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1), and 6-3.
The match is not only for the title, but also for determining who will rank one in the world.
Alcaraz beat Ruud in three hours 20 minutes. He finished the tournament by spending a total of 23 hours 40 minutes on the pitch after competing up to five sets, from the fourth half to the semifinals.
After winning the Grand Slam US Open, Alcaraz became the youngest player to rank first at ATP (since 1973). He managed to surpass Lyeton Hewitt's 20-year-old record when he became number one in 2001.
Not only that, Alcaraz also became the first teenager to rank at ATP. He evicted Daniil Medvedev who was kicked out in the fourth round of the US Open. Alcaras became the youngest grand slam champion after Rafael Nadal lifted his French Open hat in 2005 at the same age.
Latest World Tennis Ranking
As mentioned above, the world men's tennis ranking is always updated by ATP every Monday.
Based on VOI's monitoring on the official Association of Tennis Professionals website, Carlos Alcaraz won the first rank with 6,730 points. He is slightly superior to Rafael Nadal, who has won the grand slam 22 times with 581 points.
In the US Open turnaame, Nadal, who was 36 years old and ranked first for 209 weeks, was eliminated in the round of 16.
The following is the top 20 world tennis ranking updated by ATP on October 15, 2022.
That's the latest information about world tennis rankings.
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