Will turn 22 on
- 5/3/2025
What he’s done since last summer
- Won three ATP Challenger titles
- Reached the third round of Roland Garros (2021)
- Earned his first Top 20 win (David Goffin)
Key Stat
- From January 2020 to April 2021, Alcaraz moved up 372 spots in the rankings.
The Spanish teenager began his march up the ATP rankings at the start of 2020, and if quarantine had any impact on his progress, it only made him stronger. Two pre-lockdown victories on the Futures level foreshadowed a dominant summer on the Challenger circuit, winning three titles out of four finals to punctuate a leap of over 350 spots.
An ostensibly meteoric rise began in earnest a few years earlier, when he joined an academy run by former world No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero. Ferrero, who now travels with the 18-year-old, won his French Open title in 2003—several weeks after Alcarez was born.