Carlos Alcaraz is now up to a 90% career winning percentage on grass after latest win at Queen's Club

After surviving a three-hour-and-24-minute marathon against Jaume Munar on Thursday, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-5, Carlos Alcaraz had a quicker day at the office at Queen's Club on Friday, beating Arthur Rinderknech in an hour and 20 minutes, 7-5, 6-4, to reach the semifinals of the grass-court event.

And with that victory, he hits a big milestone on the surface: his career winning percentage on grass is now up to an incredible 90%.

After going 4-2 in his first two grass-court seasons in 2021 and 2022, the 22-year-old Spaniard is 23-1 on it since the start of 2023, the only loss coming to Jack Draper in the second round of Queen's Club last year.

ALCARAZ'S CAREER RECORD ON GRASS: 27-3

• 1-1 at '21 Wimbledon (l. to Medvedev in 2nd Rd)
• 3-1 at '22 Wimbledon (l. to Sinner in 4th Rd)
• 5-0 at '23 Queen's Club (won title)
• 7-0 at '23 Wimbledon (won title)
• 1-1 at '24 Queen's Club (l. to Draper in 2nd Rd)
• 7-0 at '24 Wimbledon (won title)
• 3-0 at '25 Queen's Club (SFs so far)

And there's more—even though it's among the smaller sample sizes so far, Alcaraz actually has the best career winning percentage on grass of any of the 29 current or former No. 1s in ATP rankings history (since 1973).

BEST CAREER WINNING PERCENTAGES ON GRASS, ATP NO. 1s (tour-level):

• .900: Carlos Alcaraz [27-3]
• .869: Roger Federer [192-29]
• .858: John McEnroe [121-20]
• .857: Novak Djokovic [120-20]
• .835: Pete Sampras [101-20]
• .830: Jimmy Connors [185-38]
• .823: Boris Becker [116-25]
• .818: Bjorn Borg [72-16]
• .799: Andy Murray [119-30]
• .796: Andy Roddick [86-22]
• .792: Rafael Nadal [76-20]
• .786: Stefan Edberg [99-27]
• .785: John Newcombe [164-45]
• .759: Lleyton Hewitt [129-41]
• .750: Ivan Lendl [81-27]
• .747: Patrick Rafter [74-25]
• .746: Mats Wilander [50-17]
• .735: Andre Agassi [50-18]
• .724: Ilie Nastase [84-32]
• .697: Yevgeny Kafelnikov [46-20]
• .688: Jannik Sinner [22-10]
• .685: Daniil Medvedev [50-23]
• .622: Jim Courier [28-17]
• .612: Juan Carlos Ferrero [30-19]
• .578: Marat Safin [26-19]
• .500: Marcelo Rios [6-6]
• .467: Gustavo Kuerten [7-8]
• .464: Carlos Moya [13-15]
• .412: Thomas Muster [7-10]

Towards the end of the first set on Friday, it looked like Alcaraz might be in trouble for a second straight day, as he found himself serving at 4-5, 0-30—but he shifted into high gear from there, winning 13 of the next 17 points to close out the first set, then breaking Rinderknech one last time midway through the second set en route to the straight-set victory.

It was the world No. 2's tour-leading 40th win of the season, and his 16th in a row, which is the longest winning streak of his career.

Awaiting the No. 1-seeded Spaniard in the semifinals will be either No. 4-seeded Holger Rune or former Top 10 player Roberto Bautista Agut, who played the last quarterfinal match of the day.