Carlos Alcaraz records milestone 300th win of career with quarterfinal victory in Monte Carlo

After surviving a tough three-setter in his third-round match on Thursday, Carlos Alcaraz bounced back at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters on Friday, cruising to a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Alexander Bublik in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 event.

And it was a special victory—the 300th win of his career.

"Obviously I'm really happy about my 300th win in the ATP tour," he said in his on-court interview. "Hopefully many more to come!"

The 22-year-old Spaniard is just the second man born in the 2000s to record 300 career wins, after 24-year-old Jannik Sinner, who just notched his 343rd earlier on Friday in Monte Carlo.

And there’s more—he’s gotten to 300 wins in almost record time.

Alcaraz has recorded his 300th career win in his 367th career match played (he's now 300-67 following his victory over Bublik).

That’s fewer matches played than any of the Big 3 had played when they got to the 300-career-win milestone, just edging Rafael Nadal’s 373 matches (300-73) and far surpassing Novak Djokovic’s 398 (300-98) and Roger Federer’s 416 (300-116).

He comes in below his chief rival Sinner, too—the Italian hit that milestone in his 384th career match (300-84).

In fact, in the Open Era, and among men who started playing in the Open Era, Alcaraz is tied for second-fewest matches played to get to 300 career wins, trailing only Jimmy Connors' 363 (300-63) and equaling John McEnroe's 367 (300-67).

After battling over two hours to defeat Tomas Martin Etcheverry the day before, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, Alcaraz was in no danger whatsoever as he played Bublik for the first time in his career on Friday.

There were a few tricky moments very early on—Alcaraz broke early en route to a 2-0 lead, but Bublik won three games in a row, which included getting the break back, to go up 3-2, on serve.

But Alcaraz rolled from there, reeling off 10 games in a row—with only one of them going to deuce—to completely run away with it against the world No. 11 after just 63 minutes on court.

Awaiting the No. 1-seeded Alcaraz in the semifinals will be the winner of the last quarterfinal match between No. 5-seeded Alex de Minaur and unseeded Valentin Vacherot.