![]() Alcaraz in 2024 | ||||||||||||
Full name | Carlos Alcaraz Garfia | |||||||||||
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Country (sports) | ![]() | |||||||||||
Residence | Villena, Alicante, Spain | |||||||||||
Born | El Palmar, Murcia, Spain | 5 May 2003|||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | |||||||||||
Turned pro | 2018 | |||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | |||||||||||
Coach | Juan Carlos Ferrero | |||||||||||
Prize money | US$34,992,775[2] | |||||||||||
Singles | ||||||||||||
Career record | 193–51 (79.4%) | |||||||||||
Career titles | 15 | |||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 1 (12 September 2022) | |||||||||||
Current ranking | No. 3 (24 June 2024)[3] | |||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||
Australian Open | QF (2024) | |||||||||||
French Open | W (2024) | |||||||||||
Wimbledon | W (2023, 2024) | |||||||||||
US Open | W (2022) | |||||||||||
Other tournaments | ||||||||||||
Tour Finals | SF (2023) | |||||||||||
Olympic Games | F (2024) | |||||||||||
Doubles | ||||||||||||
Career record | 5–4 (55.6%) | |||||||||||
Career titles | 0 | |||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 519 (9 May 2022) | |||||||||||
Other doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||
Olympic Games | QF (2024) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated on: 5 August 2024. |
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos alkaˈɾaθ ˈɣaɾfja];[4] born 5 May 2003) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as World No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Alcaraz has won 15 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including four Grand Slam titles and five Masters 1000 titles.Alcaraz began his professional career in 2018 aged 15, going on to win three titles on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour and four on the ATP Challenger Tour. He broke into the top 100 in rankings in May 2021, and ended that year in the top 35 after reaching his first major quarterfinal at the US Open. In March 2022, Alcaraz won his first Masters 1000 title at the Miami Open at the age of 18, and then won his second at the Madrid Open where he defeated Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Alexander Zverev in succession. In late 2022, Alcaraz won his first major singles title at the 2022 US Open, becoming the youngest man and the first male teenager in the Open Era to top the singles rankings, at 19 years, 4 months, and 6 days old.[5][6][7] Finishing the year as the youngest year-end No. 1 in ATP ranking history, he was later named the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year for his performance in the season. In 2023, Alcaraz claimed two additional Masters 1000 titles at Indian Wells and Madrid and his second Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships. In 2024, he won his third and fourth major titles at the French Open[8] and Wimbledon,[9] followed by an Olympic silver medal at the Paris Olympics.