MURCIA. Carlos Alcaraz Garfia has surpassed the barrier of 5,000 points in the ATP -sum 5,005 with the 357 he added more at Roland Garros– and, despite the fact that it has moved back one position and is now seventh on the listexperience the greatest progression of the leading players on the circuit compared to a year before.
After the 2021 Roland Garros tournament, the player from El Palmar, then 18 years old, occupied the 78th place with 924 points and now, 12 months later, he is consolidated in a top 10 in which the Serbian remains a year later Novak Djokovic (1)the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2)the German Alexander Zverev (3)the Majorcan Rafael Nadal (4)the greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5)the Russian Andrey Rublev (8) and Italian Matteo Berrettini (10).
In that select group have entered Alcaraz, the Norwegian Casper Ruudnow sixth -a year ago he was fifteenth-, and the Canadian Felix Augerninth when he was twenty-first.
On the contrary, they have left the top ten positions the Austrian Dominic Thiem, moving from fifth to 198th place; the swiss Roger Federer, which was eighth and now ranks 50th; and the Castellón Robert Baptistwho was in tenth place and has fallen back to twentieth.
Alcaraz, who reached the quarterfinals in Paris, a round in which he fell to Zverev 4-6, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-7 (7), beat the John Ignatius Londonerto Barcelona Albert Ramosto the American Sebastian Korda and to russian Karen Khachanovhas been overtaken by Ruud.
The Norwegian, a finalist after losing to Nadal, is now in sixth place with 5,050 points.
Ahead are Djokovic, who remains in front with 8,770; Medvedev, second with 8,160; Zverev, third with 7,795; Nadal, who becomes fourth with 7,525; and Tsitsipas, who drops one position to fifth place with 6,100.
As for the exclusive race of the year, the first position since January 1, 2022 is headed by Nadal, with 5,620 points; and followed by Alcaraz, with 3,820, with Tsitsipas third, with 3,670.
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