MURCIA. The young Murcian tennis player Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, who today appears in the post 118 of the world, achieves his top in the ATP rankings after his good week at the Andalusian Open, in which he arrived at semifinals of this AT`P 250 tournament held in the Malaga town of Marbella, which has made him climb 15 positions and exceed the 127 that had the best status.
The player from El Palmar, who on May 5 he will turn 18 years old, started from position 133 in the championship played at the Manolo Santana Racquets Club and his victories against the Serbian Nikola Milojevic, the Spanish Feliciano lopez and the norwegian Casper Ruud they have served him to continue progressing.
In the semifinals, the defeat against the Mallorcan Jaume Munar, prevented him from climbing even further, but that 118th place that he now occupies is his best ranking on a world list in which on February 22 it became 127th.
There is no news at the head of the table with the Serbian Novak Djokovic, the ruso Daniil Medvedev, the Spanish Rafa Nadal, the Austrian Dominic Thiem and greek Stefanos Tsitsipas occupying the first five positions. German appears from sixth to tenth place Alexander Zverev, the swiss Roger Federer, the russian Andrey Rublev, the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman and italian Matteo Berrettini.
Still far from them is Alcaraz, which is the twelfth Spanish player at present, which adds 645 points and is a 142 del top 100, which closes another Spanish, the Valencian Pedro Martínez Goalkeeper.
The El Palmar player, who has won $ 156,615 in prizes this year and $ 251,251 throughout his still short career, will reappear to continue competing on clay next week with an invitation place in the final table of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell-Conde de Godó Trophy.
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