Carlos Alcaraz, player with the greatest progression in the top 50

Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image, who at 18 years old is the 32nd tennis player in the world and the only one of his age who appears in the top 100 of the ATP, has experienced in this 2021 that it is about to end the highest rise of the players who occupy one of the top 50 positions in the ranking, by gaining 109 positions, from 141 with which the year began.

This has been indicated by the Association of Professional Tennis Players when analyzing the statistics of a season in which what was done by the young Murcian stands out from El Palmar, winner of the ATP 250 of Umag in Croatia and of the Next Gens ATP Finals in the Italian city of Milan.

Alcaraz, who reached the quarterfinals at the US Open and also made it through one round in Australia and Wimbledon and two at Roland Garros, climbed those 109 positions, which are 15 more than the Russian Aslan Karatsev progressed, from position 112 to 18.

For his part, the American Sebastian Korda won 77 places, going from 118 to 41; the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka, 60 -from 108 to 48- and the British Cameron Norrie, 59 -from 71 to 12-.

Interestingly, Alcaraz beat Korda, Ivashka and Norrie in the three games he played against them in 2021, in which he did not face Karatsev, but he did face other top-level players who he won, such as the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Italians Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner and the British Andy Murray.

Juan Carlos Ferrero’s ward It also appears in the section of the players who were champions on the ATP Tour circuit for the first time in this 2021, a list of ten tennis players.

Carlos Alcaraz, champion in Umag

The Murcian conquered the title in Umag with 18 years, seven months and 20 days beating Frenchman Richard Gasquet by a double 6-2.

The palmareño was the youngest player to have a new record this year and the other nine first-timers are the British Daniel Evans, the Argentine Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, the Australian Alexei Popyrin, the South Korean Soonwoo Kwon and the American Tommy Paul, plus the aforementioned Karatsev, Norrie, Korda and Ivashka

As for baggage of victories and defeats, the palm goes to the Russian Daniil Medvedev, world number 2, who won 63 matches on the circuit and lost only 13.

Alcaraz reached a not inconsiderable 32-17 for what is his first full year as a tennis professional.