Carlos Alcaraz Garfia

Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (Spanish: Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, May 5, 2003 -) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked No. 1 in the world in singles and is a seven-time Grand Slam winner. So far, Alcaraz has won 26 ATP Tour-level singles championships, including 7 Grand Slam championships and 8 ATP 1000 championships, making him the youngest Grand Slam winner in history. The 2022 US Open men's singles competition was his first Grand Slam men's singles championship. He also became the youngest world number one (19 years and 4 months old) since the birth of the ATP ranking system in 1973. He is the youngest US Open champion after Pete Sampras in 1990 (19 years and 1 month old), the French Open champion in 1989 (17 years old) by Chang Depei, and the youngest Grand Slam men's singles champion after Rafael Nadal (19 years and 2 days old) at the 2005 French Open. In 2022, Carlos Alcaraz became the youngest year-end No. 1 in ATP history (19 years and 214 days old), also breaking the 18-year monopoly of the "Big Four" on this honor. In 2024, win the French Open and Wimbledon consecutively and complete the Channel Grand Slam. In 2025, he won the French Open and the US Open respectively. In 2026, he won his first Australian Open after defeating Djokovic in the Australian Open final, and achieved the youngest Grand Slam in men's history at the age of 22 years and 272 days. As a teenager, he peaked at No. 22 in the world and won two ITF Junior Tour titles. In 2018, he switched to professional tennis. Entering the men's singles final and winning the championship at the 2021 Umag Open in Croatia, he became the youngest player to win an ATP Tour title since Kei Nishikori in 2008. After the 2021 US Open, his world ranking rose to the top 50, and he won the ATP New Generation Finals championship at the end of the year. Winning the 2022 Brazilian Open, becoming the youngest ATP500 Tour champion and entering the top 20 in the world. In the same year, he won the Miami Open and became the third youngest ATP1000 Tour champion. Due to the age at which he won the Masters and Barcelona Tennis Championships for the first time, and the Spanish senior Rafael Nadal who also won the Masters and Barcelona Tennis Championships for the first time in 2005, he was both 18 years old. Alcaraz is generally considered by Spanish fans to be the successor player in Spanish men's tennis for the next generation of Nadal.