Roland Garros: Carlos Alcaraz the youngest player champion on all three surfaces

The Spanish Carlos Alcarazwith his victory this Sunday in the final of the tournament Roland Garros against the German Alexander Zverev by 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1 and 6-2, he becomes the youngest player to be champion on all three surfaces – clay, hard court and grass. a new record of precocity for the Murcian, who has already won 14 ATP titles in 18 finals played, including this one in Paris and those at the United States Open in 2022 and Wimbledon in 2023.

The pupil of Juan Carlos Ferrero, who knew how to suffer to end up enjoying Philippe Chatrier on the court, registers his name as the winner and continues to make history at his young age. No one, at the age of 21 years, 1 month and 4 days – he was born on May 5, 2003 in El Palmar – was able to achieve glory in the three fields in which tennis is played on the professional circuit.

To his success on fast surfaces in New York and on grass in London he added his victory in the capital of France, breaking the youth record. Rafa Nadal, who follows him in that classification, did so at the age of 22 and a half when he won at Roland Garros for the first time in 2005; at Wimbledon in 2008 and at the Australian Open in 2009.

Neither the Americans Andre Agassi and Jim Courier, nor the Swedes Bjorn Borg and Mats Wilander, nor Nadal himself… no one imposed his dominance on the three surfaces as young as Alcaraz is today, who in less than two years, since his success New Yorker – he defeated the Norwegian Casper Ruud by 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1) and 6-3 – to the Parisian via the Londoner – he defeated the Serbian Novak Djokovic by 1-6, 7-6 ( 6), 6-1, 3-6 and 6-4-, completed this winning trio. The only major he is missing is the Australian Open, in which this season he lost in the quarterfinals precisely against Zverev.

There are already 14 titles in 18 finals

Furthermore, this Sunday it was demonstrated that Alcaraz, despite his youth, has more than proven solvency when the most is at stake and, not in vain, he has accumulated 14 titles in 18 finals played on the ATP circuit.

To the aforementioned successes at the US Open, Wimbledon and now Roland Garros are added those of the Masters 1,000 in Madrid (2022 and 2023), Indian Wells (2023 and 2024), Miami (2022), those of the ATP 500 in Barcelona ( 2022 and 2023), Queen’s (2023) and Rio de Janeiro (2022) and those of the ATP 250 of Umag (2021) and Buenos Aires (2023).

He only lost the Umag finals and the Hamburg ATP 500 in 2022 and in 2023 the Rio and Cincinnati Masters 1000 finals.

By surfaces, Alcaraz has eight ATP trophies on clay, four on hard courts and two on grass.