After the appointment at Wimbledon, the Spanish tennis player continues to lead the world ranking and also ensured his presence in the tournament that will close the season in Italy.
Carlos Alcaraznumber one in the world, became the first tennis player to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals for his new success in Wimbledon, the ATP announced on Monday after the ranking update. The 20-year-old tennis player from Murcia has qualified for the second consecutive year in the tournament that will close the professional circuit season, scheduled this year between November 12 and 19 at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, Italy .
Alcaraz leads the ATP Tour this year in victories (47-4), in winning percentage (92.2 percent) and also in the number of trophies won (6) with a major (Wimbledon), two ATP Masters 1000 (Indian Wells and Madrid), two ATP 500 (Barcelona and Queen’s Club) and one ATP 250 (Buenos Aires).
The Spaniard leads the world rankings with 9,675 points, ahead of the Serbian. Novak Djokovic (8,795), Russian Daniel Medvedev (6,520), Norwegian Casper Ruud (5,005) and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (4,850).
The top ten positions are completed by the Danish Holger Rune (4,825), the Russian Andrey Rublev (4,525), the Italian Jannik Sinner (3,975) and the Americans Taylor Fritz (3,310) and Frances Tiafoe (3,130).
As for Argentines, the tennis players in the top 100 are as follows: Francisco Cerúndolo (20°, -1), Tomás Etcheverry (34°, -2), Sebastián Báez (63°, -17), Pedro Cachín (90°, -22), Facundo Díaz Acosta (97°, +18), Diego Schwartzman (98°) and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (100°, +11).
Source: Tycsports
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