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Factbox-Tennis-Wimbledon Men's Singles Champion Carlos Alcaraz
LONDON (Reuters) Facts about Carlos Alcaraz, who defeated Serbian number two Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-2 7-6(4) in the Wimbledon final on Sunday to win his fourth Grand Slam title.
Age: 21
Country: Spain
ATP Ranking: 3
Sowing: 3
Grand Slam titles: 4 (US Open 2022, Wimbledon 2023, French Open 2024, Wimbledon 2024)
ROAD TO THE FINAL
First round: Mark Lajal (Estonia) 7-6(3) 7-5 6-2
Second round: Aleksandar Vukic (Australia) 7-5(5) 6-2 6-2
Third round: 29-Frances Tiafoe (USA) 5-7 6-2 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2
Round of 16: 16-Ugo Humbert (France) 6-3 6-4 1-6 7-5
Quarterfinals: 12-Tommy Paul (USA) 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-2
Semi-finals: 5-Daniil Medvedev (Russia) 6-7(1) 6-3 6-4 6-4
EARLY LIFE
* Alcaraz was born in El Palmar and started playing tennis at the age of four at Real Sociedad Club de Campo de Murcia, where his father was director of the tennis academy.
CAREER SO FAR
* Made his ATP main draw debut at the age of 16 at the 2020 Rio Open.
* In 2021, Alcaraz became the youngest man in the professional era to reach the quarterfinals of the US Open.
* Became the first teenager to defeat fellow Spaniard Rafa Nadal and Serbian Djokovic, who lead the men's Grand Slam winners list, in the same tournament and on consecutive days to win his second ATP Masters 1000 title at the 2022 Madrid Open.
* Outclassed Norwegian Casper Ruud to win his first major title at the 2022 US Open, becoming the youngest champion at Flushing Meadows since American Pete Sampras (19) in 1990. That year, at the age of 19, four months and six days, he became the youngest world number one in the history of the ATP rankings.
* As a teenager he won nine titles, behind only Bjorn Borg, Nadal, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker and Andre Agassi.
* Defeated Djokovic to win Wimbledon 2023, becoming the first man outside the Big Four of Djokovic, Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray to win at the All England Club since 2002.
* Defeated Alexander Zverev in the final of Roland Garros in 2024 to become, at age 21, the youngest man ever to win a Grand Slam title on all three surfaces – hard, grass and clay.
* Defeat Djokovic again in the 2024 Wimbledon final, taking his Grand Slam final win-loss record to 4-0. He would become only the sixth man in the professional era to win the French Open-Wimbledon double in the same year, after Rod Laver, Borg, Nadal, Federer and Djokovic.
(Compiled by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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