At only 18, the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz made his entry into the top 10 of the ATP world tennis rankings on Monday, in ninth place, and becomes the youngest to join this very closed circle since the icon Rafael Nadal in 2005. On Sunday, the revelation continued its thunderous start to the year by winning the ATP 500 tournament in Barcelona, after having already won the Masters 1000 earlier this month and the Rio tournament in February.
This success in the final against Carreno Busta (6-3, 6-2) allows him to climb two places in the ATP rankings, which in return sees the Briton Cameron Norrie (eleventh) leaving the top 10, eliminated in the quarter-finals in the Catalan city.
France far behind
Finalist in Belgrade, where he was beaten by Russian Andrey Rublev (still N.8 in the world), Novak Djokovic still sits in first place in the ATP rankings, ahead of another Russian, Daniil Medvedev, who announced in early April that he was injured, estimating that he would be absent one to two months.
On the French side, Gaël Monfils remains at the gates of the top 20, in 21st place in the world, far ahead of Ugo Humbert (N.45), Arthur Rinderknech (N.57) and Benjamin Bonzi (N.58).
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