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MURCIA - It was a dream week for 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz from Murcia. The number 6 on the ATP Ranking list since Monday managed to send both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic home in a week and then managed to beat the 2021 winner German Alexander Zverev in an too easy match in just 62 minutes and two sets. . He thus crowned himself the winner of the Mutua Madrid Open for the first time.
Carlos Alcaraz has become the tenth different winner of the twentieth Mutua Madrid Open. Rafael Nadal has won this Spanish tennis tournament five times (2005, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2017), Novak Djokovic three times (2011, 2016 and 2019) and Alexander Zverev (2018 and 2021) and Andy Murray (2008 and 2015) each. twice. The 19-year-old Alcaraz is now (for the time being) in the list of players who once won the title in Madrid, consisting of André Agassi (2002), the current coach of Alcaraz, Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003), Marat Safin (2004 ) and Argentina's David Nalbandian (2007).
The final ended on Sunday in a 6-3, 6-1 win for Carlos Alcaraz, wiping out the title holder Alexander Zverev in a game of just 62 minutes. Before that, the young Spaniard also managed to send the top player Novak Djokovic home after a 3 hours and 35 minutes long game (7-6, 5-7, 6-7). The day before, Alcaraz had already beaten his compatriot Rafael Nadal in a 2 hour and 28 minute game (2-6, 6-1, 3-6).
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia was born on May 5, 2003 in El Palmar in Murcia and now lives in Villena where Spanish tennis legend Juan Carlos Ferrero trains him. Only in 2019 did Alcaraz win his first major international prize when he became the first Spanish tennis player born in 2003 to win the Challenger tournament, a year after he became a professional tennis player in 2018. The young Spaniard is now in 6th place on the ATP Ranking list. The Spanish tennis player of just 19 years has already amassed more than $5 million in prize money in singles and doubles matches. There is already talk in Spain about the successor to Rafael Nadal.
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