Carlos Alcaraz - world number 1 tennis player 2025

(NLDO) - Defeating Lorenzo Musetti 2-0 (6/4, 6/1), Carlos Alcaraz officially became the world's number 1 male tennis player in 2025 from the early morning of November 14.

Alcaraz needed one more win at the ATP Finals to secure the ATP No. 1 ranking in 2025, and he achieved his goal by beating home player Musetti in the final group stage match to top the standings with three wins.

With this in mind, Alcaraz said that this was a very important match so he felt nervous and that was the reason why he had a bad start. Alcaraz said that he tried to control his mental state as best as possible and in the end he was satisfied with what he showed from the beginning of the tournament as well as throughout 2005 to finish as number 1.

Accelerate to the finish line

Italian audiences have warmly supported Musetti and that is also a way to indirectly support their favorite child Jannik Sinner in the race for the number 1 position with Alcaraz.

In that situation, as well as wanting to beat Alcaraz to secure a place in the semi-finals, Musetti started very well and always made Alcaraz struggle. But his bravery - the difference between the world's top players and the rest - helped Alcaraz win the first set when in the 10th game he won the tie-break when Musetti served to win 6/4.

In the second set, when all the pressure was released, everything became easier and with two breaks of the opponent's serve, Alcaraz quickly won 6/1.

With this win, Alcaraz was awarded 200 more points to get 11,650 points, the number of points that guarantees the No. 1 position in 2025 because if he is eliminated in the semi-finals, and Jannik Sinner wins the remaining 3 matches including 1 in the group stage, 1 semi-final and 1 final, Sinner will only get a maximum of 11,500 points.

The race to be the number 1 tennis player in 2025 has officially ended with Alcaraz winning.

Impressive milestones

In 2022, at the age of 19, Alcaraz became the youngest player to end the year as No. 1 since 1973.

In 2025, Alcaraz had a poor start when he only reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, the only Grand Slam he could not win, having previously won the US Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

In 2025, Alcaraz has made a spectacular breakthrough since April, instead of previous years when Alcaraz always started very well and then declined or even declined at the end of the season. Therefore, from April until now, Alcaraz has led the ATP rankings with 8 championship titles including 2 Grand Slams (Roland Garros, US Open); 3 Master 1000 tournaments (Monte-Carlo, Rome, Cincinnati) and 3 ATP 500 tournaments (Rotterdam, Queen's Club, Tokyo).

With two wins at Roland Garros and the US Open, Alcaraz became the second youngest player in the open era to win six Grand Slam titles, behind only Bjorn Borg, who was also just 22 when he achieved this milestone.

Alcaraz made a lasting impression at Roland Garros, saving three championship points against Sinner in the final, which was also the longest final in the tournament's history at five hours and 29 minutes.

The victory made Alcaraz the ninth player in the Open Era to come back from two sets down in a singles final, and the first to do so at Roland Garros since 2004, when Gaston Gaudio overcame Guillermo Coria.

With his victory at the US Open, despite dropping just one set, Alcaraz became the youngest of four men to win multiple major titles on the three surfaces of clay, grass and hard courts. The other three are Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Mats Wilander.

Alcaraz has been the most consistent player in 2025, reaching the finals of nine consecutive tournaments from the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in April to the Kinoshita Group Japan Open tennis championships in Tokyo in September.

Alcaraz has won 17 consecutive ATP Masters 1000 matches since the Monte-Carlo tournament began, leading up to his Cincinnati Open title. Since the Masters 1000 system was introduced in 1990, only Djokovic, Roger Federer, Nadal and Pete Sampras have had longer winning streaks at this level.

As the 2025 No. 1, Alcaraz joins Borg, Stefan Edberg and Lleyton Hewitt as the only two players to have finished as the year-end ATP No. 1, and Alcraz is the 11th player to finish as the year-end No. 1 more than once.

ATP President Andrea Gaudenzi said: "Finishing the season as world No. 1 is an incredible achievement - something only 19 players have achieved in over 50 years of history. To do it twice at the age of 22 makes it even more special. This speaks not only to Carlos's exceptional talent, but also to his relentless drive to improve and his determination to compete with the best. We look forward to watching him continue to inspire fans around the world."

After completing the first goal of winning one more match to become the number 1 player of the year, now Alcaraz needs two more wins in the semi-finals and final to own another ATP Finals trophy in his career.

Previously, Alcaraz also reached the semi-finals of the ATP Finals 2023, but he lost to Novak Djokovic 0-2 (3/6, 2/6) and that was also the year the legendary Djokovic won the championship after beating Jannik Sinner 2-0 (6/3, 6/3) in the final.

If there are no surprises, the 2025 ATP Finals final will likely be between two arch-rivals: 2025 No. 1 Alcaraz and defending champion Sinner.

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