The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz does not stop breaking records for precociousness. His irruption into professional tennis is being huge. The surface on which he plays doesn’t matter anymore. Three weeks ago, the Murcian thought that he did not master the grass enough, but in that time he has won Wimbledon against Novak Djokovic, in addition to the previous tournament at Queen’s. He has only needed 17 games on the grass to be crowned on the illustrious court of the All England Club. Alcaraz is only 20 years old and that is why some wonder if he is the youngest Wimbledon winner.
Carlitos adds his second Grand Slam to his fledgling career. His first major, the US Open, was achieved less than a year ago, a victory that earned him the youngest number 1 in history. Now, his triumph at Wimbledon keeps him on the throne of the ATP ranking with an 880-point advantage over Djokovic and more than 2,000 over the rest of the pursuers.
Although he has had to regain first place since the triumph in the United States, he has already accumulated 29 weeks at the top of the ranking, longer than other tennis figures who were number 1 in their day, in the case of Mats Wilander (20 weeks). , Andy Roddick (13) or Boris Becker.
Among so many achievements, has Alcaraz managed to be the youngest winner at Wimbledon? The answer is no, although he is among the most precocious in the modern history of the tournament. Nobody in almost four decades has managed to break the record that Boris Becker broke when, in 1985, he lifted the London trophy at the age of 17 years, 7 months and 14 days.
Becker won Wimbledon again the following year (1986) and thus also appears in second place in the ranking of youngest winners, at 18 years, 7 months and 13 days. “I remember winning Wimbledon at 17 and suddenly people looked at me differently: they thought I came from the planet Mars. They thought I had done something I shouldn’t have done, something that shouldn’t have been possible. But I did it. And then I did it at 18, just to make the point,” Becker recalls.
Before the German tennis player, the youngest men’s champion was Wilfred Baddeley, who was 19 when he won Wimbledon in 1881. Also, in the women’s category, Martina Hingis was proclaimed champion in 1997 when she was only 16 years old.
Returning to the modern era of men’s tennis, the second youngest tennis player to win Wimbledon was Bjorn Borg, who at 20 years and 26 days took the 1976 title. Carlos Alcaraz is the next on the list to be proclaimed champion at 20 years old, 2 months and 11 days, making him the third youngest player to win the London Grand Slam. If we name the golden trident of tennis, Roger Federer won his first Wimbledon at the age of 21; Rafa Nadal, with 22 years and Djokovic, with 24.
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