Andrey SimonenkoCorrespondent SportAll materialsThe US Open tennis championship ended on Sunday with the victory of the Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, who topped the world rankings on Monday. In women's singles, the strongest on the courts of New York was the first racket of the world, Iga Swiatek from Poland. The Roman numeral III to the serial number of Carlos at the top of the world tennis classification arose as a tribute to Alcaraz's compatriots Carlos Moya and Juan Carlos Ferrero, who also visited the top of the ranking. But speaking frankly, these two tennis players were still globally, rather, «passing» the first rackets of the world. Moya ruled men's tennis for only two weeks, while Ferrero ruled for eight. With the advent of Alcaraz, according to many experts, a new era of his name began in this sport.Grand Slam TournamentsUS Open ATP11 September 2022 • start at 23:20FinishedCasper RuudNorway1 : 34:66:26:73:6Carlos AlcarazSpainAlcaraz is the youngest number one tennis ranking in history. He is now 19 years and four months old. The previous record holder for this indicator was Australian Lleyton Hewitt, who became the first racket of the world at 20 years and nine months. True, in the list of the youngest Grand Slam champions, the Spaniard closes the top ten. The achievements of Michael Chang, Boris Becker and Mats Wilander, who won their first majors at the age of 17, judging by the general situation in the current tennis, are not yet in jeopardy. his name began to appear more and more often in news feeds. But at the current US Open, the Spaniard showed an unbending will worthy of his eminent compatriot Rafael Nadal. On the way to victory, he won three five-set matches — against Croatian Marin Cilic, Italian Yannick Sinner and American Francis Tiafo. He also won a match point against Sinner. And in terms of the amount of time spent on the court, Alcaraz set an absolute record for the period of calculating this indicator — 23 hours 39 minutes.
