The Murcian tennis player Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, who a few days ago was awarded the award for the best appearance of a player in the ATP during 2020, closes the season in 141st place in the world rankings at 17 years old and with the best percentage of victories in the ATP challenger circuit, with 83.3%, thanks to his 20 games won out of 24 played, all of them on clay.
This ranking of the Association of Professional Tennis Players refers to those tournaments that emerging players take advantage of to progress, and among them the best has been El Palmar, which In this course he has won the finals of the challengers tournaments in Trieste, in Italy; Barcelona and Alicante, in addition to falling into that of Cordenons, also in Italy.
Alcaraz, with that 83.3% of victories in challengers, toadvantage in that classification to Russian Aslan Karatsev, 27 years old and number 112 in the world, who credits 81.8% of wins -27 in 33 games-, and the American Jeffrey Wolf, 22 years old and 127 from the ATP, with 78.9% -15 of 19-. Next, the also American Denis Kudla, 28 years old and number 114, with a 78.3% of victories -18 in 23 games- and the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo, of 22 years and 139 of the classification, with 76.7% -23 of 30-.
Search in Dubai for a place at the Australian Open
The first objective for the Murcian in 2021 will be enter the final draw of a Grand Slam for the first time in his short career. He will be in Dubai, in the preview of the Australian Open, where he will aspire to qualify for Melbourne. You will be accompanied by other Spaniards such as Carlos Taberner, Mario Vilella and Tommy Robredo.
Among other prominent players of the previous one, names such as those of Lorenzo Musetti, Thiago Seyboth-Wild, Hugo Gaston, Ivo Karlovic, Lukas Rosol, Dustin Brown or Sergiy Stakhovsky.