The jump in Alcaraz’s ranking after his feat at the US Open

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz returns a ball during his match against Peter Gojowczyk in the round of 16 of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.

Carlos Alcaraz’s victory over Peter Gojowczyk in the round of 16 of the US Open Not only does it allow the young Murcian tennis player to play the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career, but it will also mean a significant rise in the ATP rankings when it is released next week at the conclusion of the US Open.

According to the live-tennis.eu portal, which collects how the ATP ranking places would be live during the tournaments, Alcaraz will make a very important leap in the classification after his great performance in the US Open so far. And it is that the Murcian, who arrived in New York in position 55 of the ranking with 1,209 points after the publication of the ranking on August 30, currently it would occupy its best historical ranking in position 38 with 1,499 points, since it would lose the 60 achieved in the Cordenons Challenger last year but would add the 360 ​​for having reached the quarterfinals of the US Open. This will allow you to be in the Top-40 of the rankings at just 18 years of age.


However, Alcaraz’s rise in the ranking might not end there since, in the case of beating Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinals and going to the semifinals, Alcaraz would add a total of 1,859 points, which would allow him to climb to 29th place in the ranking based on other results and which would allow him to sneak into the Top-30 for the first time in his career. Whatever happens, Carlos Alcaraz will make an important leap next week in the ATP rankings at the end of a US Open in which the young Spanish tennis player still wants to continue to have pages to write.

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