Jódar, already historic in Spanish ATP tennis: Orantes opened, Nadal, Alcaraz, Moyà and Ferrero led

Rafa Jodar He is making history already in his first professional season. Nobody in his debut campaign had been able to get into the top-10 of the world ranking, a statistic that the 20-year-old from Madrid broke and who on Monday, November 2, will be the new number ten in the ATP rankings.

He has needed only 287 days since his debut on the ATP Tour professionals, at the Australian Open. A record that shattered the Brazilian’s record Gustavo ‘Guga’ Kuerten, which required 490.

The fastest, evidently, of the Spanish ‘top ten’ list, which opened Manolo Orantes in 1973, when the world order began to be configured through a computer system, and it closes for the moment Rafa Jodar as twenty-first tennis player.

He has been the fastest in time, not in age, since Carlos Alcaraz He is the youngest world number one in history. He reigned at the age of 19, the age at which Rafa Nadal It was also already in the top-10. The Spaniard then took first place, as they had done before Carlos Moyathe first, and Juan Carlos Ferrero.

They reached number 2 Manolo Orantes and Àlex Corretja. In third place they military Sergi Bruguera and David Ferrer. There is no Spanish ATP number 4, if he reached fifth Tommy Robredo.

On the sixth step they were Pepe Higueras and Albert Costas In seventh, as best career ranking, Joan Aguilera, Emilio Sánchez Vicario, Alberto Berasategui and Fernando Verdasco.

There are not yet eight in the world, they passed through ninth place Nico Almagro and Roberto Bautista. They closed the top-10, as they will Rafa Jódar, Carlos Costa, Fèlix Mantilla and Pablo Carreño.