One more leap in history: Alcaraz, third solo Spaniard with the most ATP titles

Carlos Alcaraz It continues with its rise to the first line of world tennis on a historical level, if it has not yet been located there. He title in Vienna conquered this Sunday is another notch in an outstanding record that is finding the prize in this final part of the season after the wrist injury that has prevented Alcaraz from playing a good part of it.

The counter of a very promising year opened at the Australian Open and the ATP 500 in Doha, but a wrist injury in Barcelona kept him in dry dock until the US Open. After a few weeks to get into the rhythm, the titles in Tokyo and Viennaanother two 500, return Alcaraz to the path of triumph.

They do it at an important time of the season. After completing the Grand Slam in January, waiting for the opportunity for Olympic revenge in Los Angeles, there are few top-level trophies that resist Alcaraz. They will have to wait at least one more year for the Canadian and Shanghai Masters 1000, but in the coming days the Murcian will try to cross out three events that he still does not have in his history: the Paris Masters 1000 that starts this Monday and, especially, the ATP Finals and the Davis Cup that will close the season.

Until then, Alcaraz takes another small leap in history, at least that of Spanish tennis. The Vienna title is the twenty-eighth individual title he has won at the ATP level in his career.. This allows him to become the third solo Spaniard with the most trophies throughout history. Break the tie with the twenty-seven that David Ferrer won and he is already looking closer and closer to Manuel Orantes’ thirty-four, with Rafa Nadal the imperial leader with ninety-two. Ferrer is already left behind on this particular list and Orantes is increasingly less far from the Murcian.

A true example of the ever-increasing historical weight in Spanish tennis of a Carlos Alcaraz who cannot resist anything.