Last Sunday, Alcaraz won his second Masters title of the year by beating defending champion Zverev 6-3 6-1 in the men's singles final of the ATP1000 Madrid.
After winning the championship, in this week's latest ranking, Spain will soar from no. 9 in the world to no. 6, becoming the first post-00s male player to enter the world's top 8.
Top 10 post-00s players in the ATP rankings:
Born in 2000, Aliassim entered the 9th place in the world on 10 January 2022
Born in 2001, Sinar: Career entered 9th place in the world on November 1, 2021
Born in 2003, Alcaraz reached 6th in the world on 9 May 2022
It is worth mentioning that a year ago, on May 9, 2021, he was still ranked 120th in the world ranking.
Reviewing Alcaraz's world ranking upward trajectory can be said to be a rapid progress. He reached the world's top 100 for the first time in the singles rankings after winning the Challenge championship in Portugal on 24 May 2021. On September 13, 2021, after reaching the quarter-finals, the US Open entered the world's top 50 singles rankings, and after winning the Rio championship on February 21, 2022, the ranking went one step further, entering the top 20 for the first time, becoming the youngest active player to reach the top 20 of the ATP.
After winning the Miami tournament in March 2022, Alcaraz's singles ranking ranked in the world's top 10 for the first time. He then won his first singles title in the world's top 10 at Barcelona on 25 April.
Now, thanks to his victory at the Madrid Masters, Alcaraz moved up to second place with 3,460 points in the championship table to Turin this week, just 70 points away from Nadal at the top of the table.
Still, with his withdrawal from this week's Rome Masters, that gap could widen again this week. Nadal, who has already announced his participation in the Rome Masters, has won the tournament 10 times.
At the same time, there have been some changes in the singles world rankings of women's players.
Among them, the two best performers in the Madrid women's competition, Abdul-Jabbar and Pegura, have shown an upward trend in the WTA rankings.
The Madrid victory was Abdul-Jabbar's heaviest title to date, and her singles ranking rose from no. 10 in the world to a career-high no. 7. The Tunisian, who was ranked 7th in the world for two weeks last November, then fell back to 10th on November 15, 2021, and has been hovering around 9-11 since then, but now she's back to her career highs.
Madrid runner-up Pegura rose from 14th to 11th, surpassing her previous career-high 13th. (Source: Tennis House Author: Wu Li Fun)