Roland Garros 2024: Carlos Alcaraz is the total tennis player: the youngest to reach the finals of ‘Grand Slam’ on three different surfaces

Carlos Alcaraz is an all-round tennis playerthat is why he is destined to rule world tennis with an iron fist, with the permission of other aspirants to do so such as Jannik Sinner, his victim in the semifinal in Paris.

Alcaraz, at 21 years and 33 daysthis Friday became the youngest tennis player to reach the finals of ‘Grand Slam’ on three different surfaces: hard, dirt and grass. In 2022 he won the US Open on cement, A year later he was crowned on the grass at Wimbledon and this Sunday he wants to repeat his feat on the clay at Roland Garros..

Until today it was Andre Agassi who held that mark of precocity. The American achieved this by qualifying for the Wimbledon final in 1992. Nadal completed the circle on the hard surface of the Australian Open in 2009.

Similarly, Carlitos is the second youngest tennis player on the last Sunday of the French Open since 2000. He is only surpassed by his idolized Rafael Nadal. The Manacor was below Alcaraz’s age when he entered the fight for the title in the finals of 2005, 2006 and 2007.

It is worth remembering that on September 12, 2022, the Murcian broke Lleyton Hewitt’s record and became He became the youngest to lead the ATP lists at 19 years, four months and six days.