25 amazing things Carlos Alcaraz achieved by winning the 2025 US Open

Carlos Alcaraz lit up Arthur Ashe Stadium match after match this year, becoming the first man in a decade to reach the final of the US Open without dropping a set—he then defeated Jannik Sinner in four sets, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, to capture his second US Open title, and sixth Grand Slam title.

Here are 25 amazing things Alcaraz achieved with his run in New York:

He’s the youngest man ever to win multiple Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces—hard, clay and grass. He already had two Wimbledon titles on grass (2023 and 2024) and two Roland Garros titles on clay (2024 and 2025), and he now has two US Open titles on hard courts (2022 and 2025).

He’s just the fourth man this century to win multiple US Open titles. He joins the usual suspects—Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

And at 22, he’s the youngest man this century to win multiple US Open titles, and the third-youngest man in the entire Open Era to do it, after John McEnroe and Pete Sampras. The Open Era began in 1968.

He’s the fourth man this century to win six Grand Slam titles. That’s after the Big 3, too. Since 2000, no other man has even won five majors.

He’s actually the second-youngest man in the Open Era to win six Grand Slam titles. Bjorn Borg was a younger 22 when he hit that number.

He finishes 2025 with a 24-2 record at Grand Slams, tying Nadal for most Grand Slam wins in a single season for a man aged 22 and under. Nadal was an identical 24-2 at the Grand Slams during the 2008 season.

He’s now 6-1 in Grand Slam finals. Alcaraz’s only career loss in a major final came at Wimbledon earlier this year, when Sinner ended his campaign for a third straight title there, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.

He’s now 14-3 in “big” finals, too. With finals at Masters 1000 events (8-1) and the Olympics (0-1) included, in Alcaraz you’ve got someone with an incredible win rate of 82% when there’s a “big” title on the line.

Speaking of playing well with big things on the line, he’s now 3-0 in Grand Slam finals where the No. 1 ranking is on the line. He beat Casper Ruud in the 2022 US Open final, Djokovic in the 2023 Wimbledon final and now Sinner in the 2025 US Open final—in all three championships, whoever won would leave as No. 1, and the Spaniard came through every single time.

And with that, Alcaraz is now back at No. 1 on the ATP rankings. He snapped Sinner’s 65-week reign at as ATP No. 1, and this week is the Spaniard’s 37th non-consecutive week at the top spot.

On this week's rankings, he didn’t just surpass 10,000 ranking points for the first time in his career, he surpassed 11,000. He now has 11,540 points on his ranking, shattering his previous best of 9,815 from 2023.

With his victory over Sinner in the final, he’s now 6-2 in his career against reigning world No. 1s. That includes 1-1 against Djokovic when he’s ranked No. 1 and 5-1 against Sinner when he’s holding the top spot.

He’s the second man to beat the reigning world No. 1 in two major finals in a season, since ATP rankings began in 1973. Nadal did it twice in 2008 against Federer, in the Roland Garros and Wimbledon finals.

He captured his seventh overall title of the year, BY FAR the most on either the men’s or women’s tour. Aryna Sabalenka has the next-most this year with four (Brisbane, Miami, Madrid and US Open). Three other players—Jessica Pegula, Alexander Bublik and Luciano Darderi—have three.

He’s actually won seven of the last nine tournaments he’s played. Since the start of April he’s only lost at two tournaments, and he still made the final at both—Holger Rune beat him in the final of Barcelona, 7-6 (6), 6-2, and, as mentioned above, Sinner beat him in the final of Wimbledon.

He has more titles than losses this year. He’s 61-6 with seven titles.

His 61 wins on the year are also the most on either the men’s or women’s tour. Sabalenka isn’t too far behind with 56. He’s way ahead of all other men, though—Alexander Zverev is next among the men with 45.

And he’s piled up the wins on every surface: 22 on clay (the most on the men’s tour this year), 11 on grass (second-most this year to Taylor Fritz’s 13) and 28 on hard (tied for most this year with Alex de Minaur).

He heads into the fall season on a 13-match winning streak. He’s also won 37 of his last 38 matches, a stretch that dates back to the start of May, and 46 of his last 48 matches, a stretch that dates back to the start of April.

He now has a better career winning percentage at Grand Slams than Federer. He went into the US Open at .856 (77-13) and is now .866 (84-13), jumping over Federer’s .860 (369-60). He still has a ways to go to catch Nadal’s .877 (314-44) and Djokovic’s .878 (397-55), however.

He now has 23 tour-level titles in his career, extending his lead for the most career titles for a man born in the 2000s. He led Sinner 21-20 after Wimbledon, but he’s now pulling ahead of the Italian at 23-20.

With his $5,000,000 winner’s cheque in New York, he surpassed $50,000,000 in career prize money. He’s the first player born in the 2000s, male or female, to hit that number—but Sinner isn’t too far behind…

He’s now 10-5 in his career against Sinner. The head-to-head was 4-3 in Sinner’s favor at the end of 2023, but since the start of 2024, Alcaraz has almost completely dominated their rivalry, going 7-1 against the Italian.

He has a healthy points lead over Sinner at No. 1 now, too. He’s ahead by 760 points right now, and what they’re defending between now and the end of the year couldn’t be more different—Alcaraz is defending a total of 1,000 ranking points, while Sinner is defending 2,830 ranking points.

And finally, the Cincinnati-to-US-Open-champion pipeline continues. In 2023, Djokovic won Cincy, then the US Open. In 2024, Sinner won Cincy, then the US Open. And in 2025, Alcaraz won Cincy, then the US Open…