Feliz cumpleaños, Carlitos! 23 stats for Carlos Alcaraz’s 23rd birthday

Carlos Alcaraz turns 23 today, which might be hard to believe given he’s already put together a resume most other players would dream of for their entire career.

Here are 23 stats to celebrate his 23rd birthday:

1 is for No. 1, which he reached as a 19-year-old in 2022, becoming the first—and still only—teenager to reach the top spot in ATP rankings history, which dates back to 1973.

2 is for his two year-end No. 1 finishes, in 2022 and 2025. At age 22 last year, he was the second-youngest man ever to finish two years at No. 1, older than only Lleyton Hewitt.

3 is for the three match points he saved in the Roland Garros final last year, becoming the first man in the Open Era to save three match points to win a Grand Slam final. Serving at 3-5, 0-40 in the fourth set, he battled back to defeat Jannik Sinner, 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2).

4 is for already having the fourth-most career prize money in ATP history, with $64,997,598. He trails only Novak Djokovic ($193 million), Rafael Nadal ($134 million) and Roger Federer ($130 million) on that list.

5 is for winning his first five Grand Slam finals in a row, just the second man to do that in the Open Era after Federer, who won his first seven major finals in a row.

6 is for his incredible 6-2 career record against reigning world No. 1s. Broken down, that’s 1-1 against Djokovic when he was No. 1 and 5-1 against Sinner when he’s No. 1.

7 is for his seven Grand Slam titles, one Australian Open (2026), two Roland Garroses (2024 and 2025), two Wimbledons (2023 and 2024) and two US Opens (2022 and 2025). He’s the youngest man ever to win seven majors.

8 is for his eight Masters 1000 titles. He’s actually the second-youngest man ever to win eight Masters 1000 titles, after Nadal, who already had eight when he was just 20!

9 is for his nine ATP 500 titles. He’s currently on a 16-match winning streak at ATP 500 events, sweeping titles at Queen’s Club and Tokyo last year and Doha this year.

10 is for ending an all-time record 10-year winning streak, when he battled back to defeat Djokovic in the 2023 Wimbledon final, 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Djokovic had won a ridiculous 45 matches in a row on Centre Court, the most famous tennis court in the world, going into that final.

11 is for his 11 hard-court titles and his 11 clay-court titles, demonstrating his multi-surface threat level. He also has four grass-court titles (including his two Wimbledons!)

12 is for winning his last 12 five-setters in a row. He’s 15-1 in his career in five-setters, the only loss coming to Matteo Berrettini in the third round of the 2022 Australian Open.

13 is for surpassing 13,000 ranking points, which he did for the first time in his career after the Australian Open this year. That title run bumped him up to a career-high 13,650.

14 is for already winning titles in 14 different countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, UK and USA.

15 is for his 15 career “big” titles, with his seven majors and eight Masters 1000s. He’s been a finalist at the other two levels of “big” event, finishing runner-up at the 2024 Olympics (to Djokovic) and the 2025 ATP Finals (to Sinner).

16 is for making a winning ATP tour debut at just 16 years old, when—as a No. 406-ranked wild card into the main draw—he defeated then-Top 50 player Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the first round of Rio de Janeiro in 2020 in a three-hour-and-37-minute marathon, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-6 (2).

17 is for 17 wins over Top 10 players last year, the most he’s had in a year so far in his career. He went 17-4 against the elite in 2025, the only losses coming to Djokovic in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, Sinner in the finals of Wimbledon and the ATP Finals, and Taylor Fritz at Laver Cup.

18 is for breaking into the Top 10 at just 18 years old, on April 25th, 2022, the youngest man to crack the elite since Nadal did it as a younger 18 on April 25th, 2005… which was coincidentally exactly 17 years before that to the day!

19 is for winning his first Grand Slam title at just 19 years old, at the 2022 US Open, the youngest man to win a Grand Slam title since… again, Nadal, who was a younger 19 when he won his first Grand Slam title at 2005 Roland Garros.

20 is for his perfect 20-0 record in first-round matches at Grand Slams. He’s just the second man this century to win their first 20 or more first-round matches in a row at majors, after AGAIN, Nadal, who won his first 34 in a row.

21 is for earning more than $21 million in prize money in 2025 alone. He banked $21,354,778 to be exact, which was the second-highest single-season prize money total in ATP history, after Djokovic’s $21,646,145 haul from 2015.

22 is for completing the Career Grand Slam at just 22 years old, when he won the final missing piece of his puzzle—the Australian Open—earlier this year. He’s the youngest man to complete the Career Grand Slam in tennis history.

And finally, 23 isn’t just for everything he’s already done before turning 23, it’s also for all the history he can keep making as a 23-year-old over the next year, including possibly becoming the youngest man ever to complete a Double Career Grand Slam at next year’s Australian Open. It’s also the total number of career wins he’s had over his three closest rivals on the rankings, across all levels—he’s 11-7 against Sinner (10-7 at tour-level, 1-0 at Challengers), 5-5 against Djokovic and 7-6 against Alexander Zverev.