On-fire Carlos Alcaraz records milestone 250th win of career to reach final at Queen’s Club

On Thursday, he battled almost three-and-a-half hours for his 15th win in a row, the new longest winning streak of his career.

On Friday, he improved his career winning percentage on grass to 90%, the best career winning percentage on grass of ANY of the 29 current or former No. 1s in ATP rankings history, since 1973.

And today, Carlos Alcaraz kept the milestones coming.

He defeated countryman Roberto Bautista Agut in the semifinals of Queen’s Club, 6-4, 6-4, for the 250th win of his career.

The 22-year-old Spaniard is the first man born in 2003 or later—or even 2002 or later—to reach that incredible milestone, and just the second man born in the 2000s to do it, after Jannik Sinner.

MOST CAREER WINS, MEN BORN IN THE 2000s (tour-level):

• 282: Jannik Sinner [born in 2001]
• 250: Carlos Alcaraz [born in 2003]
• 238: Felix Auger-Aliassime [born in 2000]
• 161: Holger Rune [born in 2003]
• 157: Lorenzo Musetti [born in 2002]
• 136: Sebastian Korda [born in 2000]
• 114: Brandon Nakashima [born in 2001]
• 107: Jack Draper [born in 2001]
• 104: Sebastian Baez [born in 2000]
• 101: Jiri Lehecka [born in 2001]

Alcaraz had won both of his previous meetings against Bautista Agut in straight sets and this one was no different, as he broke once per set—in the third game of the first set and the fifth game of the second set—en route to a one-hour, 29-minute victory.

His match numbers were outstanding, as he hit almost twice as many winners as unforced errors, 37 to 19. The bulk of those winners came off of his serve, as he ripped 15 aces, as well as his forehand, which produced 17 winners in the match—including a huge inside-out winner from behind the baseline on match point.

With his latest victory, he not only extends his career-best winning streak to 17 matches in a row, but he's now won his last 15 matches in a row against fellow Spaniards, his last loss to a countryman coming to Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of Indian Wells in 2022.

He's now reached the final at five consecutive tournaments for the first time in his career, as well, having won Monte Carlo, finished runner-up at Barcelona (to Holger Rune), won Rome, won Roland Garros and now reaching another final at Queen's Club.

Standing between the world No. 2 and the title on Sunday will be No. 30-ranked Jiri Lehecka, who took out world No. 6 Jack Draper in a thriller in the first semifinal of the day, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.

Lehecka, who had to serve to stay in the match at 4-5 in the third set, is now into the biggest final of his career at the ATP 500 event.

It could be a danger match for the Spaniard, though—he won their first meeting on these same courts at Queen's Club in 2023, 6-2, 6-3, but the Czech won their only other meeting in the quarterfinals of Doha earlier this year, on hard courts, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.