The Spanish sensation clinched the ATP Year-End world number one honors by defeating Lorenzo Musetti in his ATP Finals group stage match and continued his undefeated run in the season-ending competition.
Not only did Alcaraz move to the semifinals, but he also upstaged Jannik Sinner to secure the year-end top rank honours for the second time in his career.
“It means the world to me, to be honest. The year-end No. 1 is always a goal,” Alcaraz said as quoted by ATP’s official website.
“At the beginning of the year, I saw the number one really, really far away [with] Jannik winning almost every tournament he plays. But from the middle of the season ’til now, I gave myself the goal for the No. 1 because I thought it was there. I had the chance to play great tennis in a lot of tournaments in a row, which put me in a position to be close to Jannik for the number one spot.”
“Then in the last three, four tournaments of the year, I was fighting toe to toe with Jannik for this spot, and then finally I got it. For me, it means everything,” he concluded.
It has been an incredible 2025 for Alcaraz, who, back in 2022, became the youngest since 1973 to end the year as world number one. He is just the second active player with multiple year-end top finishes, joining Serbian icon and rival Novak Djokovic (8).
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