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Jannik Sinner's 2024 was always going to take some beating. The Italian won eight ATP Tour-level titles last year, including the US Open and Australian Open, and rose up from world number four to world number one.
Sinner won 73 matches in the process. Yet Carlos Alcaraz's 2025 campaign was equally as impressive, and perhaps, given the Spaniard finally went up against Sinner in a grand slam final, even better.
Alcaraz and Sinner had never met in a major showpiece match until they went up against each other at Roland Garros in June.
The duo's first grand slam showdown with silverware on the line went down as an instant classic: Alcaraz came from two sets down, saved three championship points and won the longest French Open final in history 4-6 6-7
(4-7) 6-4 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (10-2) after five hours and 29 minutes.
Alcaraz and Sinner went on to compete for each of the other two major titles, with the latter triumphing at Wimbledon and the former succeeding at Flushing Meadows.
Those grand slam triumphs were two of eight titles Alcaraz won across 2025. Here, we break down the 22-year-old's year in numbers.
6 - In the Open Era, only Bjorn Borg (7) has claimed more Men’s Singles titles at Grand Slams before turning 23 than Carlos Alcaraz (6), who has now equalled Rafael Nadal. Trajectory.#USOpen | @usopen @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic.twitter.com/xFgNyteGz4
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Grand slam glory
6 - Alcaraz has already collected six grand slam titles. In the Open Era, only Bjorn Borg (seven) has claimed more Men's Singles titles at Grand Slams before turning 23 than Alcaraz, who has equalled Rafael Nadal.
3 - Alcaraz became just the third man in the Open Era to win multiple titles at the US Open before turning 23, after John McEnroe and Pete Sampras.
1 - Since the US Open's switch to hard courts in 1978, Alcaraz is now the first player to win multiple major titles on all three surfaces before turning 23.
1035 - Alcaraz was the only man with 1000+ winners across the major events in 2025 (1035).
19 - List of players who began their career in the Open Era to go 19-0 from their first 19 opening Men's Singles matches in Grand Slam main draws:
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Bjorn Borg
Rafael Nadal
Carlos Alcaraz
Airbender.#USOpen | @usopen @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic.twitter.com/D0WYSOMGi9
19 - Alcaraz is one of just three players in the Open Era to go 19-0 from their opening 19 first-round singles matches at the majors, along with Borg and Nadal.
22 - The world number one (22 years 56 days) became the third-youngest player in the Open Era to reach consecutive singles finals at both Wimbledon and Roland-Garros, after Borg and Nadal.
9 - Alcaraz became just the ninth player in the Open Era to win a grand slam final after going two sets down, and the first to do it in 21 years.
33 - In winning his first-round tie at Wimbledon, Alcaraz (33 matches, 30-3) became the fastest player to achieve 30 ATP-level match wins on grass in the Open Era, surpassing Rod Laver and Tony Roche (34 each).
5 - After his win at Roland-Garros, Alcaraz became the first man in the Open Era to win each of his first five major finals.
4 - Alcaraz became the fourth player in the 21st century to win a grand slam title in four straight years, after Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Nadal.
King of the Tour
2 - Alcaraz is just the second active player to secure multiple year-end number one finishes, joining Novak Djokovic (eight).
71-9 - He won 71 matches on the ATP Tour in 2025, while he only lost nine matches across the season.
8 - Alcaraz's eight titles led the Tour, and also marked a career-best. He won three ATP 500 titles and three ATP Masters 1000 crowns to go with his two grand slam triumphs.
17 - He reeled off 17 straight match victories at ATP Masters 1000 events, from the start of the Monte-Carlo Masters through to the Cincinnati Open. Only Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and Sampras have had longer such winning streaks since the format's introduction in 1990.
11 - Alcaraz became the 11th man to claim the year-end number one ranking on multiple occasions.
22, 188 - Since 1988, Carlos Alcaraz (22y 188d) is now the youngest player to reach the final at each of the four Big Title levels - Grand Slam, ATP Masters 1000, Olympics and ATP Finals - surpassing Alexander Zverev (24y 95d). Phenom.#NittoATPFinals | @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic.twitter.com/zRCU8xMMqL
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280 - The number of match wins Alcaraz has now recorded across his career, while he has won 24 titles.
35 - Alcaraz's big weapon was his serve. In fact, he was even dubbed a "serve bot". However, another facet to his game is his first-serve return ability. He recorded a Tour-leading 35% first-serve return points won.
50 - Since the ATP Tour's inaugural season in 1990, Alcaraz became the third-youngest player to achieve four consecutive 50-win seasons, older than only Sampras and Nadal.
5 - Alcaraz became just the fifth player to win 3+ ATP Masters 1000 titles in a season before turning 23 after Sampras (1994), Marcelo Rios (1998), Federer (2004) and Nadal (2005, 2007-09).
70 - Aged 22 years and 188 days, Alcaraz became the youngest player to claim 70+ match wins in a season at ATP level since Djokovic (22y 164d) in 2009.
