Carlos Alcaraz He became the tenth Spanish tennis player to win Roland Garros. The man from Murcia won the final and expanded the list of Spanish athletes who raised the medal to 10. Musketeers Cup in it grand slam from Paris.
The feat was not easy because the opponent made things very complicated, but a great comeback and a historic fifth set ended with the Nurcian winning the title.
Above all is obviously Rafael Nadal, the man who holds the record for titles (14, the first in 2005 and the last in 2022) and who is a legend in Paris, where he has a statue at one of the entrance doors to the venue.
But the first Spanish successes in Paris were much earlier and date back to before the ‘Open era’, when Manolo Santana he won in 1961 and 1964.
Like him, another player was a two-time champion in Roland GarrosSergi Bruguera (1993, 1994), while Andrés Gimeno (1972), Carlos Moyà (1998), Albert Costa (2002) and Juan Carlos Ferrero (2003) were once crowned in the men’s team, just as they have done now Alcaraz.
Today Alcaraz picked up the baton from all of them and returns to Spain at the top of world tennis.
A triumph that goes down in the history of this sport and with which he inherits a trophy that belonged to nine Spanish legends. The last to achieve it was Nadal in 2022, surpassing Casper Ruud in the final, and now Alcaraz after defeating Zverev assumes the legacy of the man from Manacor and conquers his Roland Garros at only 21 years old, also becoming the youngest tennis player to win a Majors on hard court (US Open 2021)grass (Wimbledon 2022) and clay.
Alcaraz He took revenge for the defeat of his compatriot Rafael Nadal, who had been eliminated precisely in the first round by Zverev.
The Murcian reached the final after beating great rivals such as Felix Auger-Aliassime, Stefanos Tsisipas and Jannik Sinner and he did not fail against the German, who was in the best moment of his career.
Spanish champions
Before the “Open Era”:
- 1961: Manuel Santana
- 1964: Manuel Santana
In the “Open Era” (since 1968):
- 1972: Andrés Gimeno
- 1989: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
- 1993: Sergi Bruguera
- 1994: Sergi Bruguera, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
- 1998: Carlos Moyá, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
- 2002: Albert Costa
- 2003: Juan Carlos Ferrero
- 2005: Rafael Nadal
- 2006: Rafael Nadal
- 2007: Rafael Nadal
- 2008: Rafael Nadal
- 2010: Rafael Nadal
- 2011: Rafael Nadal
- 2012: Rafael Nadal
- 2013: Rafael Nadal
- 2014: Rafael Nadal
- 2016: Garbine Muguruza
- 2017: Rafael Nadal
- 2018: Rafael Nadal
- 2019: Rafael Nadal
- 2020: Rafael Nadal
- 2022: Rafael Nadal
- 2024: Carlos Alcaraz
Source: Ambito
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