Rafael Nadal is a residing and lively legend {of professional} tennis, nonetheless, like every skilled athlete his profession won’t final ceaselessly and is far nearer to its finish than the start, nonetheless, if there’s something that may fill with pleasure the most important winner of Grand Slams in historical past is that his legacy is in nice palms when he decides to retire, because the baton is now within the palms of the brand new #1 on this planet, the spectacular Carlos Alcaraz.
Carlos Alcaraz, the youngest world #1 of all time
Teenage sensation Alcaraz ‘hungry for extra’ after US Open win
After the triumph within the US Open ultimate towards the Norwegian participant Casper Ruud, Alcaraz has change into the youngest ATP #1 of all time, with 19 years and 4 months of age, no teenager had achieved that milestone, as he has overwhelmed the mark set by Lleyton Hewitt at 20 years and eight months in 2001.
In that sense, Alcaraz has taken a transparent benefit over Nadal, who took the throne of world tennis till he turned 22 years and a pair of months in 2008, which is to date the ninth quickest to realize it.
The way forward for tennis in superb palms
The sensation on this planet of males’s tennis is that this US Open has served to as soon as and for all welcome the generational relay, as the extreme dominance of Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic might give the palms not solely to Alcaraz, Ruud himself might at 23, together with Frances Tiafoe at 24 and Jannik Sinner at 21 have given spectacular duels that make us suppose that the way forward for tennis is assured.
In fact Carlos Alcaraz has a protracted method to go, to proceed the comparability with Nadal, he has now 21 Grand Slams much less to succeed in these heights, nonetheless, each highway has a primary step that has been given within the ultimate of the US Open 2021.