Background and career
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (born 5 May 2003) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 66 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2022 and 2025. Alcaraz has won 27 ATP Tour–level singles titles, including seven majors and eight ATP Masters 1000 titles. He is the ninth and youngest man in history to complete the career Grand Slam in singles.
A teen phenomenon, Alcaraz won the Next Gen ATP Finals and was the 2020 ATP Newcomer of the Year. In 2022, Alcaraz won his first major title at the US Open. He became the youngest man in the Open Era to be ranked world No. 1, at 19 years, 130 days old, and finished the year as the youngest year-end No. 1 in ATP rankings history. Alcaraz won his second major title at Wimbledon in 2023, defeating seven-time champion Novak Djokovic in an epic final.
In 2024, Alcaraz won his first French Open and defended his title at Wimbledon, becoming the youngest man to win the "Channel Slam". In 2025, he defeated Jannik Sinner in a historic final to win the French Open, as well as the US Open, and finished as the year-end world No. 1 for a second time. In 2026, Alcaraz won his seventh major at the Australian Open, and became the youngest man to complete the career Grand Slam, at 22 years, 272 days old.
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia was born on 5 May 2003, in El Palmar, Murcia, Spain, to parents Carlos Alcaraz González and Virginia Garfia Escandón. Alcaraz has one older brother, Álvaro, and two younger brothers, Sergio and Jaime.
Alcaraz started playing tennis at the age of four at the Real Sociedad Club de Campo de Murcia, where his father was a tennis coach and club administrator. His mother worked as a sales assistant at IKEA. Alcaraz's father had played tennis but stopped pursuing a professional career as a teenager, as he could not afford it. In 2013, at age 10, Alcaraz signed his first contract with Babolat. After watching him compete at age 11, IMG agent Albert Molina recognized Carlos as a standout talent and sought to persuade his parents to work with him; his father ultimately agreed when Carlos was 12.
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Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth, in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
