{"id":264147,"date":"2025-11-15T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:03:12","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-lifts-trophy-as-year-end-no-1-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264147\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz lifts trophy as year-end No. 1 player"},"content":{"rendered":"

TURIN, Italy — Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was full of smiles as he lifted the trophy for the year-end No. 1 tennis player on Friday.<\/p>\n

After a scintillating tussle with Jannik Sinner<\/a>, Alcaraz secured the ranking<\/a> on Thursday by sealing a sweep of his three group-stage matches at the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Spaniard was presented with the trophy at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, shortly before Sinner’s match against Ben Shelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great pleasure for me to be No. 1 in the world again,” Alcaraz said. “It’s something that I’m working really hard for, with my team every day. It is a goal, to be honest, but I think it is a journey that you’re not going through alone.<\/p>\n

“It’s with your whole team, with your family, with your close people behind you, always supporting you, in the tough and in the good moments.”<\/p>\n

It is the second time in his career that Alcaraz has ended the year at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n

He became the youngest player to finish a year at No. 1 when he achieved the feat as a 19-year-old in 2022.<\/p>\n

“Having this trophy once again, the first one back in 2022, I have the same team. I’m still really proud of the team that I have right now,” Alcaraz added.<\/p>\n

“So for me, it’s a great achievement. It means the world to me, to be honest, and I’m just really proud and happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TURIN, Italy — Carlos Alcaraz was full of smiles as he lifted the trophy for the year-end No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-264147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}