{"id":290181,"date":"2025-11-14T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290181\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:20:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-seals-year-ending-no-1-ranking-with-another-win-at-the-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290181\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz seals year-ending No. 1 ranking with another win at the ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-08f42f\" class=\"body-graf\">Carlos Alcaraz secured the year-ending No. 1 ranking in men\u2019s tennis on Thursday by beating Lorenzo Musetti to sweep his group at the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f5fe06\" class=\"body-graf\">Alcaraz needed to win one more match to beat Jannik Sinner to the No. 1 spot and the Spaniard duly did so as he eased to a 6-4, 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-7d08dd\" class=\"body-graf\">It is the second time in his career that Alcaraz has ended the year at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f579b2\" class=\"body-graf\">The Spaniard 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<p id=\"anchor-3b3fe1\" class=\"body-graf\">Alcaraz didn\u2019t give him that chance as he swept aside Musetti in less than 90 minutes, sealing the result on his third match point.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2daedd\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">That was his third win in the Jimmy Connors group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz secured the year-ending No. 1 ranking in men\u2019s tennis on Thursday by beating Lorenzo Musetti to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-290181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}