{"id":292413,"date":"2025-11-15T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292413\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:26:11","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-lifts-trophy-as-year-end-no-1-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292413\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz lifts trophy as year-end No. 1 player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 14, 2025, 12:13 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>TURIN, Italy &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was full of smiles as he lifted the trophy for the year-end No. 1 tennis player on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After a scintillating tussle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3623\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/atp-finals-alcaraz-musetti-deminaur-5745829b58b7404cc371148474d5a5f4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz secured the ranking<\/a> on Thursday by sealing a sweep of his three group-stage matches at the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Spaniard was presented with the trophy at the Inalpi Arena in Turin, shortly before Sinner&#8217;s match against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great pleasure for me to be No. 1 in the world again,&#8221; Alcaraz said. &#8220;It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;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&#8217;re not going through alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time in his career that Alcaraz has ended the year at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8220;Having this trophy once again, the first one back in 2022, I have the same team. I&#8217;m still really proud of the team that I have right now,&#8221; Alcaraz added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So for me, it&#8217;s a great achievement. It means the world to me, to be honest, and I&#8217;m just really proud and happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 14, 2025, 12:13 PM ET TURIN, Italy &#8212; Carlos Alcaraz was full of smiles as he lifted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-292413","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\/292413","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=292413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}