MADRID, March 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz unveiled his world number one status on Monday after winning the Indian Wells Masters 1000 this morning, while Rafa Nadal left the “Top 10” for the first time in almost 18 years. .

The 36-year-old from the Balearic Islands had not moved from the top ten places in the men’s rankings since April 25, 2005, after winning the Conde de Godó trophy – when he climbed to seventh place – and in total he has accumulated 912 consecutive weeks in the ‘Top 10’.

His iliopsoas injury had already prevented him from defending his Australian Open crown earlier this year, and the 600 points loss in Indian Wells, where he was a finalist last year, ruled him out. ATP honors. Thus, he drops four places to thirteenth, where he remains with 2,725 points.

Meanwhile, Alcaraz returns to number one, which he had already achieved on September 12, 2022 by winning his first “Grand Slam”, the US Open. On January 30, Serbian Novak Djokovic ousted him from the ATP summit with his tenth Australian Open.

The 640 points added by the Murcian (7,420) bring him back to number one, where he leads the Balkan by 260 points (7,160), now number two. The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas remains on the “podium” of the classification, and the Norwegian Casper Ruud continues fourth.

Additionally, Russian Daniil Medvedev moved up one spot to fifth, ahead of Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who moved up four spots to sixth. The Russian Andrey Rublev is seventh, the Dane Holger Rune is eighth, the Pole Hubert Hurkacz moves up two places to ninth place and the American Taylor Fritz closes the “Top 10” by losing five places for not having defended his title in Indian Wells.

Among the rest of the Spaniards, Pablo Carreño of Asturias continues in 17th place, Alejandro Davidovich of Málaga goes up three to 25, Roberto Bautista of Castellón falls one to 28, Bernabé Zapata of Valencia improves one to 41, Albert Ramos of Barcelona falls one at 51, Jaume Munar of the Balearic Islands loses eight to 66 and Roberto Carballés of Tenerife loses five to 84.