Alcaraz mirrors Nadal with Barcelona Open title and top 10 debut
Alcaraz picked up his third title of the season and fourth overall in Barcelona on Sunday, needing to play a three hour and 39-minute semi-final against Alex De Minaur, in which he saved two match points, before dispatching compatriot Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3 6-2 in 65 minutes to lift his second ATP 500 crowd.
The 18-year-old had already guaranteed a top 10 debut when he defeated recent Monte Carlo champion Stefanos Tsitsipas in a rollercoaster three-set quarter-final and, having been compared to Nadal in the past, managed to exactly mirror the 21-time Major champion’s same achievements from when he was 18.
On April 24 2005, a then-18-year-old Nadal defeated a fellow Spaniard – Alcaraz’s coach and former world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero – to win the Barcelona Open. The following day, on April 25 2005, he cracked the top 10 for the first time. 18-year-old Alcaraz defeated a fellow Spaniard to win Barcelona on April 24 and cracked the top 10 for the first time on April 25, a crazy coincidence that has unsurprisingly earned the new world No 9 even more comparisons to Nadal.
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