Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz there is this market Reaching the top of the US Open beating Norway’s Casper Ruud After three hours and 20 minutes of battle with 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7-1) and 6-3. Murcian thus became the youngest tennis player to reach the position at the age of 19.

With this win, Alcaraz was declared number 1 in the world rankings. with 6,740 points, 890 points ahead of tennis player Ruud, who was also fighting for this title. The difference with former Spanish number 1 tennis player Rafa Nadal, 930 points.

Murcian’s aim, stay at the top of the world rankings for as long as possiblehowever, to achieve this, the tennis player must achieve a set of short-term goals. These are based on the workings of ATP sequencing, the mechanics of which are as follows.

How does ATP sequencing work?

ATP ranking works on the following basis: score achieved by tennis players when competing in different tournaments. The higher scoring competitions are the four major Grand Slams: most Australian Open, most Roland Garros, tournament Wimbledon Y most US Open, the last match in which the Spaniards were declared champions. Such a competition awards 2000 to the winner, 1200 to the finalist, 720 to the semi-finalists, 360 to the quarterfinalists, 180 in the fourth round, 90 in the third round, 45 in the second round and 10 in the first round. .

then we have Masters 10001,000 points to the winner, 600 to the finalists, 360 to the semi-finalists, 180 points in the quarterfinals, 90 points in the 16th round, 45 in the 32nd round and 10 in the 64th round. already found ATP World Tour 500Tournaments with 12 tournaments with finalists receiving 500 points, finalists 300 and semi-finalists 180 points. ATP250this gives less points.

These points It has 52 weeksthat is, each time a tennis player starts a tournament, the points previously achieved in the competition will be deleted and new points obtained according to the goals achieved in the current version will be added.

Conditions to stay number 1

To rank high in the ATP ranking, Carlos Alcaraz should win the next US OpenAs well as continuing to add victories to his record and staying behind him in the later competitions with the rest of his rivals, notably Ruud and Nadal.