Alcaraz reaches 200 wins quicker than all World No. 1s but one…
At age 21, Carlos Alcaraz keeps expanding his growing list of career achievements.
Already a four-time major champion who has ascended to World No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, the Spaniard reached another milestone Sunday that places his name among several all-time greats.
Alcaraz earned his 200th tour-level win in the China Open second round when he defeated Tallon Griekspoor 6-1, 6-2. Alcaraz has just 52 career losses, giving him a 79 per cent tour-level winning percentage.
“It was a great achievement, getting my 200th win on the ATP Tour. I always try and want to win every match that I play,” Alcaraz said. “Just two years and a half, more or less, being on the Tour, playing the Tour, having my 200th win is great for me. I just want to keep going, to keep getting more and more wins.”
Among the 29 players to reach World No. 1, Alcaraz is the second fastest to record his 200th match win, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index. Only John McEnroe had fewer losses at the time of recording his 200th match win (200-45).
Record At 200 Wins, All 29 Players To Reach World No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings
| Player | Record At 200 Wins | Weeks At No. 1 |
| John McEnroe | 200-45 | 170 |
| Carlos Alcaraz | 200-52 | 36 |
| Rafael Nadal | 200-55 | 209 |
| Mats Wilander | 200-56 | 20 |
| Jimmy Connors | 200-58 | 268 |
| Boris Becker | 200-60 | 12 |
| Ilie Nastase | 200-64 | 40 |
| Ivan Lendl | 200-67 | 270 |
| Andy Roddick | 200-67 | 13 |
| Lleyton Hewitt | 200-68 | 80 |
| Andy Murray | 200-71 | 41 |
| Bjorn Borg | 200-72 | 109 |
| Andre Agassi | 200-73 | 101 |
| Novak Djokovic | 200-74 | 428 |
| Jannik Sinner | 200-74 | 16 |
| Stefan Edberg | 200-74 | 72 |
| Pete Sampras | 200-82 | 286 |
| John Newcombe | 200-84 | 8 |
| Jim Courier | 200-86 | 58 |
| Juan Carlos Ferrero | 200-86 | 8 |
| Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 200-88 | 6 |
| Marcelo Rios | 200-88 | 6 |
| Daniil Medvedev | 200-96 | 16 |
| Roger Federer | 200-102 | 310 |
| Thomas Muster | 200-102 | 6 |
| Gustavo Kuerten | 200-107 | 43 |
| Marat Safin | 200-114 | 9 |
| Carlos Moya | 200-120 | 2 |
| Patrick Rafter | 200-130 | 1 |
Coincidentally, Alcaraz’s 200th win came against the same man — Griekspoor — he defeated to record his 100th win in 2023 at Indian Wells.
Just 18 months later, Alcaraz has hit the next century mark. He has not slowed his meteoric rise since taking the tennis world by storm as a teenager and becoming the youngest World No. 1 in PIF ATP Rankings in history in 2022 aged 19.
Sinner, the current World No. 1, who is also competing in Beijing, had 74 losses when he captured his 200th win, the same record Novak Djokovic and Stefan Edberg owned when they reached the milestone. The Serbian Djokovic has spent a record 428 weeks atop the PIF ATP Rankings.
Alcaraz has tallied a 45-9 season record with three titles: Indian Wells, Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Into the Beijing quarter-finals, he next will face seventh seed Karen Khachanov. Alcaraz could meet rival Sinner in the ATP 500 final.
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