Carlos Alcaraz named ATP Player of the Year and ATP Most Improved Player of the Year

Carlos Alcaraz (YouTube)

The ATP Awards were announced this week with Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz being named the ATP Player of the Year and the ATP Most Improved Player of the Year. Alcaraz is the second Spaniard to be named the ATP Player of the Year. He follows Rafael Nadal, who received the honour five times. Nadal won in 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017, and 2019. Alcaraz won the ATP Most Improved Player of the Year by moving from 32nd in the world to number one.

This past year, Alcaraz won five ATP tournaments. He won his first grand slam singles title of his career in September by winning the 2022 United States Open. In the final, he defeated Norway’s Casper Ruud, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3. Alcaraz also won then Rio Open by beating Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman in the final, 6-4, 6-2, the Miami Open by beating Ruud in the final 7-5, 6-4, the Barcelona Open by beating Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta in an all-Spanish final, 6-3, 6-2, and the Madrid Open by beating Germany’s Alexander Zverev in the final, 6-3, 6-1.

In other ATP awards, Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Neal Skupski of Great Britain won the ATP Doubles Team of the Year, Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain, (who coached Alcaraz), won the ATP Coach of the Year, Denmark’s Holger Rune was the Newcomer of the Year, and Croatia’s Borna Coric, (who moved from 278th to 26th in the world), won the ATP Comeback Player of the Year. Coric won the 2022 Cincinnati Masters by beating Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in the final, 7-6, 6-2. This was Coric’s second ATP Masters 1000 Final of his career, as he also reached the 2018 Shanghai Masters Final, where he lost to Novak Djokovic of Serbia, 6-3, 6-4.

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