It is no shock {that a} Spaniard leads the ATP Tour in clay-court match-win share for the 52 weeks main as much as Roland Garros. However relatively than King of Clay Rafael Nadal, it is the 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz who paces the sphere, based on statistics from the Infosys ATP Performance Zone.
Alcaraz holds a 23-3 clay document over the past 52 weeks, together with his third-round run in his Roland Garros debut final 12 months — good for an 88.5 per cent match-win fee. Alcaraz has gained 4 clay titles within the final 12 months, with three this season. He gained his first ATP Tour title in Umag final July, and adopted it up with triumphs in Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona and Madrid this season to rise to a career-high of No. 6 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings.
Remarkably, the person from Murcia has gained extra titles than matches misplaced on that clay-court run, which is highlighted by a 16-1 mark on the floor in 2022.
Novak Djokovic is second on the clay win-percentage record, compiling a 21-3 document for an 87.5 per cent win fee. Seven of these victories got here final 12 months in his Roland Garros title run, and 5 got here final week en path to the Internazionali BNL d’Italia trophy. Djokovic additionally gained the one-off Belgrade Open simply previous to Roland Garros one 12 months in the past, scoring 4 match victories to say the title in his residence metropolis.
Each Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud have extra clay wins than Alcaraz over the past 52 weeks, with the Norwegian incomes a tour-leading 28 wins and 5 titles over that interval. Tsitsipas stands at 25-5 with two titles (Lyon 2021, Monte Carlo 2022), his 83.3 per cent win fee third behind Djokovic. Ruud’s 5 clay titles have got here in Geneva, Bastad, Gstaad and Kitzbuhel final season and in Buenos Aires this February.
Diego Schwartzman is the one different participant to succeed in the 20-wins mark within the final 52 weeks. His 22-10 document offers him a 66.8 win fee, placing him tenth by that measure.
Along with multiple-title winners Alcaraz, Djokovic, Tsitsipas and Ruud, the next males have additionally lifted clay trophies prior to now 12 months (listed by clay-court match-win fee): Pablo Carreno Busta, Sebastian Baez, Andrey Rublev, Sebastian Korda, David Goffin, Pedro Martinez , Reilly Opelka, Holger Rune and Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
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