The Murcian Carlos Alcaraz seeks this Sunday to be the eighth Spaniard to lift the Musketeers Cup in the Parisian Grand Slam at Roland Garros in his first final, and if he won it he would be the sixty-second player in the world to register his name as champion.
The young player from El Palmar, 21 years old and No. 3 in the world, will face the German Alexander Zverev, 27 and fourth in the world ranking.
The Balearic Rafa Nadal is by far the tennis player who has been champion the most times on the Philippe Chatrier court -2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022- and They are followed by the Frenchman Max Décugis, with eight titles won between 1903 and 1923, and the Swede Björn Borg, who won six between 1974 and 1981.
Before Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Murcia’s coach, triumphed in 2003, Albert Costa in 2002, Carlos Moyá in 1998, Sergi Bruguera in 1993 and 1994, Andrés Gimeno in 1972 and Manolo Santana in 1961 and 1964.
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