Carlos Alcaraz has bolstered his possibilities of ending the year as ATP Year-End No. 1 for a second time after winning the US Open crown at Flushing Meadows and regaining the world number-one ranking.
With his victory in New York, the Spaniard zoomed to the top of the ATP Live Race To Turin—the players' year-to-date point standing that dictates the year-end No. 1—posting a dominant 2,590-point lead on his nearest rival, Jannik Sinner. None of the other players are within 6,000 points of Alcaraz, ATP statistics show.
For Sinner, the US Open final was a golden opportunity to chip away at that advantage and frame a closer contest over the last weeks of the season. A win would have produced a 1,400-point shift in the Italian's favor. Now, Alcaraz's victory has set him well on top with big events to come, including the Masters 1000 events in Shanghai and Paris and the ATP Finals. Alcaraz had earlier finished the year No. 1 in 2022.
If he does so again, the 21-year-old would join only the 11th player ever to achieve the year-end number one ranking twice and become the second Spanish player to do it, following Rafael Nadal, who did it five times.
Alcaraz and Sinner have already qualified for the 2025 ATP Finals. Fifth-placed Ben Shelton and eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti are battling for their maiden entries into the season finisher. Musetti has a marginal 80-point lead over ninth-placed Jack Draper, who on Monday revealed that he will be out for the rest of the season due to an arm injury.
The below extends Draper's chances of making his first appearance in the Finals this year. 23-year-old Briton will rather shift focus to rehabilitation following a season with the highlight of his first-ever Masters 1000 crown at Indian Wells.
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