At the age of 19, Carlos Alcaraz broke into a tennis scene by winning 2022 US Open, becoming the youngest ATP World No.1 and the first teenage to hold the highest rating.
Since then, he has claimed four more big slams – Wimbledon twice (2023, 2024) and The French Open twice (2024, 2025). Yet hard courts remained his accident block – from his breakthrough as a teenager, we could not get another title on this surface. Now Alcaraz is returning to New York Hungry to get Grand Slam Glory in hard courts.
Can he defeat the ghost of inconsistency and rediscover his winning form on Flushing Meadows? Can Alcaraz convert its recent dynamics to Open Open Magic once more?
Alcaraz is still looking for a dominance of hard judgment
After winning the US Open in 2022 in 2022, his only semifinal appearance on the surface without reaching the final, came to 2023 US Open a year later. This run ended in disappointment when Daniil Medvedev defeated him in four sets and in the finals he denied a chance to face Novak Djokovic.
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The loss was significant because it emphasized how even the most premature talents could come across the biggest phases of the hard tennis. Last year, Alcaraz was amazed by Botic van de Zandschulf from the Netherlands in the second round.
At the Australian Open, Alcaraz still has to do the semifinals, with injuries and early exits from preventing deeper runs. This means that the 2023 US Open remains a lonely example across two harsh judges, but could not go further.
For players who conquered clay and grass with Grand Slam titles, it excels as an unusual gap in his growing biography.
This raises the question of the question: Why wasn’t Alcaraz be able to convert his versatile brilliance into a more consistent hard judgment success? And will the USA 2025 start or will finally bring a breakthrough?
Is the year 2025 Alcaraz’s year?
In 2025, Carlos Alcaraz fixed his status of one of the brightest tennis stars. He successfully prevented his title French Open in the historical five hundred thriller against Jannik Sinner-Narušil three championship points and mounted a comeback from two sets down in the longest finals of Roland Garros at all.
In Wimbledon he reached his third consecutive final, but was sin in four sets. Overall, Alcaraz captured six titles in 2025, including four “big titles”-the crown of ATP Masters 1000 (Monte-Carlo, Rome, Cincinnati) plus its triumph of the French Open.
This impressive form, marked by remarkable resistance and consistent dominance on the largest stages, will build it as the main candidate heading at Open USA. If he retains this dynamics, he will be prepared not only for more glory, but also for a crack on the ranking No. 1.
The best of Alcaraz will come
Alcaraz enjoyed the strike of happiness in cincinnati when the world no. 1 Jannik Sinner was forced to resign from the finals due to injury. While it was barely an ideal way to win the title, Alcaraz takes immense confidence in lifting the trophy – his first in Cincinnati.
Now the challenge will move to New York. Unlike his command runs in Wimbledon and Roland Garros, the US Open is still to see Alcaraz in his dominant best. But with a firm momentum on his side and his game culminating at the right moment, flushing Meadows 2025 could be his most convincing campaign.
Screening road Carlos Alcaraza to the finals at the US Open 2025
- 1. Bike: Reilly Opelka
- 2. Bike: Mattia Bellucci
- 3. Bike: Luciano Darderi (32)
- 4th round: Daniil Medvedev (13)/Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (18)
- Quarterfinals: Ben Shelton (6)
- SEMIFIFU: Novak Djokovic
- Final: Jannik Sinner
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Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
August 25, 2025
