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Alcaraz named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year

Spaniard is fourth ATP Tour participant to win prize after Federer, Nadal and Djokovic

April 20, 2026

Carlos Alcaraz He has been named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year at the annual Laureus World Sports Awards, which befell on Monday night in Madrid.

The 22-year-old Spaniard loved a standout 2025 season on the ATP Tour. He received a Tour-leading eighth titles, together with majors at Roland Garros and the US Openand completed as ATP Year-End No. 1 introduced by PIF after a back-and-forth battle along with his nice rival, Jannik Sinner.

“Three years in the past, I obtained the Laureus Breakthrough Award in Paris and met one of my heroes, Leo Messi, who received the Laureus Sportsman Award. At the time, I dreamt that possibly in the future I’d be a part of the nice Leo Messi on the Sportsman checklist, and right this moment, I’ve. Messi, Federer, Djokovic, Usain Bolt, and of course the nice Rafa Nadal. I’m following in the footsteps of giants. That makes this second so particular.

“I truly understand why these Awards mean so much to the best athletes in the world. That includes all my fellow Laureus nominees — the greatest sportsmen in the world — but I especially would like to thank you Jannik Sinner. If we hadn’t been throughout the web from one another, pushing the different one so laborious, I do not suppose both of us would have discovered the ranges we did.

The different nominees for World Sportsman of the Year had been the 24-year-old Italian Sinner, soccer star Ousmane Dembele, pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis, motorcyclist Marc Marquez and bicycle owner Tadej Pogacar.

Alcaraz joins the ‘Big Three’ of Roger Federer (2005-08, 2018), Rafael Nadal (2011, 2021) and Novak Djokovic (2012, 2015-16, 2019, 2024) in profitable the award. It just isn’t the first time the Spaniard has been acknowledged at the ceremony organized by Laureus, a worldwide group that celebrates sporting excellence and makes use of the energy of sport to rework the lives of youngsters and younger folks.

In 2023, Alcaraz received the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year Award after his historic 2022 season during which he grew to become the youngest No. 1 in PIF ATP Rankings historical past at simply 19.

Alcaraz completed 2025 with a 71-9 file, in line with the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index. As nicely as his Roland Garros and US Open triumphs, he additionally received ATP Masters 1000 occasions in Monte-Carlo, Rome and Cincinnati, and ATP 500 crowns in Rotterdam, London and Tokyo. In November, he reached the championship match at the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time earlier than falling to Sinner.

Alcaraz and Sinner weren’t the solely ATP Tour stars nominated for an award on Monday in Madrid. #NextGenATP Brazilian Joao Fonsecawhose speedy rise to a career-high World No. 24 was one of the tales of the 2025 season, was nominated for Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year.