Carlos Alcaraz accomplished some stellar feats as he earned a hard-fought win over Karen Khachanov to progress to the quarter-finals at the 2025 Italian Open.<\/p>\n
The world No 3 defeated 24th-ranked Khachanov 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 in the last 16 of the Masters 1000 event in Rome.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz<\/a> won five straight games after falling 1-3 down in the opening set, but he saw a 3-2, break advantage slip away in the second as Khachanov staged a turnaround of his own.<\/p>\n In the decider, Alcaraz\u2019s 4-1 lead disappeared as Khachanov battled back to 4-4, but the Spanish star delivered the decisive blow when the Russian serve to stay in the match at 5-6.<\/p>\n By reaching the last eight at the Italian Open for the first time, Alcaraz has now made the quarter-finals at all nine Masters 1000 tournaments.<\/p>\n At the age of 22 years and 13 days, Alcaraz is the second youngest player to feature in the last eight of every Masters event on the ATP calendar since the category was introduced in 1990.<\/p>\n Rafael Nadal<\/a> is the only man to achieve this at a younger age, having reached his ninth different Masters quarter-final when he was\u00a021 years and 154 days old.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Marcelo Rios also progressed to the last eight at every Masters tournament before turning 23.<\/p>\n Rafael Nadal \u2013 21 years and 154 days Alcaraz\u2019s win against Khachanov was his 75th Masters 1000 victory in his 98th match at this level of event.<\/p>\n Only Nadal (91) and Stefan Edberg (97) have reached the 75-win milestone in fewer Masters matches.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz makes \u2018physically struggling\u2019 confession after tough Italian Open battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Meet the man behind Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 who is Albert Molina?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alcaraz will face world No 5 Jack\u00a0Draper in the quarter-finals in Rome after the 23-year-old Brit downed Corentin Moutet 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the fourth round.<\/p>\n The four-time major winner leads the head-to-head 3-2, with Draper having won their last encounter in the Indian Wells semi-finals in March.<\/p>\n \u201cJack is playing great,\u201d Alcaraz said in his on-court interview. \u201cThe way he\u2019s playing is really high. I\u2019ve been watching his matches. His results lately are huge. I have to be ready for that. I think it\u2019ll be a great battle.<\/p>\n \u201cMy record in quarter-finals is pretty good. But every match is different. I have to show my best tennis if I want to beat him.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s see. Last time I played him, I lost. I have to take the good things about that match and the bad things and I have to learn about that. Let\u2019s see tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>The 6 active men to reach the QFs at the four Grand Slams and nine ATP Masters events as Alcaraz secures feat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz joins Rafael Nadal among youngest players to reach all nine Masters 1000 quarter-finals<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz accomplished some stellar feats as he earned a hard-fought win over Karen Khachanov to progress to the quarter-finals at the 2025 Italian Open. The world No 3 defeated 24th-ranked Khachanov 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 in the last 16 of the Masters 1000 event in Rome. Alcaraz won five straight games after falling 1-3 down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Youngest players to reach the quarter-finals at every Masters 100o tournament<\/h4>\n
\nCarlos Alcaraz \u2013 22 years and 13 days
\nNovak Djokovic \u2013 22 years and 177 days
\nRoger Federer \u2013 22 years and 225 days
\nMarcelo Rios \u2013 22 years and 318 days<\/p>\nCarlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n