CARLOS Alcaraz celebrated “being almost at the door” of becoming the top-ranked tennis player in the world again after defending his Madrid Open title yesterday.
The Spaniard earned his 10th career title with a hard-fought 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Jan-Lennard Struff and can reclaim the world no. 1 ranking from Novak Djokovic simply by playing a single match at the Rome Masters next week, before the French Open.