It wasn’t easy but Carlos Alcaraz continued his mastery over Karen Khachanov on Tuesday, battling past the former Top 10 player in the fourth round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
He’s now 5-0 lifetime against Khachanov.
And with that victory, the 22-year-old Spaniard isn’t just through to the quarterfinals in Rome for the first time, he’s now reached the quarterfinals or better at all nine Masters 1000 events in his career.
Rome was the only one missing in his collection.
ALCARAZ’S BEST RESULT AT EACH MASTERS 1000 EVENT:
- Won Indian Wells [2023, 2024]
- Won Miami [2022]
- Won Monte Carlo [2025]
- Won Madrid [2022, 2023]
- QFs of Rome [2025]
- QFs of Canada [2023]
- F of Cincinnati [2023]
- QFs of Shanghai [2024]
- QFs of Paris [2022]
And there’s more.
Alcaraz, who was born in 2003, is actually the first man born in the 2000s to complete a career set of Masters 1000 quarterfinals.
A few others born in the 2000s are close: Jannik Sinner is only missing Paris, so he could complete his collection later this year; and Felix Auger-Aliassime is only missing Monte Carlo and Shanghai.
Alcaraz is only the eighth man born in 1990 or later to do it.