Carlos Alcaraz continued his perfect start to the year at Indian Wells on Thursday night, beating Cam Norrie in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 event, 6-3, 6-4, to improve to 16-0 in 2026.
He’s now into the semifinals at Indian Wells for the fifth year in a row, just the third man in tournament history to achieve that incredible feat, after Rafael Nadal (2006-2013) and Novak Djokovic (2011-2016).
But there’s something even more incredible he did with his latest win—he now has a better career winning percentage than Roger Federer.
Alcaraz went into his quarterfinal match with a .8194 career winning percentage in tour-level matches (295-65) and improves to .8199 with the win (296-65), surpassing Federer’s .8198 (1,251-275).
With a minimum of 200 matches played, Alcaraz now has the fourth-best career winning percentage for a man in the Open Era.
BEST MEN’S CAREER WINNING PERCENTAGES IN OPEN ERA (tour-level, minimum 200 matches played):