Carlos Alcaraz Trivia
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50 free Carlos Alcaraz trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Carlos Alcaraz signed with Babolat at ten, beat a 16-match-streaking Jannik Sinner at fifteen in his first Challenger, and became the youngest world No. 1 in ATP history at nineteen by winning the 2022 US Open. Four years later he held all four majors at once in his trophy cabinet, the youngest man ever to complete the career Grand Slam. This quiz tracks the rise: the Murcia club where his father coached, the move to Juan Carlos Ferrero's academy, the 2:50 AM finish in New York, the back-to-back Nadal and Djokovic wins in Madrid, the 4 h 42 min Wimbledon final, the Channel Slam, Olympic silver, the three-championship-point comeback in Paris, the racket-smash apology, the Raducanu mixed-doubles frenzy, the 15–1 five-set record and the Chess.com bot. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a sports quiz night.
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Q 01Carlos Alcaraz was born in El Palmar, a district of which Spanish city?
Murcia
Murcia. He started at four at the local tennis club where his father was a director and his grandfather and great-uncle had been members, so the sport ran in the family.
Q 02Alcaraz's father coached at the local tennis club, while his mother Virginia was a sales assistant for which retailer?
IKEA
IKEA. Virginia Garfia was a sales assistant there, and with money tight the family relied on sponsors to pay for Carlos's coaching and his junior trips abroad.
Q 03Which racket company signed Alcaraz to his first contract at age 10?
Babolat
Babolat. The French firm has kept him ever since, and in 2023 he signed a long extension that runs to 2030.
Q 04Which brother of Alcaraz travels the tour with him as his hitting partner?
Álvaro
Álvaro. The eldest of the four brothers, he has long been his confidant on tour, and after the coaching split of late 2025 Alcaraz said he would take on more prominence in the team.
Q 05Which former world No. 1 became Alcaraz's coach when he moved to Villena in 2018?
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero. The 2003 French Open champion took him on at 15, and their seven-year partnership ended in a shock split in December 2025.
Q 06Who became Alcaraz's head coach for 2026 after his split from his longtime coach?
Samuel López
Samuel López. He had joined as second coach in December 2024, so when the shock split came a year later he was already inside the team to take over.
Q 07Where did Alcaraz win his first grass-court title in 2023, three weeks before his first Wimbledon crown?
Queen's Club
Queen's Club. He beat Alex de Minaur in the London final to retake the No. 1 ranking, then declared himself a favourite for the title at the All England Club.
Q 08At which 2020 event did a 16-year-old Alcaraz win his first ATP main-draw match?
Rio Open
Rio Open. Given a wildcard, he outlasted world No. 41 Albert Ramos Viñolas over three hours and 37 minutes, the first tour-level win by any player born in 2003.
Q 09Alcaraz first met Nadal in 2021, losing on his 18th birthday at which tournament?
Madrid
Madrid. Two days earlier the wildcard had become the event's youngest match winner, taking a record his idol had set in 2004; on the birthday itself he won just three games.
Q 10Where did Alcaraz win his first ATP title in July 2021?
Umag
Umag. In the Croatian resort's final he routed Richard Gasquet, a former top-ten player 17 years his senior, to become the youngest ATP champion since 2008.
Q 11Which world No. 3 did Alcaraz beat in a fifth-set tiebreak at the 2021 US Open?
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Stefanos Tsitsipas. Ranked 55th, the 18-year-old lost the fourth set 6–0 yet came back to win the deciding tiebreak, then called it a dream come true.
Q 12Which season-ending title did an 18-year-old Alcaraz win in Milan in 2021?
Next Gen ATP Finals
Next Gen ATP Finals. When the two higher-ranked qualifiers pulled out of the under-21 event he became top seed, and as the youngest player in the draw he beat Sebastian Korda in the final.
Q 13Alcaraz's first Masters 1000 title came in 2022 at which event, as the first Spaniard to win it?
Miami Open
Q 21Before Alcaraz in the 2023 final, who was the last man to beat Djokovic on Wimbledon's Centre Court?
Andy Murray
Andy Murray. He won the 2013 final, and the Serb then went a full decade unbeaten on Centre Court until Alcaraz recovered from losing the first set 6–1 to win in five.
Q 22Whom did Alcaraz beat in five sets in the 2024 French Open final for his first Roland Garros title?
Alexander Zverev
Alexander Zverev. The German led by two sets to one, then won only three more games as Alcaraz, at 21, became the youngest man to win majors on all three surfaces.
Q 23Winning the French Open and Wimbledon in 2024 made Alcaraz the youngest man to achieve what?
Channel Slam
Miami Open. Spanish men had reached the final there eight times and lost every one; at 18 years and 333 days he was also the event's youngest men's champion.
Q 14In 2022, Alcaraz became the only man to beat which two players back-to-back on clay?
Nadal and Djokovic
Nadal and Djokovic. He beat them on consecutive days, the first player ever to do so on clay, then swept the final in little over an hour.
Q 15Whom did Alcaraz beat in the 2022 US Open final for his first major?
Casper Ruud
Casper Ruud. Either finalist would have become world No. 1 by winning, so the four-set victory made Alcaraz, at 19, the youngest top-ranked man in ATP history.
Q 16Who ended Alcaraz's 2026 US Open title defence in a five-set quarter-final that finished after 3am?
Ben Shelton
Ben Shelton. He sealed the deciding tiebreak with an ace at 3.33am, the latest finish the US Open had seen, handing Alcaraz only the second five-set defeat of his career.
Q 17Whose record as youngest ATP No. 1 did Alcaraz break in 2022?
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt. The Australian was 20 when he reached the top in 2001, and the mark stood for 21 years until a 19-year-old took it by winning the US Open.
Q 18Alcaraz's 2023 Indian Wells win made him the second-fastest player to 100 wins, behind whom?
John McEnroe
John McEnroe. The American needed 131 matches and Alcaraz 132, which put the Spaniard ahead of every member of the Big Three on the way to 100 wins.
Q 19Which world No. 135 stunned Alcaraz in straight sets at the 2023 Italian Open?
Fabian Marozsan
Fabian Marozsan. The Hungarian qualifier was playing in the first ATP Tour main draw of his career, yet he won 6–3, 7–6 for his first victory over a top-ten player.
Q 20Why did Alcaraz fade in the 2023 French Open semifinal against Djokovic?
Cramps
Cramps. At one set all his hand and then his legs locked up, and he admitted afterwards that the nerves of the occasion had brought them on.
Channel Slam. He was 21 when he retained his Wimbledon title in straight sets, and that same evening he celebrated Spain beating England in the Euro 2024 final.
Q 24Alcaraz's Netflix series My Way showed his team objecting to his post-French Open trips to which party island?
Ibiza
Ibiza. A few days there after the clay season became his yearly ritual, and in 2024 he followed the break with his second Wimbledon title.
Q 25Whom did Alcaraz beat in the Indian Wells final in both 2023 and 2024?
Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Medvedev. The first final was a 6–3, 6–2 rout, and in the rematch a year later Alcaraz fell 3–0 behind before again winning in straight sets.
Q 26Where did a losing Alcaraz smash his racket into the court in 2024, then publicly apologise?
Cincinnati
Cincinnati. Frustrated while losing to Gaël Monfils, he beat the racket out of shape on the court, then apologised and called it the worst match of his career.
Q 27Who knocked Alcaraz out of the 2024 US Open in the second round?
Botic van de Zandschulp
Botic van de Zandschulp. Alcaraz had beaten the Dutchman in his very first match at a major in 2021; three years later he lost to him in straight sets as the French Open and Wimbledon champion.
Q 28At which 2024 tournament did Alcaraz end the world No. 1's 15-match winning streak in a final-set tiebreak?
China Open
China Open. The Beijing final lasted three hours and 21 minutes, and the title came only weeks after his shock second-round exit in New York.
Q 29Alcaraz's first indoor hardcourt title came in 2025 at which event?
Rotterdam
Rotterdam. Entering the Dutch event for the first time, he beat Alex de Minaur in three sets: it was his 17th title, but the first he had ever won indoors.
Q 30Alcaraz's 2025 French Open final win was his first career comeback from what deficit?
Two sets
Two sets. He had never won from there before, and at 0–40 on his own serve in the fourth set he saved three championship points in a row before winning a deciding tiebreak.