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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
He still lives at his parents' home there in the off-season and based his foundation in El Palmar.
Q 02Alcaraz's father coached at the club where he began playing at age four. His mother worked where?
IKEA
His father had given up a pro career as a teenager because he could not afford it.
Q 03Which racket company signed Alcaraz to his first contract at age 10?
Babolat
He plays a Pure Aero 98; in 2026 the brand launched a 'Carlitos Junior' range.
Q 04Which brother of Alcaraz works as his hitting partner and assistant coach?
Álvaro
He is the eldest of four boys' siblings; Sergio and Jaime are younger.
Q 05Which former world No. 1 became Alcaraz's coach when he moved to Villena in 2018?
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Ferrero won ATP Coach of the Year in 2022 and 2025; they split unexpectedly in December 2025.
Q 06Who became Alcaraz's head coach for 2026 after Ferrero's departure?
Samuel López
López had joined as second coach in December 2024 after working in Ferrero's team.
Q 07Whom did a 15-year-old Alcaraz beat in his Challenger debut in 2019, snapping a 16-match streak?
Jannik Sinner
It was the first chapter in a rivalry Alcaraz led 10–7 by 2026.
Q 08At which 2020 event did a 16-year-old Alcaraz win his first ATP main-draw match?
Rio Open
He beat Albert Ramos Viñolas in a three-hour-37-minute marathon as a wildcard.
Q 09Alcaraz first met Nadal in 2021, losing on his 18th birthday at which tournament?
Madrid
He had just become the event's youngest-ever match winner, breaking Nadal's 2004 record.
Q 10Where did Alcaraz win his first ATP title in July 2021?
Umag
He beat Richard Gasquet, the youngest ATP champion since Kei Nishikori in 2008.
Q 11Which world No. 3 did Alcaraz beat in a fifth-set tiebreak at the 2021 US Open?
Stefanos Tsitsipas
At 18 he became the youngest US Open men's quarter-finalist of the Open Era before retiring injured.
Q 12Alcaraz ended 2021 by winning which event for players aged 21 and under?
Next Gen ATP Finals
He dropped just one set; he had been named ATP Newcomer of the Year in 2020.
Q 13Alcaraz's first Masters 1000 title came in 2022 at which event, as the first Spaniard to win it?
Miami Open
He beat Casper Ruud in the final as the tournament's youngest men's champion.
Q 21How long was the 2023 Wimbledon final in which Alcaraz beat Djokovic?
4 h 42 min
He lost the first set 6–1 but won in five, the first man outside the Big Four to take the title since 2002.
Q 22Whom did Alcaraz beat in five sets in the 2024 French Open final for his first Roland Garros title?
Alexander Zverev
At 21 he became the youngest man to win majors on three surfaces.
Q 23Winning the French Open and Wimbledon in 2024 made Alcaraz the youngest man to achieve what?
Channel Slam
He was 21 years and 70 days old when he beat Djokovic in straight sets at Wimbledon.
Q 14In 2022, Alcaraz became the only man to beat which two players back-to-back on clay?
Nadal and Djokovic
He beat Nadal the day after his 19th birthday, Djokovic the next day, then Zverev in a 64-minute final.
Q 15Whom did Alcaraz beat in the 2022 US Open final for his first major?
Casper Ruud
The match doubled as a shoot-out for the No. 1 ranking, which he claimed at 19 years, 130 days.
Q 16At what time did Alcaraz's 2022 US Open quarterfinal with Sinner finish, the latest ever there?
2:50 AM
He saved a match point in a five-hour-15-minute epic.
Q 17Whose record as youngest ATP No. 1 did Alcaraz break in 2022?
Lleyton Hewitt
Only Lew Hoad, in the pre-rankings era, had been younger.
Q 18Alcaraz's 2023 Indian Wells win made him the second-fastest player to 100 wins, behind whom?
John McEnroe
He won the title without dropping a set, the first man to do so there since Federer in 2017.
Q 19Which world No. 135 stunned Alcaraz at the 2023 Italian Open, dubbed the upset of the year?
Fabian Marozsan
He had only needed to play his second-round match to regain No. 1 that week.
Q 20Why did Alcaraz fade in the 2023 French Open semifinal against Djokovic?
Cramps
The cramps hit at the start of the third set; Djokovic won in four and reclaimed No. 1.
Q 24Who beat Alcaraz in the Paris 2024 Olympic final in two tiebreak sets?
Novak Djokovic
Neither man was broken; Alcaraz became the youngest-ever men's singles silver medallist.
Q 25Alcaraz partnered which player in doubles at the Paris Olympics?
Rafael Nadal
They reached the quarterfinals; Nadal's career ended months later at the Davis Cup in Málaga.
Q 26Where did Alcaraz break a racket on court for the first time in 2024, prompting a public apology?
Cincinnati
Gaël Monfils had just upset him in the opening round.
Q 27Who knocked Alcaraz out of the 2024 US Open in the second round?
Botic van de Zandschulp
It was his earliest major exit since Wimbledon 2021.
Q 28Alcaraz's 2024 China Open win made him the first to win ATP 500 titles on which three surfaces?
Clay, grass and hard
He beat Sinner in the final, his third win over the Italian that year.
Q 29Alcaraz's first indoor hardcourt title came in 2025 at which event?
Rotterdam
He beat Alex de Minaur in the final during his first February on European hardcourts.
Q 30How many championship points did Sinner hold before Alcaraz won the 2025 French Open final?
Three
Alcaraz held from 0–40 in the fourth set and won a fifth-set super tiebreak after 5 hours 29 minutes.