Spectacular start for Spanish tennis at this start of the 2022 season. Rafa Nadal epitomizes success with his immaculate start, with 15 wins and zero losses and his three new titles in his showcase. But the man from Manacor is not the only successful Spanish tennis player this season. In the first two months of the year, titles have also come from Roberto Bautista, Albert Ramos, Carlos Alcaraz, Paula Badosa and Pedro Martínez, who won his first ATP title this weekend. In addition, the triumph in doubles of Feliciano López, champion in Acapulco together with the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Spanish tennis once again boasts enviable health. Of the 18 ATP tournaments that have been played so far this season, a Spanish tennis player has emerged as champion in seven of them. In other words, more than one out of every three tournaments played to date has had a player from the Navy as the winner. The one who has won the most titles has been Rafa Nadal , champion in Melbourne, at the Australian Open and in Acapulco . The Spaniard has had the best start to the season in his entire career with three consecutive titles.
The one from Manacor opened the can of titles for Spanish tennis in this 2022 and the last one to add one more has been Pedro Martínez Portero, who registered his name for the first time in the list of winners of an ATP tournament by triumphing in Chile. The 24-year-old Valencian beat Sebastián Baez in the final 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in 2 hours and 44 minutes of play. His victory has allowed him to make a great leap in the ranking, with a rise of 22 places to become the new number 50 in the ATP, the highest position of his career.
🏆 Melbourne (Nadal)
🏆 Australian Open (Nadal)
🏆 Cordoba (Ramos-Vinolas)
🏆 Doha (Bautista Agut)
🏆 River (Alcaraz)
🏆 Acapulco (Nadal)
🏆 Santiago (Martinez)Tennis 🇪🇸 has won 7⃣ of the 18 ATP Tour tournaments until February 2022 😱
– ATP Tour in Spanish (@ATPTour_ES) February 28, 2022
The one from Alcira has been the seventh Spaniard to win an individual ATP tournament in 2022, after the successes of Nadal, Alcaraz in Rio, Roberto Bautista in Doha and Albert Ramos in Córdoba. In addition, broadening her sights to the women’s circuit, Paula Badosa also added a title in Sydney at the beginning of the year; and in doubles, in Acapulco, Feliciano López took the title with Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Spain, the strongest power in the circuit
Spain leads the ranking of powers that have won the most titles this season. Of the 18 ATP tournaments that have been played to date, among the champions there have been up to 10 different nationalities. Spain tops the list with seven titles; Russia is second, with three titles, while France, Australia, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Canada, United States, Norway, Great Britain are the other countries that have had a champion in any of the tournaments played in this 2022.
That dominance of Spanish tennis players is also reflected in the ATP ranking. Among the 20 best placed, Spain has four rackets, being the country with the most representatives, and with seven among the fifty best in the world.
