Carlos Alcaraz meets Messi to win the Laureus Breakthrough Of The Year Award

At an event held in Paris on Monday night, it was announced that Carlos Alcaraz had received the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year Award. Alcaraz is the fourth member of the ATP Tour to receive the honor, following Andy Murray (2006), Rafael Nadal (2006), and Marat Safin (2001). (2013). When Emma Raducanu done it in 2022, a tennis player has now won the prize two years in a row.

Alcaraz had a historic year in 2022, winning his first two ATP Masters 1000 championships in Miami and Madrid, winning his first slam at the US Open, and rising to the top of the world rankings at the age of 19 for the first time in the history of the ATP Rankings (since 1973). The Spaniard finished it off by becoming the ATP No. 1 awarded by Pepperstone for the youngest player of the year.

Carlitos also had the opportunity to meet soccer legend Leo Messi during the event.

Carlos Alcaraz in 2023

Ranked world no.2, Alcaraz played his last match on the 7th of May when he defeated world no.28 Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the final in Madrid to win his 10th career title.

Until now, during this year the Spaniard has achieved a compiled 29-2 match record. The Spaniard conquered 4 titles in 2023 in Buenos Aires, Indian Wells, Barcelona and Madrid. The Spaniard got to the final in Rio de Janeiro.

Lionel Messi

Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini

Forwarder, Midfielder

ArgentinaArgentina

Age: 37

170 cm

72 kg

Season 2024
Played 3 3 Missed
Minutes 270 90.0 Avg
Goals 3 1.0 Avg
Assist 1 0.3 Avg
Attempt 11 3.7 Avg
Passes 159 53.086.0% AvgSucc
Yellow 0 0.0 Avg
Red 0 0.0 Avg

This season he played in total 28 times for 2482 minutes for Ligue 1.

Lionel Messi scored 14 goals for Paris Saint Germain. He procured 15 assists. He received no yellow cards and no red cards.

His team is currently 1st in Ligue 1. In the last match Paris Saint Germain won 3-1 against Troyes. The next match in Ligue 1 will be against Ajaccio.

The last time the teams played each other, the score was 3-1 for Paris Saint Germain.

Paris Saint Germain performance and stats

Paris Saint Germain

Manager: Luis Enrique
Rank 1st
Win 17
Draw 8
Loss 1
Goals 62-23
Diff 39
Rank 2nd
Win 2
Draw 2
Loss 2
Goals 9-8
Diff 1

Paris Saint Germain is currently 1st in the Ligue 1 with 78 points.

In the last 34 games, it has won 25 times, drawn 3 times, and lost 6 times. In its last match, Paris Saint Germain won 1-3 against Troyes.​​

It has a positive goal difference after scoring 79 goals and conceding 35.​

Paris Saint Germain will play the next match in Ligue 1 against Ajaccio on Saturday 13th of May in Paris. The prediction is Paris Saint Germain winning the match.​