Liam Caruana: ATP Ranking, Stats & Next Gen Profile
Italian wildcard at the 2018 Next Gen Finals.
Liam Caruana: Key Stats at a Glance
- Current ATP Ranking
- Unranked
- Career-High Ranking
- No. 148 (2019)
- Age
- 27 (born December 27, 1998)
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- Weight
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- Nationality
- 🇮🇹 ITA
- Birthplace
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- Turned Pro
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- Plays
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- 2026 Win-Loss
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- Career Titles
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- Career Prize Money
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- Next Gen Race Position
- Not eligible
- Next Gen Finals Appearances
- 1 (2018)
Next Gen Results
Career Trajectory
ATP Ranking over time · NG Finals marked with dotted lines
Liam Caruana: Next Gen ATP Finals Record
Liam Caruana has appeared at the Next Gen ATP Finals once, in 2018. Across those editions Caruana played 3 best-of-five short-set matches, winning 0 and losing 3 for a 0% match-win rate, and his best finish at the 21-and-under year-end event was group stage.
2018 — Milan, Italy: Caruana entered as the 1st seed and was drawn in Group A. He finished the week 0-3 in matches and exited as a group stage, collecting $50,000 in prize money. He did not record a win over a fellow qualifier that week. The title that year went to Stefanos Tsitsipas, who beat Alex de Minaur in the final. Others in the 2018 field included Andrey Rublev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alex de Minaur, Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe.
Measured against the full alumni field, Caruana sits 49th of 49 qualifiers by career-high ranking. 14 of those 49 players have reached the ATP top 10 at some point in their careers, which is the clearest measure of how reliably the Next Gen ATP Finals identifies future tour leaders. Caruana has not yet joined that group, with his career-high of No. 148 leaving him outside it.
The event uses a shortened best-of-five format with sets to four games, which is why match records here look different from regular tour results. Full winners are listed on the champions page.
Career Highlights
- Reached a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 148 on 2019-01-14.
- Group Stage at the Next Gen ATP Finals — his best result at the tournament, achieved in 2018.
Where Is Liam Caruana Now?
Liam Caruana no longer holds an ATP singles ranking; his career-high was World No. 148. He is 27 years old and no longer active on the ATP Tour.
Liam Caruana received a wildcard into the 2018 Next Gen Finals as the home favorite but couldn't advance from his group. He has since struggled to find consistency on the Challenger circuit.
The ranking trail we track for Caruana starts at No. 167 in 2018, the season around his first Next Gen qualification, and peaks at No. 141 in 2019. The most recent point in that history has him at No. 400, a net drop of 233 places from that starting point. Ranking movement at this level is driven mostly by results at Masters 1000 and Grand Slam level, where the points on offer dwarf anything available on the Challenger Tour.
At 27, Caruana is past the 20-and-under cut-off for the Next Gen ATP Finals, so his place in the story is now as Italian alumni rather than as a contender for a place in Italy. What his page tracks instead is the thing the tournament was built to predict: whether a strong week at the 21-and-under event translates into a durable top-level career.
Compare his trajectory with every other qualifier in the alumni tracker or track the current standings on the 2026 Next Gen race page.