{"id":930,"date":"2025-08-26T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:02:37","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-explains-reason-for-horrible-haircut-after-making-it-19-0-in-grand-slam-first-round-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz explains reason for \u2018horrible\u2019 haircut after making it 19-0 in Grand Slam first-round matches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frances Tiafoe called it \u201chorrible\u201d, but Carlos Alcaraz has explained that he was forced to shave his hair off following a misunderstanding with his barber <\/del>brother.<\/p>\n

A day before his first-round match at the 2025 US Open, Alcaraz had his usual long hair with a stubble beard, but then on the morning of his clash against Reilly Opelka, he arrived with a fresh cut at the practice grounds at Flushing Meadows<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It set the tongues wagging on social media while a video of Tiafoe and Alcaraz<\/a> joking in the locker room gym also made the roundsd on the internet.<\/p>\n

After his win over Yoshito Nishioka, the American was asked about the Spaniard\u2019s haircut and replied: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s horrible. It\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s definitely terrible. He\u2019s my guy though. It\u2019s funny. I looked at him and I was like, I guess you\u2019re aerodynamic.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Alcaraz\u2019s coach] Juan Carlos \u201cMosquito\u201d was laughing. He was like, \u2018Yeah, he\u2019s faster than he already was.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Well, that\u2019s a problem.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know who told him that it\u2019s good. I don\u2019t know who told him to do that, but it\u2019s terrible. From a guy who gets haircuts week in, week out, and prides myself on good haircuts, it\u2019s horrendous.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s Carlos, and that\u2019s my guy. But yeah, he needs to get with me. He needs to get with me for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz went on to win his match against Opelka as he claimed a 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 victory for his 19th consecutive first-round win at Grand Slams, joining greats Bjorn Borg and Rafael Nadal on the list of players to start their major careers with a 19-0 record.<\/p>\n

But after the match, all the focus was on Alcaraz\u2019s haircut and he was asked about Tiafoe\u2019s comments and said: \u201cFrances is lying. No, come on. Yeah, I saw the video. He showed up here saying that it is terrible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know he\u2019s lying. I know he likes the haircut. He likes it. He told me. So no, not hear anything about coming from his mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But he then went on to explain exactly what went wrong as his brother Alvaro got things horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite different I guess. I felt like my hair was really long already,\u201d the five-time Grand Slam winner said. \u201cAnd before the tournament I said that I really want to get a haircut.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly my brother just misunderstood with the machine. He just cut it and the only way to fix it is just to shave it off. To be honest it\u2019s not that good\u2026 it\u2019s not that bad I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz has in the past flown in his barter Victor Martinez \u2013 who goes as \u201cVictor Barber\u201d on social media \u2013 for tournaments in Europe, but it wasn\u2019t possible for the tournament in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York is too far away for Victor. I\u2019m not really into hair at all. I\u2019m the guy who thinks like, \u2018okay hair grows,\u2019 and in a few days it\u2019s gonna be okay I guess. It just happened and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frances Tiafoe called it \u201chorrible\u201d, but Carlos Alcaraz has explained that he was forced to shave his hair off following a misunderstanding with his barber brother. A day before his first-round match at the 2025 US Open, Alcaraz had his usual long hair with a stubble beard, but then on the morning of his clash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}