Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s bold new haircut has caused a stir at the 2025 US Open, and John McEnroe and Maria Sharapova have weighed in.<\/p>\n
The Spanish star surprised observers by appearing for a practice session at Flushing Meadows on Monday with a buzz cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n The five-time Grand Slam champion\u2019s new style drew further attention later that day as he opened his US Open<\/a> campaign with an impressive 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 win over Reilly Opelka.<\/p>\n Alcaraz has explained he was forced to go for a very short shave<\/a> due to his brother Alvaro making a mistake when cutting his hair in New York.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old has previously flown in his barber Victor Martinez for haircuts during tournaments in Europe.<\/p>\n While the role was handed to Alcaraz\u2019s brother this time, McEnroe suggested the world No 2 should have visited a barber in New York.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all his haircut\u2026 did he get the buzz cut from his hair stylist in Spain? He brought him in at Wimbledon,\u201d the seven-time major singles champion told ESPN.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m wondering, because you can get that for 20 bucks in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz fires \u2018big target\u2019 warning at Jannik Sinner ahead of US Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 2025 US Open: Points being dropped by Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sharapova, who was with McEnroe in the commentary box, could not look past Alcaraz\u2019s new style when asked about the Spaniard\u2019s rise in the sport.<\/p>\n \u201cI haven\u2019t gotten to the tennis. I\u2019m still stuck at the buzz cut. It\u2019s so low maintenance. And he just did it. That\u2019s a good effort,\u201d said the five-time Grand Slam winner.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d be so superstitious. But that\u2019s what you have to love about him is just his ability to be so free and so confident and have this particular aura about him that transcends the game.\u201d<\/p>\n In his press conference, Alcaraz was asked about the response he has had to his haircut.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, since I just show the people my haircut, I didn\u2019t see anything else in talking about my haircut,\u201d said the 2022 US Open champion.<\/p>\n \u201cSome people like it. Some people don\u2019t like it. To be honest, I\u2019m just laughing about the reaction of the people.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is what it is. So I can\u2019t do anything else right now, so I\u2019m just laughing about everything that they are talking about my haircut.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: The 8 youngest men to reach second round of four Grand Slams in same year: Joao Fonseca ahead of Rafael Nadal<\/a> The post What John McEnroe and Maria Sharapova said about Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s new US Open haircut<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s bold new haircut has caused a stir at the 2025 US Open, and John McEnroe and Maria Sharapova have weighed in. The Spanish star surprised observers by appearing for a practice session at Flushing Meadows on Monday with a buzz cut. The five-time Grand Slam champion\u2019s new style drew further attention later that […]<\/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-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Carlos Alcaraz News<\/h2>\n
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