{"id":44709,"date":"2026-07-30T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/44709\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:30:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-debuts-bold-new-hairstyle-as-tennis-fans-compare-him-to-bad-bunny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/44709\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz debuts bold new hairstyle as tennis fans compare him to Bad Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tennis fans are in disbelief after world number three Carlos Alcaraz debuted a bold new hairstyle in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alcaraz is currently stepping up his recovery from a right wrist injury he suffered at the Barcelona Open in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The injury has forced him to miss both the French Open and Wimbledon, while he is expected to return for the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Alcaraz;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a> recently excited fans in a video of him playing indoors, but the reaction to his new hairstyle has not gone down well.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Jean Catuffe\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/hitc_articles_832\/670279fbed571151e143a3cdfa78a676.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jean Catuffe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>How tennis fans reacted to Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s fresh look<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carlos Alcaraz posted a series of images and videos on his <a data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carlitosalcarazz\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> account on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His post featured celebrations from his trip to New York to watch Spain in the World Cup final, as well as pictures of his new hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tennis fans have since taken to X to discuss Alcaraz&#8217;s fresh look; most comments were negative, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One viewer wrote: &#8220;Find his hairdresser as soon as possible. It&#8217;s a disaster!&#8221; Another added: &#8220;No, this isn&#8217;t possible, do something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I hate it&#8221; and &#8220;disgusting&#8221; were two further comments that summed up the general feeling on Alcaraz&#8217;s hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He thinks he&#8217;s <a data-ylk=\"slk:Bad Bunny;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/topic\/bad-bunny\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a>, I can&#8217;t take it anymore,&#8221; a fan humorously compared the tennis star to the Puerto Rican singer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alcaraz&#8217;s fans will hope that this is a temporary experiment and that he will soon return to a more traditional look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis fans are in disbelief after world number three Carlos Alcaraz debuted a bold new hairstyle in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[714,271,272,3619,389],"class_list":["post-44709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carlos-alcaraz","tag-barcelona-open","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-getty-images","tag-tennis-fans","tag-wrist-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}