{"id":177394,"date":"2025-08-26T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177394\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:54:14","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-given-brutal-haircut-verdict-by-us-open-rival-tennis-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177394\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz given brutal haircut verdict by US Open rival &#8211; Tennis &#8211; Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s new buzzcut hairstyle left <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Frances Tiafoe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/frances-tiafoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Tiafoe<\/a> speechless before the American insisted it is \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US Open &#8211; the final Grand Slam of the season &#8211; has hit the ground running with upsets already happening in the first round as <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/tennis\/181460\/madison-keys-coco-gauff-us-open-navarro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open champion Madison Keys fell to Renata Zarazua<\/a>. Meanwhile, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Novak Djokovic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/novak-djokovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> got off to a winning start while Daniil Medvedev clashed with an umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Before his opening match, Alcaraz <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/sport\/tennis\/181475\/carlos-alcaraz-us-open-haircut-rory-mcilroy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warmed up and unveiled his new haircut<\/a> to the world. Fans were divided online, while the official US Open X account compared Alcaraz to David Beckham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, others have not been positive. Tiafoe was clearly lost for words when he saw <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Carlos Alcaraz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a>\u2019s hair for the first time, simply staring at the Spaniard\u2019s skull with his mouth agape.<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe and Alcaraz are friends off the court. The duo often engages in friendly trash talk while they also joke and laugh together, and both men bring positive showmanship to the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his reaction to Alcaraz\u2019s hair, Tiafoe said: \u201cYeah, it&#8217;s horrible. It&#8217;s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe then added: \u201cI mean, it&#8217;s definitely terrible. He&#8217;s my guy, though. It&#8217;s funny. I looked at him and I was like, \u2018I guess you&#8217;re aerodynamic.\u2019 Juan Carlos \u2018Mosquito\u2019 was laughing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was like, \u2018Yeah, he&#8217;s faster than he already was.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Well, that&#8217;s a problem.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I don&#8217;t know who told him that it&#8217;s good. I don&#8217;t know who told him to do that, but it&#8217;s terrible. From a guy who gets haircuts week in, week out, and prides myself on good haircuts, it&#8217;s horrendous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, it&#8217;s Carlos, and that&#8217;s my guy. But yeah, he needs to get with me. He needs to get with me for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new-look Alcaraz takes on Reilly Opelka at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday, Aug. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s new buzzcut hairstyle left Frances Tiafoe speechless before the American insisted it is \u201cterrible.\u201d The US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100603,1466,27762,100604,62,1464,67,132,68,10118],"class_list":{"0":"post-177394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-buzzcut","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-frances-tiafoe","11":"tag-hairstyle","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}