US Open 2025

[TonyDown]

Carlos Alcaraz is getting a lot of feedback on his buzz cut.

Frances Tiafoe gave a heavy dose of teasing.  Sounds like he's a little shocked to see all the beautiful hair gone!

Alcaraz shared that his brother cuts his hair.  

 

Any predictions for the tournament?

Sinner and Alcaraz are 1 and 2.  Sinner looks hot.

 

 

Edited August 26 by TonyDown

[BuffaloKyle]

26 minutes ago, TonyDown said:

Alcaraz shared that his brother cuts his hair.

Actually his regular barber was unavailable so that's why he had his brother attempt to cut his hair. It didn't turn out good so he then buzzed it all off. I think it looks fine, mine grows so fast I get it buzzed down as well. If he's like me it'll have grown out quite a bit already by the end of the tournament.

[Andy768]

me checking the score, me seeing the score #teamcarlitos

[BuffaloKyle]

My hometown girl Jessica Pegula played so good last night. I so thought she was gonna win that semifinal last night. The way she stormed back and steamrolled Sabalenka in the first set I thought was gonna carry over but alas not to be.

[BuffaloKyle]

I think Carlos looks sexy as heck. His hair grew in a bit. He looks fine:

[BSR]

On 8/26/2025 at 10:12 PM, BuffaloKyle said:

Actually his regular barber was unavailable so that's why he had his brother attempt to cut his hair. It didn't turn out good so he then buzzed it all off. I think it looks fine, mine grows so fast I get it buzzed down as well. If he's like me it'll have grown out quite a bit already by the end of the tournament.

A bit of background on now 2-time US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz:  he has 3 brothers.  The oldest Álvaro, the amateur barber who travels with him full-time, also wanted to be a professional tennis player but lacked the talent.  Carlitos learned how to play from his dad, who is or at least was a tennis teaching pro.  Carlos Sr. tried to become a pro player as well but only got to #963, maybe because of lack of talent, undoubtedly at least in part due to lack of resources.  It costs a boatload to pay for proper coaching/training plus the costs of travel and other expenses to play the juniors, Futures, Challengers, funds the dad simply didn’t have, nor could he have gotten from the Spanish Tennis Federation given his low national ranking (just #40 in Spain).

Carlos Jr. (he prefers to be called either Carlitos or Charlie to avoid confusion with his dad) started at Juan Carlos Ferrero’s academy at 15, thanks to a well-to-do businessman from Carlitos’s small town who set up an “audition.”  JCF instantly saw Carlitos’s potential and took him in, I’m assuming on scholarship  because a tennis pro with 4 kids is in no position to pay for a tennis academy (which usually costs $8000+ per month plus travel expenses).  

JCF was so convinced of Carlitos’s potential that he turned down a hell of an offer to coach him.  When Darren Cahill was leaving his position as coach of Simona Halep, Cahill approached JCF to see if he was interested in taking over.  Mind you, given that Halep was #1 at the time and that the coach usually gets 10% of the player’s prize money on top of a base salary (in other words, when you see the coach rooting like crazy for his player, that passionate encouragement also has a financial component), the position of Halep’s coach would have been very lucrative for JCF.  But he turned Cahill down because he had a 15yo who was “really good” and wanted to focus on him.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Edited September 10 by BSR
Typos, missing details

[BuffaloKyle]

Now Carlos got his hair dyed blonde:

“Surprise, surprise!” Carlos Alcaraz debuts platinum blond hair after US Open win | Tennis.com

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The 22-year-old shared photos of his hair journey—from older brother Alvaro’s botched shave to his new makeover—on Instagram.

 

[BSR]

On 8/26/2025 at 9:43 PM, TonyDown said:

Alcaraz shared that his brother cuts his hair. 

Given that Carlos has already earned $48 million this year (and there’s still a boatload of prize money in the upcoming fall tournaments), I’m pretty sure he can pay for a haircut.  Also, many tournaments provide free hair stylists as a player amenity.  I’m guessing they were stuck somewhere, too late to find an open barbershop, and Álvaro offered to cut Carlitos’s hair — hey, it can’t be that tough, right?  Uh oh …

[topunderachiever]

He's gone BLONDE !!!  

Carlos Alcaraz goes platinum blonde after US Open win — and fans are shocked

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Carlos Alcaraz finally shows off his new platinum blonde look after winning the U.S. Open.