Alejandro Davidovich Fokina plays tennis at full tilt: diving volleys, drop shots, underarm serves, the occasional implosion. Born in Malaga to a Russian mother and a Swedish-Russian father who boxed professionally, he announced himself at Monte-Carlo in 2022, beating world No. 1 Novak Djokovic on the way to the final. The run confirmed a talent that could trouble anyone, and it also set the pattern: the trophy went to someone else. He climbed to a career-high No. 14 in November 2025.
For a while he was tennis's great almost. Four finals in 2025 all ended in defeat, none crueler than Washington, where he held three championship points before Alex de Minaur escaped with a lob that clipped the sideline. Then in June 2026, in his sixth final, the wait ended: on home grass in Mallorca he beat Ethan Quinn 7-6(4), 6-3 for his first title, the tournament's first home champion. At 27 the shotmaker finally had silverware to match the highlight reel.
Thirteen. That is where Alejandro Davidovich Fokina now stands in the ATP rankings, up 13 places from 26, a career high one place past his old best of 14 and an entry into the top 20.
Ranking taleOne. That is how many games Alejandro Davidovich Fokina won in the opening set of the Shanghai Masters final, and he still beat Rafael Jodar 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 to take the first Masters 1000 title of his career, the biggest of his three.
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