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Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is a Spanish right-hander with a two-handed backhand, raised in La Cala del Moral on the coast near Málaga. His father, a former boxer, introduced him to tennis when he was very young. He trained first in La Cala del Moral and later at Racket Club Fuengirola, and he left home at 16 to keep developing, according to the ATP.
Roland-Garros describes his style as all-court and high-energy. He speaks Spanish, English and Russian, and away from tennis he co-founded Adoptas.org, a pet adoption platform in Spain, in 2021.
2017: wins the Wimbledon boys' singles title
2021: reaches his first Grand Slam quarter-final, at Roland-Garros
2022: reaches the Monte-Carlo Masters final, losing to Stefanos Tsitsipas
18 October 2026: wins the Shanghai Masters, his first Masters 1000 title, beating Rafael Jodar from a set and a break down