He’s only played one match at this year’s US Open , but Carlos Alcaraz has already created a buzz.

The Spanish second seed arrived on court for his first-round match against American Reilly Opelka sporting a new – and pretty severe – haircut.

Clearly, the freshly-shorn Alcaraz hadn’t been drawing any Samson-like strength from his hair because he overcame Opelka in straight sets – 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 – to reach the second round.

“I felt like my hair was really long already, and before the tournament, I just really wanted to get a haircut,” he told reporters. “Suddenly, my brother just – he misunderstood with the machine. He just cut it. Then the only way to fix it is just shave it off.”

New York, Alcaraz added, was too far for his usual barber, Víctor Martínez, to travel, and he joked tha

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