Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is a quick, inventive baseliner whose game had long looked better suited to grass than his results suggested, and 2026 finally produced the evidence. He won his first ATP title in Mallorca, reached the Wimbledon fourth round and climbed from 26th to 16th in the GTC Grass Rankings with a GTC Grass Rating of 107.
Grass at a glance
- GTC Grass Rating: 107, 16th in the men’s rankings (26th before the season, on 98)
- Pillars: Lawn Form 66, Arsenal 60, Wimbledon 44, Nerve 58
- Nationality: Spain
- Best Wimbledon result: Fourth round (2026)
- Grass titles: Mallorca 2026
- Junior: Wimbledon boys’ champion 2017
- Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
How Alejandro plays on grass
Davidovich Fokina is one of the quicker movers on tour, and on grass that speed lets him reach low balls early and keep his feet set for counter-attacks. He hits a heavy forehand, changes pace often and is one of the more confident users of the drop shot on tour, a shot that pays more on grass than on any other surface because the ball dies quickly after the bounce.
The limits show on serve. His first delivery is solid rather than a weapon, and he does not collect the run of cheap holds that the bigger servers rely on, which is why his Arsenal score is 60. He compensates by returning well and by being willing to come forward, but too many of his service games become rallies.
The Nerve figure of 58 reflects a record of near misses. Before 2026 he had lost five ATP finals, and in two of them, Delray Beach and Washington in 2025, he held championship points. The Mallorca title and a five-set fight at Wimbledon suggest that pattern is changing.
Grass record
His best grass result before 2026 came as a junior: he won the Wimbledon boys’ title in 2017, beating Axel Geller 7-6(2), 6-3 in the final. The senior record was thin. He lost in the first round at Wimbledon in 2021, reached the second round in 2022 and the third round in 2023 and 2025, and did not play the event in 2024. He had never reached a tour-level grass final.
His five lost finals were all on other surfaces: Monte Carlo in 2022, then Delray Beach, Acapulco, Washington and Basel in 2025.
The 2026 grass season
The swing started badly. In Stuttgart he lost his opening match to Mattia Bellucci 2-6, 7-6(5), 1-6, and his rating stood at 98. Queen’s was better. He beat Cameron Norrie and Corentin Moutet before Tommy Paul beat him 6-3, 7-6(4) in the quarter-final, which lifted him to 100.
Mallorca was the turning point. As second seed he beat Adam Walton, Grigor Dimitrov and Fabian Marozsan, then beat Ethan Quinn 7-6(4), 6-3 in the final. He failed to serve out the first set at 5-4 but won the tie-break, and broke for 4-2 in the second. It was his first title at the sixth attempt, and it took his rating to 104. At Wimbledon he reached the fourth round without dropping a set, then lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(4), 6-7(6), 3-6, 7-6(2), 1-6 in 4 hours 25 minutes. He went down with an ankle scare at 3-5 in the fourth set, saved two match points and won the tie-break before fading in the fifth. His rating finished at 107.
Looking ahead to 2027
He will have Mallorca to defend and a quarter-final at Queen’s, so the schedule is likely to repeat. The improvement needed is on serve: more free points would turn the long service games that tired him in the Wimbledon fifth set into routine holds. A first Wimbledon quarter-final is a realistic target, and a second grass title would confirm that 2026 was a change in level rather than one strong fortnight.
