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Spain · born Rincón de la Victoria, 1999 · right-handed · Wimbledon boys' champion 2017
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2017
Wimbledon boys' singles champion
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ATP title, Mallorca 2026, on grass
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Final, the one that brought his first title
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Best Wimbledon result, 2026
14
Career-high ATP ranking, November 2025
Born on 5 June 1999 in Rincón de la Victoria, near Málaga, to a Swedish-Russian father and a Russian mother, Davidovich Fokina first played with his father on the sand courts by the beach and worked with the coach Jorge Aguirre from the age of 11 until 2024. He won the Wimbledon boys' title in 2017, beat the world No. 1 Novak Djokovic on the way to the 2022 Monte Carlo Masters final and lost four more finals in 2025, holding match points in two of them. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 14 in November 2025. In 2026 he won his first title on grass in Mallorca, reached the quarter-finals at Queen's and lost a five-set fourth round at Wimbledon to Felix Auger-Aliassime.
| Wimbledon singles | Fourth round 2026; third round 2023 and 2025; second round 2022; first round 2021; did not play 2024 |
|---|---|
| Grass titles | Mallorca 2026 as second seed, beating Adam Walton, Grigor Dimitrov and Fabian Marozsan, then Ethan Quinn 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the final |
| Junior | Wimbledon boys' champion 2017 without dropping a set, beating Axel Geller 7-6 (2), 6-3 in the final |
| Wimbledon defeats to remember | 2022: lost to Jiřà Veselý 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-7 (7), the last point a penalty. 2026: lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (2), 1-6 in 4 hours 25 minutes |
| Other grass events | Queen's quarter-final 2026, lost to Tommy Paul; Wimbledon first-round win over seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz in five sets, 2022 |
| Mallorca | ||
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| 2026 | Men's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"The first time I played on grass, I must have fallen at least 40 times."
The person behind the player.
Málaga, 2000s
His father, Eduard, a former boxer of Swedish-Russian descent, did not want his son to follow him into the ring. He gave him a racquet at two, and they played together on the sand courts by the beach. "I started with my father on the beach, in the sand courts in my city," Davidovich Fokina said.
Source: HEADWimbledon 2017 · Boys' singles
He arrived from the Roland-Garros junior semi-finals with only a few days of grass practice and spent them on the ground. "The first time I played on grass, I must have fallen at least 40 times," he said. He won the title without dropping a set, the first Spaniard to win a junior major in about 50 years.
Source: HEADWimbledon 2022 · Court 17
After beating the seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz, he reached a deciding tiebreak against Jiřà Veselý. A few minutes after a warning, he hit a ball out of the court, and the second code violation came at 7-9 in the tiebreak: a point penalty on match point. He spoke calmly to the umpire, Carlos Ramos, then sat with a towel over his face.
Source: Tennis MajorsMallorca 2026
He had lost five finals, two of them after holding championship points, at Delray Beach and Washington in 2025. In his sixth, on grass against Ethan Quinn, he won a tight first-set tiebreak and closed the match with three aces in the last game, the final one on match point.
Source: Tennis MajorsWimbledon 2026 · Fourth round
At 3-5 in the fourth set against Felix Auger-Aliassime, with two match points against him, he went down with his ankle and called the physio. Auger-Aliassime double-faulted on the restart, lost the set and won the fifth, then called the rule a disgrace. Davidovich Fokina said the ankle had troubled him since he twisted it in training in Monte Carlo.
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