Overview

• Carlos Alcaraz has won his first three singles matches in straight sets, dropping just 21 games and losing serve only once to reach the second week.
• He briefly treated left-knee discomfort during a straight-sets win over Luciano Darderi, then closed out the match and next faces Arthur Rinderknech in the fourth round.
• Alcaraz said the shaved look followed a clipper mix-up by his brother, adding that the only fix was to cut it all off.
• Emma Raducanu defended the look as confident, Frances Tiafoe called it terrible, Naomi Osaka encouraged experimentation, and Alexander Zverev joked he’d need €50 million to copy it.
• Raducanu and Alcaraz lost their mixed doubles opener to Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula, and both have publicly refuted dating rumors while Raducanu moved into a third-round meeting with Elena Rybakina.