{"id":719765,"date":"2026-07-30T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:10:13","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-debuts-braid-hairstyle-in-new-photos-ahead-of-2026-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719765\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz Debuts Braid Hairstyle in New Photos Ahead of 2026 US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s return to the tennis court for the 2026 US Open may feature a new hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Alcaraz debuted a new braided hairstyle in a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbavFmiiFmc\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">series of photos on Instagram<\/a> recapping his July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Notably, the tennis star arrived at last year&#8217;s U.S. Open with a buzzcut. He <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/26\/sport\/tennis-us-open-alcaraz-haircut-intl\">explained<\/a> his brother messed up his haircut, and the buzz was the only solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">All eyes will be on Alcaraz at the U.S. Open regardless of his haircut of choice as he pursues his eighth career Grand Slam title. He has not competed in a tournament since April because of injury, so there may be some rust to shake off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Still, he figures to be one of the top competitors for the prize if he can quickly return to form.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz&#8217;s return to the tennis court for the 2026 US Open may feature a new hairstyle. Alcaraz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}