Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (born 5 June 1999) is a Spanish professional tennis player.
He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 21 achieved on 21 August 2023 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 196 achieved on 21 February 2022.
Davidovich Fokina was born and raised in La Cala del Moral, Rincón de la Victoria, about 10 km away from Málaga, Spain, to a Swedish-Russian father Eduard Mark Davidovich, and a Russian mother Tatiana Fokina.
His father is a former boxer.
Davidovich Fokina has a brother, Mark.
Alejandro began playing tennis with his father at the age of three.
When he turned five, he started training at Calaflores and later Serramar tennis courts with coach Manolo Rubiales.
Davidovich Fokina was Spanish Champion at U12, U15 and U18 levels.
2016
He started his professional tennis career in 2016.
He won his first ITF Grade 1 in Canada at the Repentigny Internationaux de Tennis Junior, defeating Félix Auger-Aliassime in the semifinal, and Liam Caruana in the final.
In October, he won his first doubles title in a Futures tournament held in Nigeria partnering French player Alexis Klégou.
2017
During 2017, as a junior, he made his ATP debut at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in April thanks to a qualifying wild card.
He defeated Roberto Carballés Baena in three sets.
He lost in the second round of qualifying to Santiago Giraldo in three sets.
He also reached the junior Roland Garros semifinals, losing to Alexei Popyrin in straight sets.
He defeated Rudolf Molleker in the first round and won the 2017 Wimbledon boys' singles title without dropping a set, winning the final against Argentine Axel Geller.
2018
In 2018, he was the hitting partner for the Spanish Davis Cup team at the tie Spain vs. Great Britain held at Marbella.
In March, Davidovich won his first ITF Futures 15K title at Quinta do Lago in Portugal, defeating Roberto Ortega Olmedo.
He started playing the ATP Challenger Tour during the season.
He received his first qualifying wildcard for ATP Masters 1000 at Madrid where he lost against Taylor Fritz.
At the ATP Lisbon Challenger in May, he defeated Alex de Minaur in the first round.
He then lost to Christian Harrison in the second.
In the second round of Wimbledon qualifying, he lost to Peter Polansky.
In September, Davidovich reached his first ATP Challenger final in Poland after defeating Molleker in the semifinal.
He lost the final against Guido Andreozzi in three sets.
During his Asian tour, he reached the quarterfinals at the Liuzhou Challenger and the semifinals at the Shenzhen Challenger.
Davidovich Fokina started the season playing the first round of Australian Open qualifying by defeating Daniel Gimeno Traver.
He reached the quarterfinals at the Chennai Challenger and the final at the Bangkok Challenger II, which he lost to James Duckworth.
He made the semifinals at the Marbella Challenger on his home soil, losing to Pablo Andújar in three sets.
He played his first ATP main draw match, losing in the first round of the Grand Prix Hassan II to Philipp Kohlschreiber after winning two qualifying matches.
2019
Later in the month, he reached the semifinals of the 2019 Estoril Open as a qualifier, beating Gaël Monfils and Taylor Fritz along the way.
He entered in the main draw of his first Grand Slam at the 2019 French Open as a lucky loser.
Later in the year, he finally won his first ATP Challenger title, defeating Jaume Munar to win the Seville Challenger.
Just a month after that triumph, he won his second Challenger title in Liuzhou, defeating Denis Istomin in the final.
2020
In 2020, Davidovich Fokina reached the second round of a Grand Slam for the first time at the 2020 Australian Open.
He beat Norbert Gombos in a 5-set epic before falling to Diego Schwartzman.
He won his first ATP title in doubles at the 2020 Chile Open in Santiago, partnering with fellow Spaniard Roberto Carballés Baena, where they defeated 2nd seeded pair Marcelo Arévalo/Jonny O'Mara in the final.
He reached the second round of the 2020 French Open for the first time by defeating wildcard Harold Mayot before losing to 13th seed Andrey Rublev.
At the 2020 US Open, Davidovich Fokina reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, beating Dennis Novak, Hubert Hurkacz, and Cameron Norrie, before losing in straight sets to Alexander Zverev.
In Cologne 1, he reached the semifinals, beating qualifier Emil Ruusuvuori, 8th seed Marin Cilic, and Dennis Novak before losing to eventual champion and top seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets.
