For the past few years, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina has held a singular place in tennis history. He’d made more in prize money—millions more—than any other man or woman who had never won a singles tournament.

On Saturday in Mallorca, the Spaniard put the “richest loser” moniker to bed. The 27-year-old beat American Ethan Quinn 7-6, 6-3 to win the Mallorca Championships. It’s his first singles title in almost 150 tournaments, and the roughly $106,000 prize (€93,175) will bring his career on-court earnings to more than $11.8 million.

For context on that number, there’s only one other tennis player in history who has won more than $10 million in prize money and hasn’t won multiple titles. Among active men’s tennis players, Fokina’s prize haul puts him between Alexander Bublik and Ugo Humbert. Bublik has nine career singles titles. Humbert has seven.

Fokina, of course, is extremely good at tennis. His peak singles ranking of No. 14 was achieved in 2025, and he entered Mallorca as the world No. 25. He’ll be seeded No. 22 at Wimbledon next week. He has a 4-4 career record versus Taylor Fritz (10 titles), a 3-4 record versus Alex de Minaur (11 titles), and a 3-4 record versus Casper Ruud (14 titles and three Grand Slam finals appearances). He has played in five tournament finals prior to Mallorca.

And while it’s hard to win an ATP title, it’s not that hard for most players of his caliber. More than 20 men have already done it in 2026, and we’re only halfway through the calendar year. Many ATP 250s—the lowest tier of ATP events, which includes Mallorca—only require four wins for players who get a first-round bye, and draws sometimes contain only one or no top 10 players. Kamil Majchrzak, who has never finished a season ranked in the top 50, just won one at ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Fokina, who is sponsored by Adidas, had been heartbreakingly close to a championship for years. Leading 6-3, 1-6, 5-2 in the 2025 Delray Beach Open final, Fokina ripped a forehand down the line on match point that would have been a championship-clinching winner had it not landed out by less than an inch. He then squandered a second match point before eventually losing 5-7 in the third set to Miomir Kecmanovic.

A few months later, Fokina found himself in a similar spot in the 2025 Mubadala Citi DC Open final against de Minaur, attacking with a forehand up the line on match point. This time, his shot went in, but his opponent hit a no-look defensive lob that just landed on the sideline. De Minaur eventually won the point, one of three match points he saved, and beat Fokina in a third-set tiebreaker.

Prior to the trophy ceremony following the match, de Minaur was seen sitting next to Fokina consoling him after yet another brutal loss.

“I know [Fokina] is probably thinking about trying to win that first title just to get that monkey off his back, but what he’s doing is so much better than winning that title, essentially,” de Minaur told Sportico at the 2025 U.S. Open. “He’s putting up results that are pretty impressive, he’s a top 20 player, he’s a force to be reckoned with … whether he has a title or not doesn’t really change that.”

(Fokina, it should be noted, does have one doubles title to his name. He and Roberto Carballes Baena won the 2020 Chile Open. Fokina’s haul for that event was $17,800).

The increase in prize money in tennis over the past decade, along with inflation, has allowed Fokina to achieve this strange milestone. Steve Denton, an American tennis player in the 1980s, made two Australian Open finals and yet somehow never won a title at any level, but made just over $1 million in his career back in that era (between $3 million and $4 million adjusting for inflation).

With Fokina winning his first tournament, the title of the “richest loser” in men’s tennis is now bestowed on someone else. That unlucky—or lucky?—player is now fellow Spaniard Jaume Munar. But Munar isn’t yet in Fokina territory. He’s won $7.3 million in his tennis career, just over 60% of Fokina’s haul.