17-year-old Joao Fonseca is seemingly the next super talent worth following on the ATP Tour, and thanks to a wild card, fans will get a chance to see him at the 2024 Halle Open. The Brazilian teenager turned heads earlier this year on clay in South America when he produced a sensational performance, making the…
Getty Images Round one continues at the Madrid Masters on Thursday with young American Alex Michelsen taking on fellow rising star Joao Fonseca and Czech teen Jakub Mensik facing German veteran Yannick Hanfmann. Alex Michelsen vs. (WC) Joao Fonseca This battle of the youngsters will be one to keep an eye on. American Alex Michelsen…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday April 18, 2024 He may be 276 in the rankings at the moment, but Brazil’s Joao Fonseca is looking like a future star. The 17-year-old locked up his second ATP quarterfinal on Thursday at Bucharest, and he did so in decisive fashion, backing up his opening-round win over…
17-year-old Joao Fonseca has been making headlines so far this season, and he will have a chance to do so again at the Bucharest Open. Fonseca’s talent has been known by many in the tennis world for some time. He won the US Open Juniors title last year, demonstrating the immense talent he possesses quite…
The inclement weather relented allowing the draw at this year’s Rio Open to reach the quarter final stage with the defending champion, Cameron Norrie, Britain’s No1, storming past Chile’s Tomas Barrios Vera 61 6-1 in just 61-minutes. Last night with the rain there was a lot of waiting around but I managed to come out…
More problems for the organisers of the Rio Open with rain disrupting play allowing only three matches to be played which included the last of the opening round encounters and two of the second-round clashes. And it was that final opening round result which caught the public’s imagination attention as 17-year-old Juan Fonseca, a Brazilian…
