Probably the most attention-grabbing matters on this begin of 2025 is definitely the rise of Joao Fonseca. The younger Brazilian ace is constant to impress everybody along with his sensible performances and had defeated a Prime 10 participant like Andrey Rublev on the Australian Open, leaving the entire world speechless.
In current months, Fonseca has improved in all respects and confirmed this in Buenos Aires final week by profitable his first ATP title at simply 18 years outdated.
Joao is admittedly very full and has an influence from the baseline that remembers that of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who’ve taken management of the lads’s tour within the final twelve months.
The present world quantity 68 is aware of that he has to maintain working to change into a prime participant and has surrounded himself with the suitable folks for his future, though he must begin managing a very enormous strain coming from the fixed comparability with Gustavo Kuerten.
Petkovic opens up on Fonseca
On the newest version of the ‘Tennis Channel Dwell Podcast’, former WTA star Andrea Petkovic predicted which Fonseca’s place within the ATP rating might be on the finish of the 2025 season: “I believe he’s going to finish within the prime 20. I hope for him he can have a sluggish and regular rise as a result of that may bode nicely for the following 15 years as an alternative of a fast rise which might be nice for tennis.
However for him personally I hope that it’s a sluggish and regular rise. And no person needs to see him unseeded in a significant event even near their part. That’s horrible, proper? When you see Fonseca at 68!”
The younger Brazilian expertise doesn’t have a lot time to benefit from the triumph in Argentina, as he’ll play the Rio Open this week.
Joao – who had change into well-known all around the world precisely a yr in the past by reaching the quarterfinals in Rio – will face the French ace Alexandre Muller in his debut.
