Joao Fonseca continued where he left off at the Swiss Indoors as he kicked off his maiden Paris Masters campaign with a come-from-behind win over Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n
Fresh from winning the biggest title of his career after beating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the final of the ATP 500 event in Basel, Fonseca<\/a> bounced back from losing the opening set against Shapovalov to come away with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 win over the world No 24.<\/p>\n Playing only 48 hours after his win in Switzerland, the 19-year-old<\/a> took a medical timeout midway during the deciding set for treatment on his back and left thigh, but he assured everyone after the match that there was no reason to be concerned.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m feeling good. Tennis is like this,\u201d he said. \u201cWeek after week, you need to change the mindset, and there\u2019s going to be some little discomfort, mini injuries, where I felt a little bit tight, feeling tight. But feeling good, nothing that a good physio can\u2019t make it good in one day.<\/p>\n \u201cI think tomorrow is going to be great. I\u2019m already feeling better. Tomorrow is another good day, so I\u2019m going to fight till the end.\u201d<\/p>\n The Brazilian \u2013 who will face 10th seed Karen Khachanov in the second round \u2013 rose to a career-high No 28<\/a> in the ATP Rankings after his Basel title run and he is now closing in on another milestone after his win over Shapovalov.<\/p>\n Fonseca has climbed four places in the Live Rankings to No 24 and is now virtually assured of being seeded at next year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n The youngster is set to feature at the Hellenic Championships and Next Gen ATP Finals after the Paris Masters, but his team\u2019s decision to carefully plan his 2025 schedule has paid off.<\/p>\n Joao Fonseca backed to be \u2018next Novak Djokovic to beat Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Who are Joao Fonseca\u2019s parents? How Roberta and Christiano Fonseca nurtured rising star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis year was my first year as playing the big tournaments. So one of the things that me and my team, we try to focus a lot was which weeks we\u2019re going to play, which weeks not going to play, focus more on physique and mentality,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cI missed Asia. I was sick, but also because of my mental and my physique. Yeah, we didn\u2019t go because it was too many things, Davis Cup, Laver Cup, and I was going directly to Asia. Yeah, I felt a little bit more sick so I didn\u2019t go to Shanghai also. Then I started indoors.<\/p>\n \u2018The week after week is a lot of things, but it\u2019s my first year, so I can\u2019t complain. I\u2019m just enjoying a lot the tour. But what I can see, a lot of players saying it\u2019s too much sometimes. But yeah, this year we just knew it was going to be very much and we just focus on which weeks we\u2019re going to play or not.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Joao Fonseca gives injury update after continuing stunning rise in ATP Rankings<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joao Fonseca continued where he left off at the Swiss Indoors as he kicked off his maiden Paris Masters campaign with a come-from-behind win over Denis Shapovalov. Fresh from winning the biggest title of his career after beating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the final of the ATP 500 event in Basel, Fonseca bounced back from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Another Rankings Boost<\/h2>\n
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