Joao Fonseca is gearing up for the \u201cgreat experience\u201d of facing Carlos Alcaraz as the Brazilian and world No 1 get set to meet for the very first time at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n
All eyes were on a potential clash between rising star Fonseca and seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz when the Miami Open draw was made on Monday<\/a>, with the two landing in the same mini-section of the draw.<\/p>\n As a seeded player, 2022 Miami Open champion Alcaraz<\/a> was handed a bye into the second round, with the winner of the first-round clash between Fonseca<\/a> and Fabian Marozsan set to be his first opponent.<\/p>\n Miami Open: Who is Alex Eala\u2019s Round 3 opponent? Meet giant-killer Magda Linette<\/a><\/p>\n Teenage prodigy Moise Kouame +66 in ATP Rankings as he makes history with Miami Open win<\/a><\/p>\n It is now confirmed that the Spaniard will face Fonseca on Friday night, with the world No 39 battling past Marozsan 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to reach the second round in Miami.<\/p>\n Alcaraz and the Brazilian met in an exhibition match in Miami last December<\/a>, though this is their first official ATP Tour contest between the two.<\/p>\n Fonseca has long been recognised as one of the most talented prospects in the men\u2019s game, and recently impressed in an encouraging display against world No 2 Jannik Sinner in Indian Wells<\/a>.<\/p>\n Having pushed Sinner to two tiebreak sets in his first-ever contest against the Italian, Fonseca now gets to test himself against world No 1 Alcaraz in the second half of the \u2018Sunshine Double\u2019.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters in Miami after his opening win at the Masters 1000 tournament, the 19-year-old discussed the opportunity to face Alcaraz for the first time.<\/p>\n \u201cFacing Alcaraz is a great experience for me,\u201d said Fonseca.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the last tournament I played against Jannik, and now playing against Carlos is a great achievement for me.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, as a teenager in the second year on Tour, facing those guys is just important for my development, at any time.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to face them, to see how I am at my level, where I can go, what those guys do that the other players don\u2019t, and how they deal with pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcaraz will enter this contest as the favourite to seal victory, though all eyes will be on just how much of a challenge Fonseca can provide.<\/p>\n The world No 1 was stunned in the second round of the Miami Open by David Goffin twelve months ago<\/a>, and he has not reached the final of the event since lifting the title back in 2022.<\/p>\n Alcaraz also heads into the event off the back of his first defeat of the season, with the Spaniard looking to return to winning ways after an Indian Wells semi-final loss to Daniil Medvedev last Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n The winner of this encounter will face either Camilo Ugo Carabelli or 32nd seed Sebastian Korda in round three.<\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>: Swiatek\u2019s \u2018worst nightmare\u2019, Eala\u2019s tense win & Kouame\u2019s huge breakthrough: Miami Open roundup<\/a><\/p>\n The post Miami Open: What Joao Fonseca said about Carlos Alcaraz ahead of blockbuster clash<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joao Fonseca is gearing up for the \u201cgreat experience\u201d of facing Carlos Alcaraz as the Brazilian and world No 1 get set to meet for the very first time at the Miami Open. All eyes were on a potential clash between rising star Fonseca and seven-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz when the Miami Open draw […]<\/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-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","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=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n