Double victory 6-4 for Joao Fonseca in the round of 16. The national tennis player will now travel to Santiago to play the Chile Open.
Christian Garin (88th) was the new victim of the Brazilian phenomenon, Joao Fonseca (655th). The 17-year-old tennis player is having a dream week in Rio de Janeiro and this evening he sealed his qualification for the quarter-finals after beating the Chilean by a double 4-6.
The northerner showed great tennis, finding good shots and a lot of mobility, but he could not neutralize the young Brazilian promise, former junior world number one and US Open junior champion in 2023. Fonseca , aided by a very aggressive game, left him It is clear that he will set the standard in tennis for the next few years. Actually, He had just eliminated the French Arthur Fils (36th), finalist of the Next Gen ATP Finals last year.
Present that he had unleashed the participants of the Rio Open, who filled the Gustavo Kuerten court to support their new big star. Faced with this unfavorable scenario, Gago struggled, but paid dearly for his mistakes.
In the first round, he extended the actions until the tenth game, where the third break he suffered ended up sealing the partial in favor of Fonseca. A painful 4-6, but justified mainly by Garin’s limited ability to realize his advantages and the lack of effectiveness of his serve.
The worst part was that the result of the first set was repeated in the second set. Garin serving again in the tenth match. Another break which made him lose the set 4-6. The power of the young Brazilian did not allow him to dominate in the final moments and ended up costing him the victory. With this, Fonseca becomes the youngest player, since Alexander Zverev at Hamburg 2014, to qualify for the quarter-finals of an ATP tournament.
Garin will now travel to Santiago to play the Chile Open, a tournament he won in 2021 and which will bring together the region’s great tennis players next week in San Carlos de Apoquindo. In this edition he does not defend points, so it appears as a great opportunity to climb the ATP rankings. She currently occupies 82nd place in the world, still very far from the 17th place she reached two years ago.
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