{"id":535437,"date":"2026-03-12T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:40:11","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-were-going-to-see-more-fonseca-in-the-future-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535437\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz: ‘We’re going to see more Fonseca in the future’ | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian Wells
\n Alcaraz: ‘We’re going to see more Fonseca in the future’<\/p>\n

Spaniard shares thoughts on Sinner-Fonseca encounter<\/p>\n

March 12, 2026<\/p>\n

\"Carlos<\/p>\n

Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz was full of praise for Joao Fonseca at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n

The tennis world had its eyes on Jannik Sinner<\/a>\u2019s clash with Joao Fonseca<\/a> on Tuesday at the BNP Paribas Open<\/a>, seemingly the opening chapter of a budding rivalry. Even Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, the World No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings, was following the intriguing showdown, which Sinner won 7-6(6), 7-6(4).<\/p>\n

Alcaraz, who was asked about the match after earning a quarter-final spot in California, was full of praise for the rising star Fonseca despite the 19-year-old\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously when someone is going toe to toe with Jannik, that means he had to play great tennis and perform really, really well,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cI couldn’t see the full match, but I saw that Joao is playing great tennis. I\u2019m really happy to see Joao playing these kinds of matches, at this kind of level.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Alcaraz holds a 10-6 lead against Sinner in their rivalry, the Spaniard is yet to have his first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Fonseca. Like Alcaraz and Sinner, Fonseca is a former champion at the Next Gen ATP Finals, which the Brazilian won in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m a player and a person who loves seeing the player growing. As a person, as a player, he’s really young, and for sure he’s going to learn from this experience,\u201d Alcaraz said of Fonseca. \u201cI\u2019m just really happy to see where Joao is right now and for sure we’re going to see more of Joao in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz continued his perfect season on Wednesday, defeating 13th seed Casper Ruud<\/a> to extend his winning streak to 15 matches. Up next for the top seed is 2021 champion Cameron Norrie<\/a>. Alcaraz fell to Norrie at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just really want to take the revenge,\u201d Alcaraz said. \u201cReally difficult one against Cam, I have great battles against him. Lefties are always tricky to play against. The way he can change the height of the ball, he has a really flat backhand and [heavy] top-spin forehand. You can be a little bit confused sometimes with how the ball is going to come to you.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s a gladiator. He’s a real fighter, fighting for every ball, every game, every set.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian Wells Alcaraz: ‘We’re going to see more Fonseca in the future’ Spaniard shares thoughts on Sinner-Fonseca encounter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-535437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}