Former finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas has been knocked out of the National Bank Open in Montreal, falling to Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca in the second round.<\/p>\n
Fonseca defeated the Greek No.1 7-6(3), 7-5 on Wednesday to reach the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 event, extending his winning record against Tsitsipas to 2-0.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old was playing his first tour-level match since Wimbledon, where he lost in the third round to Roman Safiullin. He looked set to close out the match comfortably after taking a 5-4 lead in the second set, but dropped serve while serving for the victory.<\/p>\n
Fonseca responded by winning eight of the next nine points to seal the win and become the first Brazilian to reach the third round in Montreal since Gustavo Kuerten.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas, who reached the Montreal final in 2018, has been rebuilding his season after a difficult run of form. The 27-year-old claimed his first title in 16 months at Gstaad last month and had climbed six places to No.47 in the live ATP rankings before the tournament.<\/p>\n
The defeat comes as Tsitsipas continues his return towards the upper levels of the sport after previously reaching No.3 in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas has been knocked out of the National Bank Open in Montreal, falling to Brazilian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-845515","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\/845515","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=845515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}