Heaving support from the Brazilian faithful in such close confines at such a pivotal moment was tantamount to an extra spring in the step and Fonseca took complete control in the final two sets, winning 73 per cent and 81 per cent of first-serve points respectively to Prizmic\u2019s 55 per cent and 38 per cent.<\/p>\n
There was never a need to serve it out. A love break on a tracer forehand deep into the corner was the exclamation mark on their first encounter, a three-hour, 30-minute harbinger of a rivalry for the future \u2013 two names undaunted by the prospect of taking it to the greats.<\/p>\n
Still, he saw one key difference between his ilk and the likes of his next opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes it’s not only about the technique, or the powerful shots, or the consistency, but it’s also about the good maturity \u2026 I think I’m just going to enjoy it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, being in Roland-Garros, third round, for me it’s just a dream. I’m going to enjoy every moment playing against an idol, the GOAT of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heaving support from the Brazilian faithful in such close confines at such a pivotal moment was tantamount to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-698906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}