{"id":469880,"date":"2026-06-01T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469880\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T00:09:10","slug":"fonseca-reels-in-ruud-for-first-major-qf-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469880\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonseca reels in Ruud for first major QF &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future is now for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/48336-j.fonseca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joao Fonseca<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just over 48 hours after coming from two sets down to top Novak Djokovic in a five-hour, instant classic, the question was obvious: How would the 19-year-old sensation bounce back from a historic win when he took to Court Philippe-Chatrier against two-time Roland-Garros finalist Casper Ruud?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is: sensationally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With three-time Roland-Garros champion and countryman Gustavo Kuerten watching on, Fonseca surged into his first-ever Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 7-5, 7-6(8), 5-7, 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The two men had both entered the match battle-tested. In addition to his five-set win over Djokovic, Fonseca also came from two sets down to win his third round against Croatia&#8217;s Dino Prizmic. <\/p>\n<p>Ruud, meanwhile, also played a pair of five-setters in his first three rounds, against Roman Safiullin in the first round and Tommy Paul in the third, saving match points to beat the American.<\/p>\n<p>And nearly four hours, the two men wore each other out in another barnburner &#8211; but it was Fonseca and his fearsome forehand that claimed a second straight win over a player ranked above him.<\/p>\n<p>The victory makes him the youngest of the five Brazilian men to ever reach the Roland-Garros quarterfinals in the Open era, and the first since his hero Kuerten in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future is now for Joao Fonseca.\u00a0 Just over 48 hours after coming from two sets down to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-469880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}