RUUD 5-7 6-6 FONSECA<\/p>\n
Ruud makes a mess of a drop shot that floats into the net at 30-0 and then piques Joao\u2019s interest with a shanked backhand.<\/p>\n
The 15th seed has a routine plus-one forehand to steady the ship but blasts wide to offer up set point.<\/p>\n
Fonseca lands a deep return and takes charge of the rally, but he opts for a tricky dropper from deep that lands just wide.<\/p>\n
The tension mounts around deuce and Ruud blows game point before facing up to another set point when Joao unloads on a backhand down the line. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The teenager celebrates with a big roar, but his thunderbolt forehand actually flies long.<\/p>\n
The level of tennis is a joy to behold given the high stakes, with another lengthy 10-minute game eventually going the way of Casper via an ace and a clutch first serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUUD 5-7 6-6 FONSECA Ruud makes a mess of a drop shot that floats into the net at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}