{"id":778542,"date":"2026-09-22T04:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778542\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:58:15","slug":"atp-joao-fonseca-to-skip-upcoming-asian-swing-to-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778542\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP: Joao Fonseca to skip upcoming Asian swing to recover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazilian Joao Fonseca announced on Monday that he would “skip the Asian swing” in order to recover physically and mentally after a season of injury lows and on-court highs.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old, one of the most promising young talents on the ATP tour, wrote on Instagram: “2026 has been a very challenging year for me. On top of everything the profession demands, a series of injuries ended up taking me out of important tournaments and keeping me from playing the way I would like to.<\/p>\n

“I talked a lot with my team, and we came to the conclusion that the best decision right now is to listen to my body, give my mind and body a break, and skip the Asian swing.”<\/p>\n

After missing the US Open due to abdominal pain, Fonseca<\/a> made his comeback last weekend during Brazil’s 3-1 victory over Switzerland in the Davis Cup.<\/p>\n

He beat Dominic Stricker<\/a> 4-6, 6-3, 6-2<\/a> to get his country off to a winning start in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

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“I made a huge effort to return and represent Brazil in the Davis Cup, but I still need more time,” the world number 28 added.<\/p>\n

“I know that’s just part of an athlete’s life, but even so, it’s still frustrating.”<\/p>\n

Fonseca will miss the ATP 500 event in Tokyo, which will run from September 30th to October 6th, and the Shanghai Masters over the following fortnight.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the South American suffered recurring back problems which led to his elimination in the first round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Despite these issues, Fonseca has had some standout moments this season, such as his victory over Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the third round of the French Open on his way to a debut quarter-final appearance at a Grand Slam. He also reached the third round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilian Joao Fonseca announced on Monday that he would “skip the Asian swing” in order to recover physically…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778542","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\/778542","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=778542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}