{"id":159363,"date":"2025-09-15T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159363\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:54:06","slug":"novak-djokovic-watches-joao-fonsecas-thrilling-davis-cup-win-against-stefanos-tsitsipas-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159363\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic watches Joao Fonseca&#8217;s thrilling Davis Cup win against Stefanos Tsitsipas | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ATP Tour<br \/>\n    Djokovic watches Fonseca&#8217;s thrilling Davis Cup win against Tsitsipas<\/p>\n<p>Brazil defeated Greece in Athens<\/p>\n<p>September 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/djokovic-fonseca-davis-cup-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic was in attendance for the Davis Cup tie between Brazil, led by Joao Fonseca, and Greece on Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Studio Kominis\\Nikolas Kominis<\/p>\n<p>        Novak Djokovic was in attendance for the Davis Cup tie between Brazil, led by Joao Fonseca, and Greece on Sunday.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>It is not every day the record-holder for weeks at No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings is in the stands for a match, but that is exactly what happened Sunday in Athens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> was in attendance with his son, Stefan, for the Davis Cup tie between home side Greece and Brazil. The 100-time tour-level titlist watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/joao-fonseca\/f0fv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Fonseca<\/a> seal Brazil&#8217;s victory against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/te51\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas led Fonseca 5-3 in the deciding set and had an opportunity to serve for the match, which would have led to a deciding fifth rubber. Instead, #NextGenATP star Fonseca won the final four games of the match for a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 victory against the former World No. 3.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757973246_560_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the pair&#8217;s first <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/atp-head-2-head\/stefanos-tsitsipas-vs-joao-fonseca\/te51\/f0fv\" target=\"_blank\">Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting<\/a>. Fonseca had already defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/stefanos-sakellaridis\/s0kt\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanos Sakellaridis<\/a> 7-5, 6-3 to begin the tie, and Tsitsipas had eased past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/thiago-seyboth-wild\/sx91\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thiago Seyboth Wild<\/a> 6-2, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-matos\/mo41\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Matos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/marcelo-melo\/m919\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcelo Melo<\/a> put Fonseca in position to close out the tie with a 6-2, 6-2 victory against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/aristotelis-thanos\/t0ei\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aristotelis Thanos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/petros-tsitsipas\/tg77\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Petros Tsitsipas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about all of the week&#8217;s Davis Cup action, including <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/czechia-united-states-davis-cup-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Czechia&#8217;s memorable triumph against the United States<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/davis-cup-2025-sunday-qualifiers-2nd-round\" target=\"_blank\">Spain&#8217;s comeback against Denmark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Djokovic watches Fonseca&#8217;s thrilling Davis Cup win against Tsitsipas Brazil defeated Greece in Athens September 15,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-159363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}