{"id":159711,"date":"2025-09-16T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159711\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:15:07","slug":"elated-joao-fonseca-posts-first-message-since-his-incredible-comeback-win-over-stefanos-tsitsipas-in-the-davis-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159711\/","title":{"rendered":"Elated Joao Fonseca posts first message since his incredible comeback win over Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Davis Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joao Fonseca secured Brazil\u2019s qualification for the 2026 Davis Cup after an incredible comeback win against Greece\u2019s Stefanos Tsitsipas. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsitsipas<\/a> was close to taking his country to a deciding match in Athens when leading the 19-year-old 5-3 in the third set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Joao-Fonseca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fonseca<\/a> fought his way back into the tie, however, securing four games in a row to emerge victorious and give Brazil a 3-1 lead over Greece. <\/p>\n<p>The young star, who clinched his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> title earlier this season at the Argentina Open, took to social media after the victory in high spirits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2216970539-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Joao Fonseca looks on as he plays against France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert during their men's singles match on day 5 of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris.\" class=\"wp-image-114242\" \/>Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT\/AFP via Getty ImagesJoao Fonseca\u2019s reaction on Instagram after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Instagram, Fonseca said: \u201cLet\u2019s go! This is Brazil!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always an honour to be able to represent Brazil and share this mission with so many people I admire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to thank the team for their trust until the end and to everyone who supported, whether here in Greece or at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour positive energy made all the difference. Let\u2019s go for more team,\u201d urged Fonseca. <\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 struggles to return to form continue<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas\u2019 defeat marks yet another loss amid one of his worst seasons on tour to date, and things don\u2019t seem to be improving since reappointing his father, Apostolos Tsitsipas, as his coach. <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old parted ways with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Goran-Ivanisevic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goran Ivanisevic<\/a> after his first-round exit at Wimbledon, with the Croatian revealing he had \u2018never seen such an underprepared player\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>After the split with Ivanisevic, Tsitsipas bowed out in the first and second rounds of the Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open respectively, and lost in round two at the US Open. <\/p>\n<p>His ATP ranking has fallen to as low as 30th this season, having been as high as third in the world in 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joao Fonseca secured Brazil\u2019s qualification for the 2026 Davis Cup after an incredible comeback win against Greece\u2019s Stefanos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[29853,12551,99,14907,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-159711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-davis-cup","9":"tag-joao-fonseca","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159711","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=159711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}