{"id":162137,"date":"2025-09-17T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:46:07","slug":"joao-fonseca-meets-roger-federer-for-the-first-time-at-laver-cup-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162137\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Fonseca meets Roger Federer for the first time at Laver Cup | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Laver Cup<br \/>\n    Fonseca meets Federer for the first time at Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Action begins Friday in San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>September 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fonseca-federer-laver-cup-2025.jpg\" alt=\"Joao Fonseca and Roger Federer pose for a photo in San Francisco on Tuesday ahead of the start of the Laver Cup.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>        Joao Fonseca and Roger Federer pose for a photo in San Francisco on Tuesday ahead of the start of the Laver Cup.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>It is safe to say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/joao-fonseca\/f0fv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Fonseca<\/a> will never forget 16 September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a>, the #NextGenATP Brazilian star has already experienced a memorable moment. The 19-year-old met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/roger-federer\/f324\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hands are sweating because I\u2019m going to meet Roger,\u201d Fonseca said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOrXOQDkhlu\/\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Milestone Moment \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaverCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LaverCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JaoFonseca?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#JaoFonseca<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@rogerfederer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yAI4fCTy38\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/yAI4fCTy38<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> (@LaverCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaverCup\/status\/1968085832667210045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, the 103-time tour-level titlist arrived to chat with the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/next-gen-atp-finals\/7696\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a> champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally! Nice to meet you, it\u2019s a pleasure,\u201d Federer said. \u201cCongratulations on everything so far, yeah. Well done on a great career so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told me like 10 minutes ago, \u2018You\u2019re going to meet Roger\u2019,\u201d Fonseca told Federer, showing the Swiss his sweaty palms.<\/p>\n<p>The teen will turn his attention to helping Team World record the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> trophy this weekend. The action begins on Friday at Chase Center, home of the NBA\u2019s Golden State Warriors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laver Cup Fonseca meets Federer for the first time at Laver Cup Action begins Friday in San Francisco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-162137","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\/162137","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=162137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}