{"id":261970,"date":"2025-10-31T02:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261970\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:32:12","slug":"karen-khachanov-has-noticed-a-big-change-in-joao-fonseca-after-beating-him-at-the-paris-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261970\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Khachanov has noticed a big change in Joao Fonseca after beating him at the Paris Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karen Khachanov proved to be just too much for Joao Fonseca as he knocked him out of the Paris Masters.<\/p>\n

Khachanov won the Paris Masters in 2018<\/a>, but faced a tough second round match against the in-form Fonseca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fonseca won the Swiss Indoors title<\/a> last week, but his winning streak came to an end after being beaten by Khachanov<\/a>, 6-1 1-6 6-3.<\/p>\n

Before the tournament even got underway, Khachanov spoke about the changes he had seen in the Paris Masters<\/a> this year, and now he has done the same for Fonseca after playing a match against him for the first time.<\/p>\n

\"JoaoPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesKaren Khachanov says what he has noticed is different about Joao Fonseca after beating him<\/p>\n

Khachanov had never played Fonseca in an official ATP<\/a> match before, but in an interview with BB Tennis he revealed that he practiced with the teenager ahead of his Australian Open<\/a> semifinal in 2023.<\/p>\n

When reflecting on his victory over Fonseca, Khachanov praised the Brazilian\u2019s level and game style, and also spoke about how much he has changed both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe already has great potential, many people were looking for it,\u201d said Khachanov. \u201cBut again, it seems to me that it\u2019s not just a matter of potential, but the fact that he\u2019s already a current player, a dangerous player who wins tournaments, who\u2019s ranked, I don\u2019t know, 24th (28) in the world, so he\u2019s dangerous in general, probably because of his aggressive style of play. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis first serve is very strong and accurate, he plays such attacking tennis, that\u2019s why immediately got a large fan base. He\u2019s young, plus from Brazil, after [Gustavo] Kuerten they really didn\u2019t have this kind of player. I remember we were with him before the semifinal of the Australian Open in 2023, he was a junior then and we trained with him the day before. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut of course this happened two years ago, a lot has changed. He has already matured, grown up and gained a lot of muscle, so there is nothing more to add. We had never played our first official match like this before, so I think it turned out to be very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boris Becker gives his verdict on Joao Fonseca\u2019s level after watching him at the Paris Masters<\/p>\n

Many big predictions have been made about Fonseca this year<\/a>, having risen from outside the top 140 to inside the top 30 within the space of 10 months.<\/p>\n

However, there are still some weaknesses that have been pointed out in Fonseca\u2019s game<\/a> that he can still improve on.<\/p>\n

That is not something that six-time Grand Slam champion Becker<\/a> was focussing on, and he could only praise Fonseca for his performance against Khachanov, despite losing the match.<\/p>\n

Becker wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), \u201cWatching #fonseca in paris @RolexPMasters \u2026 it\u2019s something else!\u201d<\/p>\n

Fonseca now exits the Paris Masters, with just one more tournament on his schedule for the remainder of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

That is the ATP 250 event in Athens, where 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic<\/a> will be the top seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Karen Khachanov proved to be just too much for Joao Fonseca as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,12551,2465,127103,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-261970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-joao-fonseca","10":"tag-karen-khachanov","11":"tag-paris-masters","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261970","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=261970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}