{"id":387032,"date":"2026-01-04T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:54:11","slug":"joao-fonseca-withdraws-from-brisbane-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387032\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Fonseca withdraws from Brisbane | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Player News<br \/>\n    Fonseca withdraws from Brisbane<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian forced out by injury<\/p>\n<p>January 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fonseca-brisbane-2026-withdrawal-image.jpg\" alt=\"Joao Fonseca trained in Brisbane ahead of the tournament.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia<\/p>\n<p>        Joao Fonseca trained in Brisbane ahead of the tournament.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/joao-fonseca\/f0fv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Fonseca<\/a>&#8216;s start to the 2026 ATP Tour season has been delayed by a lower back injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian withdrew Sunday from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/brisbane\/339\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane International presented by ANZ<\/a> and will be replaced by a lucky loser.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old former Next Gen ATP Finals champion is at a career-high No. 24 in the PIF ATP Rankings. This time last year, he won the ATP Challenger in Canberra before winning through qualifying at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> and upsetting then-World No. 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/andrey-rublev\/re44\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Rublev<\/a> to reach the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseca is next scheduled to compete at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/adelaide\/8998\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide International<\/a>, which begins 12 January.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Fonseca withdraws from Brisbane Brazilian forced out by injury January 04, 2026 Tennis Australia Joao Fonseca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-387032","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\/387032","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=387032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}