{"id":521477,"date":"2026-03-13T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/521477\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:39:14","slug":"joao-fonseca-turns-defence-into-attack-to-win-februarys-hot-shot-of-the-month-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/521477\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Fonseca turns defence into attack to win February\u2019s Hot Shot of the Month | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Hot Shot of Month<br \/>\n    Fonseca turns defence into attack to win February\u2019s Hot Shot of the Month<\/p>\n<p>#NextGenATP Brazilian brings Rio crowd to its feet<\/p>\n<p>March 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hsotm-winner-16x9.jpg\" alt=\"Joao Fonseca wins February's Hot Shot of the Month presented by Yokohama award for his dogged defence in Rio de Janeiro. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Joao Fonseca wins February&#8217;s Hot Shot of the Month presented by Yokohama award for his dogged defence in Rio de Janeiro.<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> has already made a habit of electrifying his home crowd, and with one fearless display of defence, he has earned February\u2019s Hot Shot of the Month presented by Yokohama award.<\/p>\n<p>During an all-Brazilian clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/thiago-monteiro\/mj08\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thiago Monteiro<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/rio-de-janeiro\/6932\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Open presented by Claro<\/a>, Fonseca looked down and out in a bruising rally. Yet the 19-year-old produced a series of dogged defensive shots to stay alive before unloading a blistering winner that brought the Rio crowd on its feet.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacular turnaround captured the fighting spirit that has quickly made Fonseca, the No. 35 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, a fan favourite on Tour, with the home supporters roaring their approval after the teenager turned defence into attack in stunning fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseca, the 2024 Next Gen ATP Finals champion, joined January winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lorenzo-musetti\/m0ej\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> on the honours list for this year\u2019s fan-voted award. Stay tuned to see what March has in store for the ATP Tour\u2019s next round of jaw-dropping hot shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot Shot of Month Fonseca turns defence into attack to win February\u2019s Hot Shot of the Month #NextGenATP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-521477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521477","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=521477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}