Henrique Rocha<\/p>\n
A year ago, a Portuguese pretender with big ambitions made his Grand Slam qualifying debut with a win out on Court 13.<\/p>\n
While that victory over lowly ranked Frenchman Robin Bertrand barely turned heads, two further wins served ample notice the now 22-year-old Rocha was one to watch after he sealed a spot in the main draw.<\/p>\n
There he contested and won his first two five-set clashes, including over 19th-seeded Czech Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n
That unlikely push to the third round<\/a>, where he fell to Alexander Bublik, was an understandable season highlight.<\/p>\n Following a title in Brazil in March this year, a final in Chile a week later and a semifinal on home soil in Oeiras last month \u2013 all on clay at ATP Challenger level \u2013 the world No.120 stands poised to press his case for a return to a Grand Slam starting list with Hungary\u2019s Zsombor Piros<\/a> his first assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henrique Rocha A year ago, a Portuguese pretender with big ambitions made his Grand Slam qualifying debut with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-649446","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\/649446","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=649446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}