Back-to-back classics<\/p>\n
With three-time Roland-Garros champion and countryman Gustavo Kuerten watching on, Fonseca surged into his first-ever Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 7-5, 7-6(8), 5-7, 6-2 scoreline – the type of victory that adds an extra dimension to the lore around a “remember when?” match win, just like Fonseca’s triumph over Djokovic. Because sometimes, a big win is written in the stars. Backing it up, like Fonseca did against Ruud, is the hard part.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two men had both entered the match battle-tested. In addition to his five-set success over Djokovic, Fonseca also came from two sets down to survive in the third round against Croatia’s Dino Prizmic. <\/p>\n
Ruud, meanwhile, also played a pair of five-setters in his first three rounds, against Roman Safiullin to begin his tournament and against Tommy Paul in the third, saving match points to beat the American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back-to-back classics With three-time Roland-Garros champion and countryman Gustavo Kuerten watching on, Fonseca surged into his first-ever Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-676980","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\/676980","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=676980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}