{"id":96315,"date":"2026-04-09T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=96315"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:02:03","slug":"fonseca-surges-into-qfs-on-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/fonseca-surges-into-qfs-on-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Read &#038; Watch: Fonseca Surges Into QFs On Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian teen Joao Fonseca has become the youngest Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters quarter-finalist in more than 20 years after winning a forehand battle with Matteo Berrettini, 10 years his senior, on Court des Princes Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old claimed four service breaks and dropped just three points on his first serve in a 6-3, 6-2 victory to advance to his first quarter-final at ATP Masters 1000 level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s super special. I\u2019ve been looking for this result for a long time,\u201d Fonseca said. \u201cI put on a lot of pressure by playing huge return games and great Serve +1 on my serve as well. Doing that helped me to stay calm during the match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kB_-J1AS-2M?si=mgKvA2CeZyGsMP4r\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fonseca is the youngest quarter-finalist in the Principality since 18-year-olds Rafael Nadal and Richard Gasquet in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>As both players uncorked on their serves and forehands, there was little separating them in the match until Fonseca literally put Berrettini on the back foot in the eighth game. Backpedalling at the net, the Italian netted an awkward lob and then on break point down, he netted an overly aggressive forehand moving backwards deep and wide behind the baseline to drop serve. Fonseca then served out the set to love.<\/p>\n<p>The decisive moment of the second set came in the fifth game. Berrettini had just broken back for 2-all but was staring down a break point. Fonseca\u2019s routine crosscourt forehand volley clipped the net, giving Berrettini plenty of time to set up a midcourt pass into an open court, but the Italian pushed it wide as the Brazilian hustled to his left to entice the 29-year-old into overplaying his forehand.<\/p>\n<p>Berrettini, who dismissed Daniil Medvedev 6-0, 6-0 in the second round, remains at No. 90 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, far below his career-high of No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseca, who is the first Brazilian Masters 1000 quarter-finalist since Thomaz Bellucci in Madrid in 2011, will next meet third-seeded German Alexander Zverev, who defeated Belgian Zizou Bergs 6-2, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev was broken to love when he first tried to serve out the match, but responded by breaking Bergs and then firing two aces in the final game.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev leads all players for most ATP Masters 1000 wins this decade with 108. He has now reached the quarter-finals of seven of his past eight Masters 1000 events.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkXvoHXTQLY?si=mOnin40mHtOo0mdY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday it was a better match from my side,\u201d said Zverev, who had to rally from 2-5 in his opener to defeat Cristian Garin. \u201cStill not perfect and I would say it&#8217;s still far from the level I played in the US, but this is the first tournament on clay, so I feel like nobody&#8217;s gonna play perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d never played or even practised with him before this week. So getting the chance to practise with him for the first time allowed me to know what to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian is youngest quarter-finalist in 21 years <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Read &amp; Watch: Fonseca Surges Into QFs On Debut - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joao Fonseca breaks Matteo Berrettini four titmes to charge into the quarter-finals on debut in Monaco.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/fonseca-surges-into-qfs-on-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Read &amp; 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