#Joao Fonseca

[songganna]

João Fonseca first davis cup win!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[dear-science]

Favorite tennis pics lately 🎾

[stateofsport211]

Lexington Ch F: Joao Fonseca [6] def. Li Tu [7] Match Stats

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It was a demolition from J. Fonseca, who controlled this match through his forehand side. Finding the lines and daring to go cross-court, he even did not hesitate to move forward when necessary, defending his position like wheels while L. Tu ran out of answers midway despite his fair chances. As a result, the Brazilian converted 60% of his 5 break points compared to L. Tu's non-conversion of his sole break point in the second set that happened due to the former's forehand error, signifying that the flow was in J. Fonseca's hands.

J. Fonseca's masterclass was also reflected through his service games. Scoring 7 aces than L. Tu's 2, the Brazilian seventh seed had an exceptional first serve winning percentage with 85% compared to the latter's 71%, one of the aspects the former controlled the game from. However, L. Tu's second serves became more vulnerable as he double-faulted 5 times, fading his second serve winning percentage 19% below J. Fonseca, which did not help him get away from the troubles.

This finally marked J. Fonseca's maiden Challenger-level title, putting himself to 166 in the ranks upon the conclusion of the tournament, thus bringing August Holmgren to 167 as the latter won his title earlier in the Porto Challenger. Somehow, L. Tu's next event would be the Lincoln Challenger, where he will face qualifier Ryuki Matsuda in the first round, as J. Fonseca will partake in the Cary Challenger in the week after. It is just the beginning for an on-the-rise J. Fonseca.

[luckofmylife]

mariano that was brilliant 👑

the kid has a bright future ahead tho

[hansjensen]

Coco Gauff and João Fonseca

[a2zsportsnews]

Challenger Q3: Joao Fonseca’s first title marks milestone breakthrough | ATP Tour

Challenger Challenger Q3: Fonseca’s first title marks milestone breakthrough Dzumhur leads Challenger season with five titles September 09, 2024 Rena Behar Joao Fonseca is the youngest ATP Challenger Tour champion of 2024. By ATP Staff For players with aspirations of competing on the biggest stages on the ATP Tour and in Grand Slam tournaments, it all begins on the ATP Challenger Tour. Such was…

[alfredol70]

Joao Fonseca vs Li Tu | F Lexington • Highlights

[vadergf]

Who do you like/support in all the sports you watch

In men's tennis, I support Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. I also love Federer and Nadal. Casually I support Jack Draper, Casper Ruud, Joao Fonseca, Zhizhen Zhang (don't really watch them but I'm rooting for them)

Women's tennis, I like Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka. Casually I support Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Qinwen Zheng etc

F1 I'm a fan of Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri (though I hate mclaren) and Franco Colapinto. Excited for Ollie Bearman and Kimi Antonelli next year. BIG BIG sebastian vettel fan. Also like nico rosberg, jenson button and mark webber

Cricket obviously the Indian cricket team but in IPL I'm a long suffering RCB fan.

Random athletes I also like: Suni Lee, Mondo Duplantis, Simone Biles, Stephen Nederosick etc

[shapovalovvs]

the italian commentators keep comparing joao fonseca to young jannik sinner which, sweet, but also. leave the kiddo aloneee

[isadomna]

Juana of Portugal (1439-1475)

She was the posthumous daughter of King Duarte of Portugal and his wife Leonor of Aragon. Juana grew up in exile with her mother, due to the intrigues of the Portuguese court, and lived first at the Monastery of Santa María in Medina del Campo and later in Toledo, where Leonor of Aragon died. At the age of six, Juana returned to the Portuguese court of her brother Afonso V.

In 1455 the young Juana married her cousin Enrique IV of Castile, who had repudiated his first consort after thirteen years of marriage. The couple produced no children. The marriage was annulled on the grounds of an impotence that was specific rather than general, an impotence that applied only to Enrique’s relationship with Blanca of Navarre. Yet such an extraordinary  explanation amounted to a case of maleficium (spell), with the clear implication that Blanca was the guilty party, and in addition she was obliged to leave Castile and return to Navarre.

Juana of Portugal was described as beautiful, cheerful and coquettish. The sources speak of the licentiousness introduced by the young Queen and her ladies in the austere Castilian court. They liked to use perfums, makeups, dresses that displayed too much décolletage, and flirting with men. One of her ladies, Guiomar de Castro, was King’s mistress, causing the anger of the Queen, and other, Mencía de Lemos, was Cardinal Mendoza’s mistress. 

Six years after her wedding, Queen Juana was pregnant. Some say it was a miracle, others that it was the result of some sort of artificial insemination that the couple had tried, as was recorded by a german traveler. During this period, Juana insisted that Enrique's teenaged brother and sister, Alfonso and Isabel, forcefully be brought to the court and away from their sick mother. Many saw this as a way of making sure her daughter's path to the crown would encounter no obstacles. The Queen gave birth to a daughter named Juana, officially proclaimed heir to the Crown of Castile and created Princess of Asturias.

Queen Juana planned the marriage between her sister-in-law, Isabel of Castile, and her brother Afonso V of Portugal, and her daughter with her nephew Prince Joao. She wanted with these weddings an annexation of the Crown of Castile with the kingdom of Portugal.

In early 1460s, Castilian nobles became dissatisfied with the rule of Enrique IV, and believed that Princess Juana was not King’s daughter. They called her la Beltraneja, a mocking reference to her supposed illegitimacy. Propaganda and rumour encouraged by the league of rebellious nobles argued that her father was Beltrán de la Cueva, a royal favorite of low background who had been elevated to enormous power by Enrique and who, by some, has been suggested as Enrique's lover.

Many nobles refused to recognise Princess Juana and preferred that Enrique instead name his younger half-brother, Alfonso as his heir. This was agreed to on the condition that Alfonso marries little Juana. Not long after this, Enrique reneged on his promise and began to support his daughter's claim once more. The nobles in league against him conducted a ceremonial deposition-in-effigy of Enrique outside the city of Avila and crowned Alfonso as a rival king. 

Queen Juana and her daughter were removed from the court. They lived in various castles as hostages, separately or together, protected by a faction of the nobility. The love affair of Queen Juana with the Bishop Fonseca’s nephew, Pedro of Castile, and the birth of her two illegitimate sons, caused great scandal. As a result of the need to conceal the pregnancy of her illegitimate sons, Juana of Portugal is considered the inventor of the farthingale.

In 1468, Alfonso of Castile died and Princess Juana was stripped of her succession-rights. Her aunt, Infanta Isabel, was placed before her, on condition that Isabel marry a man chosen out by the monarch. Queen Juana and her daughter sent a formal appeal to the Supreme Pontiff. Enrique accepted to divorce his wife and send her to Portugal, but Juana remained in Castile as king's wife, though separated of her husband. Isabel married Fernando of Aragon with the opposition of Enrique IV.

In 1470, Princess Juana was engaged and then married by proxy to the Duke of Guienne, brother of Louis XI of France. In the face of the French ambassador, King Enrique and Queen Juana swore before a crucifix that the Princess was their legitimate daughter. The French marriage never consummated, because the duke died two years later in France. Queen Juana always defended her daughter’s rights to the throne, and she had an active political participation. Queen Juana tried to get the support of nobles and cities, but with meager success and without palpable results. In 1474, Enrique IV died at the Alcázar of Madrid and rumors circulated that the late monarch had been poisoned, his wife and his daughter demanded an investigation. Queen Juana died a few months after her husband’s death at the age of 36. In the last months of her life, she lived at the convent of San Francisco in Madrid. The cause of her death is unknown.

Bárbara Lennie played Juana of Portugal in TV series "Isabel"

[martystlouis]

should i spend 250 reais on a tennis ticket to see alcaraz and joao fonseca. should i

[stateofsport211]

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L. Tu had some chances and tried to step up in the second set, but J. Fonseca's aggressive play looked too much for the Australian seventh seed trying to do something significant. After 4 consecutive holds, L. Tu found his game points being foiled, one of them thanks to J. Fonseca's timely backhand down-the-line winner to force the deuce. Ultimately, his deep return to another L. Tu's forehand error secured his break to 3-2.

In the next game, J. Fonseca faced a break point as his game point was fumbled due to a +1 error, followed by a forehand mishit that went too long. However, the Brazilian sixth seed came in a clutch and volleyed in time to secure that massive hold to 4-2. He had not looked back since, setting his 2-point lead with another forehand winner before his unreturned serve allowed him to take the second set 6-4, winning his maiden Challenger-level title as a result.

[isacopraxolu]

Atp Bucarest, Sonego ko al primo turno #atpbucarest #tfnews #16aprile #tfsport

[hansjensen]

omg JOÃO FONSECA??? US OPEN JUNIOR BOYS SINGLES CHAMP!!!!