{"id":513065,"date":"2026-05-29T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=513065"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:11:45","slug":"fonseca-shocks-djokovic-in-a-5-set-thriller-in-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fonseca-shocks-djokovic-in-a-5-set-thriller-in-the-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonseca shocks Djokovic in a 5-set thriller in the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Fonseca was trailing 2-0 sets against Novak Djokvocic, but in the end won 3-2 after almost 5 hours in Paris and advanced to the 1\/8 finals of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Nole was considered a hidden favorite for the title after Jannik Sinner was eliminated yesterday from Roland-Garros, but now we will see a new Grand Slam champion after Carlos Alcaraz also can\u2019t win the title because is injured.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DJOKOVIC UPSET BY 19-YEAR-OLD JOAO FONSECA IN NEARLY 5-HOUR MATCH \ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>That. Was. Insane. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CgNIg2WgKr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CgNIg2WgKr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2060435936920371502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Everything was perfect for the Serbian, who won the opening 2 sets, but things went wrong after that as he failed to win any of the next 3 and was eliminated from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set, Djokovic was serving to lead 6-5 and secure at least a tiebreak, but Fonseca broke his serve and after that won the set 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> set when Nole again was serving for a 6-5 lead, but the Brazilian broke his serve and after that, with 3 aces in a row, secured the set and the victory in the match, as that, without a doubt, is the biggest triumph for Fonseca in his career so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GAME, SET AND MATCH: FONSECA \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FnHoYmPkNL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FnHoYmPkNL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/2060435808998260910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Fonseca was trailing 2-0 sets against Novak Djokvocic, but in the end won 3-2 after almost 5 hours in Paris and advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":513066,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27122,16740],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[27123,17855],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Brazilian eliminated Nole from the Roland-Garros.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513068,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513065\/revisions\/513068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513065"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=513065"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=513065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}