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lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Joao Fonseca with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz inset                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Joao Fonseca declared that he has \u201cthe level\u201d to compete with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz after his loss to the former at the 2026 Indian Wells Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Brazilian fell 6-7(6), 6-7(4) to world No 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\">Sinner<\/a> in a pulsating last 16 contest lasting just over two hours at the Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>In his first-ever meeting with Sinner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/joao-fonseca\">Fonseca<\/a> pushed the four-time Grand Slam champion hard and had three set points in the opening set tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>The world No 35 is yet to face Carlos Alcaraz, the world No 1 and a seven-time major winner, in a competitive match.<\/p>\n<p>Following his defeat to Sinner in Indian Wells, Fonseca was asked how his performance against the Italian makes him feel about his ability to challenge the top two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think the level, my level, it\u2019s pretty, like, I mean\u2026 I can play against them (Alcaraz and Sinner). I can do some great matches,\u201d Fonseca said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there is always the little things, the little important things that you need to work every day. I mean, those little details just super important, like when he played the important points, like how he deal with it.<\/p>\n<h2>Indian Wells News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/jannik-sinner-reveals-humble-kid-joao-fonseca-biggest-qualities-indian-wells-open\"><strong>Jannik Sinner reveals \u2018humble kid\u2019 Joao Fonseca\u2019s best qualities after Indian Wells Open clash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-videos\/watch-jannik-sinner-confronts-indian-wells-spectator-umpire-forced-step-in\"><strong>WATCH: Jannik Sinner confronts Indian Wells spectator as umpire forced to step in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo of course a lot of experience, I still need it, but I think the level is still there. Of course far, but I can play against them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, of course, much more things to improve, but I feel happy the way that I played, because I felt the level was pretty close today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fonseca was also asked how the outcome of his first match with Sinner compared to his expectations prior to the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I wanted to win, of course, but like I said, I was happy the way that I played, because I put a lot of pressure,\u201d said the Brazilian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the rallies were good. I was putting pressure the way that I wanted, and yeah, I served well, I tried to do the returns that I could.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he was serving well, as well. So, I mean, I think I kind of managed to \u2014 I mean, my expectations were okay. I was just trying to put what I could in the court and trying to see how it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I saw some opportunities, so I got a little bit more with a little bit of expectations, because you\u2019re playing against ex-top 1 guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut yeah, like I say, the level was there, but the good things that I need to work with a lot of things to reach this level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovic-mocked-handshake-arthur-rinderknech-indian-wells-doubles\">WATCH: Novak Djokovic\u2019s opponent takes dig at him after controversy in Indian Wells doubles loss<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Fonseca sends message to Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz after Indian Wells Open exit Ewan West 11 Mar 2026 5:15 PM Joao Fonseca with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz inset Joao Fonseca declared that he has \u201cthe level\u201d to compete with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz after his loss to the former at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1820710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}