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class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>The hype around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/joao-fonseca\">Joao Fonseca<\/a> has been building for many years and now he is getting his chance to prove he can take on the biggest names in the men\u2019s game and challenge for the biggest titles in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Teenager Fonseca has been talked about a rising star of tennis for some time and is believed to have turned down a $1million offer to play college tennis when he was still developing his game.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian opted to walk away from that mega offer to sign up for the growing college tennis scene in America and instead opted to become a full-time professional, with that decision already reaping handsome financial rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he is at a formative stage of his career, Fonseca has already banked $2,932,555 in prize money on the court and he has also signed up for some lucrative sponsorship deals and played in some exhibition events that have boosted his bank balance.<\/p>\n<p>That decision to turn down a mega money offer from college tennis in the USA may have been bold at a time when he didn\u2019t have huge money behind him, but Fonseca backed himself to compete with the top players in the men\u2019s game and it has proved to be a good decision.<\/p>\n<h2>More Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/miami-open-what-joao-fonseca-said-about-carlos-alcaraz-blockbuster-clash\">Miami Open: What Joao Fonseca said about Carlos Alcaraz ahead of blockbuster clash<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/joao-fonseca-top-3-material-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-claim-bard-gilbert\">\u2018Top 3 material\u2019 Joao Fonseca \u2018can jump in the mix with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His win against world No 9 Andrew Rublev at the 2025 Australian Open was evidence of his potential to rise quickly through the ranks and he pushed Jannik Sinner all the way at the Indian Wells Masters earlier this month, as he took confidence from that display heading into the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a tennis player, I can say that when we lose, we kind of feel sad or disappointed sometimes, trying to figure out what I did right, what I did wrong. But of course I\u2019m happy the way that I played,\u201d he said after the Sinner defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor myself, I don\u2019t normally think that I need to be mad at myself when I played well, when I did everything good, and the opponent has the credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just try to figure out what I could do better. Maybe I could serve better in the 6-5 in the tiebreak that I had. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s always an \u201cif\u201d that we, I mean, we can\u2019t change the past, so we need to focus on the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I\u2019m happy the way that I played, like I said, but of course, there are some things to work on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the level, I mean, I can play against them. I can do some great matches. But there is always the little things, the little important things that you need to work every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose little details just super important, like when he played the important points, like how he deal with it. So of course, I still need a lot of experience, but I think the level is still there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can play against them. I mean, of course, there are many more things to improve, but I feel happy the way that I played, because I felt the level was pretty close.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Matches against giants of the game like Sinner are huge learning experiences for a player who is proving he is close to competing with the best in the game, even at this formative stage of his career.<\/p>\n<p>That decision to walk away from a fortune before he was even a professional player could have backfired if Fonseca did not make his mark in the pro ranks quickly, but this young man appears to have the firepower and mentality to become a star for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/jannik-sinner-reveals-humble-kid-joao-fonseca-biggest-qualities-indian-wells-open\">Jannik Sinner reveals \u2018humble kid\u2019 Joao Fonseca\u2019s best qualities after Indian Wells Open clash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Fonseca \u2018turned down $1m offer\u2019 and quickly earned treble that amount Kevin Palmer 20 Mar 2026 7:24 PM Joao Fonseca in 2025 The hype around Joao Fonseca has been building for many years and now he is getting his chance to prove he can take on the biggest names in the men\u2019s game and [&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-1837618","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\/1837618","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=1837618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}