{"id":170503,"date":"2026-05-29T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170503"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:52:46","slug":"fonseca-stuns-novak-in-roland-garros-r3-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/fonseca-stuns-novak-in-roland-garros-r3-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonseca stuns Novak in Roland Garros R3 battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Brazilian star Joao Fonseca rallied from two sets down to eliminate record 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in five sets on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The third-seeded Serb and three-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Open<\/a> titlist lost after holding a two-set lead 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 5-7. The match lasted four hours and 53 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic won the first two sets over the 19-year-old, and it looked like he would cruise to a victory. However, Fonseca started to claw his way back into the match. He managed to level the contest and forced a decider.<\/p>\n<p>Though Nole at times appeared to be struggling physically between points, he quickly carved out an early 3-1 lead in the fifth set. His rival broke back immediately and converted another chance in the 11th game before serving it out to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-11), double faults (1-1), winners (70-68), unforced errors (39-47), total points won (167-164).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Brazilian star Joao Fonseca rallied from two sets down to eliminate record 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in five sets. The third-seeded Serb and three-time French Open titlist lost 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 5-7. The match lasted four hours and 53 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":170493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101011740,101012141,101013524,1039],"class_list":["post-170503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam","tag-paris","tag-roland-garros-2026-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170509,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170503\/revisions\/170509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}