#Joao Fonseca

[songganna]

Baby Fonseca with Nadal 🥹

[dear-science]

Favorite tennis pics lately 🎾

[hansjensen]

Coco Gauff and João Fonseca

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Lyon (Décines-Charpieu) Ch QF: Joao Fonseca [7] def. Martin Landaluce 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(9) Match Stats

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J. Fonseca might have had a dip in the second set, but he steadily regained his rhythm again from his aggression, most of which was driven by his forehands that also brought him his first-set dominance. M. Landaluce also had fair chances, including some match points in between, but the former's backhand down-the-line winner showed the importance of returning in the tie-breaker, which helped him converting 25% of his 12 break points in this match.

Furthermore, both players had different service game strengths throughout the match. J. Fonseca might have scored 16 aces than M. Landaluce's 11, but his first serve winning percentage faded 2% below the Spaniard with the latter winning 77% of his first serve points as he nailed the pressing moments midway and almost near the end of the match. However, the second set turned out to make the difference as M. Landaluce's 5 double faults faded his second serve winning percentage to 47%, 8% behind the Brazilian.

J. Fonseca eventually lost to Calvin Hemery 6-7(5), 4-6 in the semifinals, where he will face an in-form sixth seed in Raphael Collignon, who knocked out Gregoire Barrere 7-6(4), 6-1 later in the same round. This match could be interesting as it tests their point construction and their pacing, but who knows what can happen from that point on!

[fifteenloove]

I had to stop watching João after the bagel and I come back to a loss🫡

[luckofmylife]

mariano that was brilliant 👑

the kid has a bright future ahead tho

[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…

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Joao Fonseca vs Li Tu | F Lexington • Highlights

[songganna]

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

[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

[hansjensen]

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

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The third set became an entirely different affair as both players tried to keep their current level until it ended up being decided in a tie-breaker. Although J. Fonseca had to face several break points early on before he held the said service game, he also was 2 points ahead after M. Landaluce's forehand errors before the latter started minimizing the gap through a backhand down-the-line winner, holding his serves to 3-3 at the end even though the Brazilian seventh seed had his fair chances, including a forehand pass to the Spaniard's forehand error for his break point.

Several games later, J. Fonseca scored a second-point equalizer from his cross-court backhand winner, but even the chance of the break for the match did not happen as M. Landaluce scored a massive hold to 5-5. As a result, the tie-breaker became inevitable, where an intuitive volley from M. Landaluce secured his service game hold to 1-1 before his forehand errors causing J. Fonseca's crucial mini-break, having match points to 6-4 somewhere.

However, M. Landaluce's backhand winner saved it before a third-shot forehand errors from J. Fonseca also leveled it for the second save to 6-6. Another working volley set up the seventh seed's match point to 7-6 only to be saved with M. Landaluce's smash to 7-7. Another notable save came from J. Fonseca that saved the unseeded Spaniard's match point to 8-8, but he also came up with smashes to create the next match point. Eventually, an extended backhand down-the-line winner set up J. Fonseca's latest match point before he sealed the match with an ace, taking the third set 7-6(9) for a spot in the semifinals.

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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