Fonseca ‘rinses and repeats’ vs. Rinderknech, books Munich QF spot

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Fonseca ‘rinses and repeats’ vs. Rinderknech, books Munich QF spot

Marozsan saves MP to oust Tsitsipas in two-day battle

April 15, 2026

Joao Fonseca maintained his spectacular begin to his BMW Open by Bitpanda profession on Wednesday, when the #NextGenATP Brazilian powered previous Arthur Rinderknech to succeed in the quarter-finals.

Fonseca prevailed 6-3, 6-2 with a high-quality efficiency in Munich, the place he seized management of rallies early to beat Rinderknech for the second time within the area of eight days. Having additionally defeated the Frenchman en path to the quarter-finals on the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, the 19-year-old is now into the final eight at ATP Tour occasions in back-to-back weeks for the primary time.

Fonseca, who will tackle second seed Ben Shelton or Alexander Blockx for a semi-final spot, will hope to keep up the form of ice-cool composure he confirmed at tough moments in opposition to Rinderknech. The 2-time ATP Tour champion saved all 9 break factors he confronted in Wednesday’s encounter, in keeping with Infosys ATP Stats.

“That was an excellent essential key for at this time,” stated Fonseca, who held serve from 0/40 as soon as in every set. “I used to be fairly targeted on at this time’s match, I knew it was going to be tough. He’s already a fantastic participant, and right here at altitude he can play excellent tennis. Serve and volley, and drop pictures. He’s filled with weapons, so I wanted to be very targeted.

“He made some nice returns at this time. At 3-2, after I was serving, that was an excellent essential recreation to stick with it. I used to be 0/40, after which I made some good serves. For positive these factors have been key for at this time.”

Having reached his sixth ATP Tour quarter-final, and third at ATP 500 degree, Fonseca has risen 5 spots to No. 30 within the PIF ATP Reside Rankings thus far this week.

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Stefanos Tsitsipas and Fabian Marozsan adopted Fonseca and Rinderknech onto Munich’s centre court docket to finish their first-round match, which was suspended at 2-2 within the deciding set on Tuesday night as a result of darkness. It was the World No. 42 Marozsan, who had saved a match level at 5-6, 30/40 within the second set, who in the end prevailed 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4. The 2025 semi-finalist Marozsan will tackle Denis Shapovalov within the second spherical.