Has Fonseca diesel been launched?

The Brazilian has trouble getting tournaments started, but once he starts winning he can quickly become impossible to beat.

Still tight in his first round our friend Fonseca, but at the same time the expectations are insane, and this time I didn’t think it was a bad Fonseca at all, more a good Monteiro instead! A tight first set and then the release, this match is great for the Brazilian and now he can build on it! His ball-striking quality is still absolutely monstrous and he’s getting stronger in every area; when he manages to find a bit of rhythm he’s in the zone, especially with that crazy crowd pushing hard behind him! His second match looks manageable on paper against the Peruvian Buse, who once again dug himself out of a badly started match thanks to his mentality.

Against the local Marcondes, he got grabbed by the throat, the guy on the other side was playing like steel and there wasn’t much he could do, so he just hung in there until the Brazilian cracked and gifted him the match. Huge luck in the key moments but an enormous mental victory, that was already the case in the first round in Buenos. He’s got real qualities and if Fonseca goes into ball-spraying mode there’s definitely a shot for him.