I know someone who's not going to be happy...

This match was destined to end in the night session, much to Djokovic's delight, but for some reason, it is scheduled for around 3:30 pm, which will not please Djoko.

Fonseca is back. He admitted it himself after his win over Prizmic: he’s doubting his tennis a bit at the moment, because he’s getting few positive results. But this comeback against a particularly in-form player will help him regain confidence and believe in his tennis again. In the end, it’s a 3h30 match, which isn’t extremely long for a best-of-five. To give you an idea, Djokovic played longer in his four-set win over Royer.

It took him a bit of time to find his tennis in his win over Prizmic, especially to find his bearings on the return, which is quite important to point out before facing Djoko, who is an excellent server with perfect spots. If Fonseca doesn’t quickly find his rhythm, I’m a bit afraid he’ll struggle on return.

The Serb played a solid match and could have wrapped it up in three sets, but he gave himself a bit of a scare, and we also have to give credit to Royer, who fought hard and went out and earned his set. Still, I find we’re seeing more and more lapses from Djoko, who was once the ultimate killer, a player who gave you absolutely no room to believe. I get the feeling that more and more players are managing to believe against him.

There’s a new factor to take into account in this match: Sinner’s defeat, which gives Djokovic N. an extra bit of hope of going after a Grand Slam. I don’t know if he’ll be even more motivated than usual, but I feel like he was already very motivated beforehand and is just a bit less strong, quite simply. In the end, it won’t change anything for me.

This will be the first meeting between Fonseca and Djokovic N., and I think Royer gave us a few clues about what to expect. Fonseca is a player who likes to fight and play aggressive tennis to go and challenge his opponent. We saw that this caused a few problems for Djokovic N., and there’s still this stifling heat that works against the Serb. In the end, he still has a huge advantage in a Grand Slam against Fonseca, but I’m not sure his margin is all that big.