{"id":40615,"date":"2025-07-05T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40615\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:17:14","slug":"taylor-fritz-wants-to-get-his-thoughts-out-after-experiencing-controversy-involving-joao-fonseca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40615\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz wants to get his ‘thoughts out’ after experiencing controversy involving Joao Fonseca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Taylor Fritz was involved in controversy recently<\/strong> after his match with Joao Fonseca at the Eastbourne International.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kicking off his Eastbourne<\/a> campaign last month, Fritz came face to face with Fonseca, playing the young Brazilian for the first time.<\/p>\n

In a match played over two days, Fritz<\/a> defeated Fonseca 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, booking his place in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

After the match, the American caused quite the stir with his comments on Instagram, reacting to the highlights of his win over Fonseca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"TaylorPhoto by Charlie Crowhurst\/Getty Images for LTA<\/p>\n

\u201cCommenting this before watching points. Betting this is 80 per cent [Joao] Fonseca highlights, maybe one\/two points of me winning,\u201d he said in a now deleted post.<\/p>\n

\u201cUpdate: I was right.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of Brazilian fans took offense to Fritz\u2019s post, as he deleted it shortly after, pleading with them to \u2018just chill\u2019.<\/p>\n

Asked about the controversy following his third-round win at Wimbledon<\/a>, the world number five had plenty to say.<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz says he had Brazilian fans calling him a \u2018cry baby\u2019 for a month after Joao Fonseca controversy<\/p>\n

During his post-match press conference, Fritz shared his thoughts on the \u2018highlight controversy\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to get my thoughts out, because I\u2019ve thought about this a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are naturally going to be more highlights of players that drive more engagement, and that\u2019s normal, that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was, when I said that, it was clearly a joke, people thought I was complaining, I\u2019ve had Brazilians telling me I\u2019m a cry baby for the last month, since I said it basically.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust me, I don\u2019t care about the highlights, it was a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TaylorPhoto by HENRY NICHOLLS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The American proceeded to explain why the highlights often focus on the ATP Tour\u2019s<\/a> biggest names.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, whether it\u2019s ATP, Tennis TV, it\u2019s in the media companies\u2019 interest to be posting the people who are going to drive the most engagement, that makes sense, that\u2019s what they\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d said Fritz.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yes, [Joao] Fonseca has a ton of fans and a ton of followers, and there are other players like that too that are going to be posted more than the other players, but that\u2019s not something that we should be complaining about, because, like I said, that\u2019s the business, they\u2019re trying to drive engagement, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fritz recalled a practice set he played against Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> at the ATP Finals, where the highlights favored the Spanish star.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s happened so many times, I\u2019ve practised with Carlos [Alcaraz] or Jannik [Sinner] or play a match and I look at the highlights\u2026 I think I won a practice set against Carlos at the tour finals, and there were like five Carlos highlights and one of mine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, I won this set, it looked like I was getting destroyed in the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, but like I said, I don\u2019t care, and it makes sense promoting the more popular players.\u201d<\/p>\n

The popularity of Fonseca in particular continues to grow, as the Brazilian youngster makes his presence felt on the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz describes Joao Fonseca as an \u2018incredible player\u2019<\/p>\n

Moving on from the controversy, Fritz was keen to praise the 18-year-old, who may break into the world\u2019s top 50 after Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he was a really good player. I knew he was a really good player. I watched him play in Australia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s an incredible player for 18 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JoaoPhoto by Hannah Peters\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Fritz then looked back on his clash with Fonseca at Eastbourne, where he outlasted the Brazilian in three tight sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was probably the best match I had in Eastbourne, to be fair, it was windy all week. The first two sets we played were the only two sets I played all week, with no wind, good conditions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the level was really good. He fought off a break chance in the second, played a very good breaker to win the second on me. I wish we could actually have finished the match that night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really fun, enjoyable match. It was a good level from both of us, but it was too dark, so both of us agreed to come back the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we came back the next day, it was just a windy mess like the rest of the week, so I can\u2019t tell you too much about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only time will tell who will emerge victorious when the pair meet next on the ATP Tour, but you certainly won\u2019t want to miss it.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz was involved in controversy recently after his match with Joao Fonseca at the Eastbourne International. Kicking…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,32266,62,12335,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-40615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-joao-fonseca","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-taylor-fritz","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114800351481129416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}