The Laver Cup is currently taking centre stage on the tennis calendar, and Joao Fonseca is taking part with Team World.
Andy Roddick praised Fonseca after day one of the competition when he took on Flavio Cobolli, and his win earned a big point for his team.
Team World’s vice captain Pat Rafter also lauded Fonseca for his efforts and it does appear as though the Brazilian is set for tennis stardom.
Fonseca has entered some other events after the Laver Cup and now Roddick has once again made another brilliant claim about something Fonseca does on the court.
Andy Roddick thinks Joao Fonseca is already the third best in the world at one skill
When it comes to discussing tennis at the moment in the modern era, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are constantly the benchmarks.
The pair have shared the last eight Grand Slam titles and they have both become dominant forces on the ATP Tour, with the other players needing to up their standards.
Now, Roddick thinks Fonseca is already the player who is the closest to Alcaraz and Sinner when it comes to one aspect of the sport.
He said on the latest Served podcast: “I thought Fonseca did an amazing job against Cobolli last night. So I talk about, the court isn’t doing much for a flat ball through the middle, it’s not doing much for a chip, it’s not doing much for a kick serve.
“We saw Ruud kind of getting decent looks at second serves, even off of that Opelka kick serve yesterday. If you can create something out of nothing and create pace off of what I call a dead ball, you will have success. Fonseca was unbelievable at that. He can create off of a kind of dead ball, slow ball, kind of create that speed as a mechanism, as maybe anyone in the world not named Carlos or Sinner, right? He was fantastic.”
Fonseca can win a Grand Slam title one day
It’s been a whirlwind year for Fonseca, but given that he’s not even had a full year on the tour yet, the future is extremely bright for the youngster.
Fonseca strikes the ball extremely hard and he’s absolutely up there with the best in the world when it comes to that aspect of the game.
Fonseca is currently at number 42 in the world rankings and for his maiden year on the tour, that does represent a really positive outlook for the Brazilian.
The next step for Fonseca is to pick up more titles and it looks destined that one day the teenager will be lifting one of the game’s biggest prizes.
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