What the score was when Joao Fonseca played Grigor Dimitrov in practice match ahead of Madrid Open

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Joao Fonseca is one of the top emerging stars in the world of professional tennis, and the future looks extremely bright for the youngster.

The Australian Open was the tournament where Fonseca first truly announced his arrival on the ATP Tour, coming through qualifying and then knocking out the number nine seed Andrey Rublev in round one.

Fonseca has made a meteoric rise through the rankings and has gone from a three-figure number to number 59 in the rankings in a matter of months, with some brilliant tennis played along the way.

The 18-year-old won the Argentina Open shortly after his exploits in Melbourne and right now, that remains his only career title on the professional circuit.

Fonseca is yet to get his clay-court season underway, but that will change at the Madrid Open, with the Brazilian enjoying a practice match with Grigor Dimitrov ahead of his opening match against Elmer Moller tomorrow.

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What the score was when Joao Fonseca played Grigor Dimitrov in practice

In a video shared on social media, it was confirmed that Fonseca had played a practice set with Dimitrov ahead of his Madrid Open campaign getting underway.

Clearly, no stone is being left unturned when it comes to Fonseca getting the relevant match practice and he gave Dimitrov the runaround for periods of this session.

Fonseca won the practice set 5-2 against the Bulgarian and that should put him in good stead going into his opening match in Madrid tomorrow.

The pair also played a tie-breaker before finishing their session together and the teenager was victiourous in that as well.

Fonseca will hope to do what Dimitrov couldn’t

Pete Sampras predicted Dimitrov to win a slam, but it never came true, with the experienced player yet to win one of the four major titles.

Dimitrov has been in three Grand Slam finals during his career but never managed to make it through to the final and give himself the chance to lift the prize.

Fonseca could be different, though, partly because he doesn’t live in an era where Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are all in their prime.

The talented teenager is going to be around for many years to come and having already significantly boosted his ranking, the next few years look set to be seriously exciting from his point of view.