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Nations League tips World number 145 Fonseca is the lowest-rated finalist in the history of the youth final tournament
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Joao Fonseca beat Luka Van Asscha in the semi-finals of the Next Gen ATP Finals. The match lasted 1 hour and ended with the score 4:2, 4:2, 4:1.
18-year-old Fonseca is the 145th racket in the world, 20-year-old Van Assche is 128th.
Fonseca is the first South American in the final of the youth final tournament. He is also the lowest-ranked finalist in the history of the tournament.
Only 2019 champion Jannik Sinner was younger than Fonseca at the time of reaching the final youth final. Fonseca was 18 years and 3 months old, and Sinner was 18 years and 2 months old.
Now the Brazilian will compete for the title with Lerner Tien, whom he beat in the group (4:0, 4:0, 1:4, 4:2). Before this tournament, they met only at the junior level: Thien won in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros 2023, and Fonseca won in the final via contact nations league of the US Open 2023.
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