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Fonseca is sincere: "I can no longer have a young boy's mentality"

Carlos Navarro | 11 Feb 2026 | 16.23
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Joao Fonseca's greatest challenge, in his own words.
Joao Fonseca's greatest challenge, in his own words.

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Joao Fonseca will face from today a unique circumstance in his -still- short professional career: the pressure of defending a title. Winning the crown in Buenos Aires last year unleashed a 'Fonsecamania' with which he still tries to coexist every day, as he pointed out in a chat with Seba Torok at LA NACION. There, the carioca confessed that "physical work" and dealing with the entire bubble created around him have been his biggest challenges since landing on the circuit, leaving a headline that speaks very clearly of the unexpected and media-driven nature of his emergence: "I know I'm still young, but I can't have the mindset of a young boy anymore". Today, facing Tabilo, his first challenge in his comeback.

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