Brazil's Fonseca takes home title at MGM Slam

Key Highlights

• Sunday, all three Americans were at T-Mobile Arena to sharpen their games and try and take some loot home with them en route to California. The USA trio were joined by Norway’s Casper Ruud, Brazil’s Joao Fonseca, Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan and veterans Gael Monfis of France and Australia’s Nick Kyrgios. Opelka, the 28-year-old from Florida, met Fonseca in the best-of-three championship and the 19-year-old Brazilian’s shotmaking and tenacity was too much.
• He wound up a three-game winner, defeating Opelka 10-6, 7-10, 10-5 and taking home the winners’ share of $300,000. Mind you, he’s not old enough to gamble any of it in a casino but he could probably afford a nice dinner at one of the Strip’s fine restaurants.“I think I have a pretty good mentality,” Fonseca said of dealing with the format.
• “I try to focus my routine and concentrate on each shot.
• You can’t adjust much.
• You just go play and focus on that."Opelka, who made $200,000 as the runner-up Sunday said of the event: “It’s a nice little switch-up.