Umag
Mensik, Cobolli make successful begins in Umag
Jeddah hopeful drops simply 5 video games in robust opener
July 22, 2024
Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
Jakub Mensik, 18, is the youngest participant within the Umag discipline.
By ATP Employees
Czech teen Jakub Mensik continued his push in direction of a spot at December’s Subsequent Gen ATP Finals introduced by PIF with a convincing win over Alexei Popyrin on the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag Monday.
Mensik, who reached the Doha last in February, improved to 13-10 on the season with a 6-3, 6-2 win over the Australian (13-13), who lately pushed Novak Djokovic to 4 units at Wimbledon.
Within the pair’s first Lexus ATP Head2Head assembly, 18-year-old Mensik saved all 4 break factors he confronted in keeping with Infosys ATP Stats.
Mensik, who’s now 8-4 in first-round matches in his profession, subsequent faces the winner of fifth-seeded Italian Luciano Darderi and residential hope Duje Ajdukovic, who final week pushed Rafael Nadal to 3 units within the Bastad semi-finals.
In one other good outcome for the ATP’s rising stars Monday, 22-year-old Italian Flavio Cobolli upset sixth-seeded Argentine Mariano Navone 6-2, 6-3. The win lifted Cobolli to a career-high No. 46 within the PIF ATP Dwell Rankings.
Brazilian Thiago Monteiro defeated seventh-seeded Czech Tomas Machac 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to set a gathering with Hungarian Fabian Marozsan.
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