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Mensik, Cobolli make successful begins in Umag

Jeddah hopeful drops simply 5 video games in robust opener

July 22, 2024

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.