Jakub Mensik racked up a plethora of stellar statistical feats as he upset Novak Djokovic to win his first-ever career title at the 2025 Miami Open.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Czech produced an outstanding display to earn a 7-6(4), 7-6(4) victory against Djokovic in a rain-delayed final at the Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n
After his triumph, Mensik<\/a>\u00a0paid tribute to Djokovic, who he has revealed is his biggest idol.<\/p>\n \u201cNovak, everyone knows you\u2019re the one\u2026 the reason I\u2019m here. I watched you growing up. I started to play tennis because of you,\u201d Mensik said during the trophy ceremony.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is not a harder task for a tennis player than to beat you in the final of a tournament. Thank you so much for everything you\u2019ve done in this sport and for everyone. You\u2019re an incredible person. The greatest of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n Here are nine impressive stats after Mensik\u2019s breakthrough win.<\/p>\n Having entered the tournament as the world No 54, Mensik has become the lowest-ranked player to ever win the Miami Open men\u2019s singles title.<\/p>\n The big-serving Czech won all seven tiebreaks he played in his six matches in Miami, which is the most any player has won en route to securing a Masters 1000 title.<\/p>\n He won two tiebreaks against Jack Draper in the second round, one against Arthur Fils in the quarter-finals, two against Taylor Fritz in the last four and two against Djokovic in the final.<\/p>\n Mensik is only the second player to win seven tiebreaks in a title run at any level of ATP tournament after John Isner, who also prevailed in seven tiebreaks en route to winning the 2013 Atlanta Open.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old has become only the second teenager ranked outside the top 20 to win a Masters 1000 event after Michael Chang, who triumphed at the 1990 Canadian Open when ranked 24th.<\/p>\n Mensik is only the fourth ATP player to win their maiden career singles title at Masters level after\u00a0Roberto Carretero (Hamburg 1996), Chris Woodruff (Montreal 1997) and Albert Portas (Hamburg 2001).<\/p>\n Jakub Mensik\u2019s \u2018lucky\u2019 admission as Novak Djokovic is again forced to wait for 100th ATP title<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic\u2019s big statement about Jakub Mensik as he offers \u2018happier to lose\u2019 confession<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Czech is the fifth-youngest man to win a Masters 1000 title after Chang, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune.<\/p>\n Only five players have won a Masters 1000 title with a lower ATP ranking than Mensik\u2019s 54: Borna Coric (152),\u00a0Carretero (143), Mikael Pernfors (95), Alexei Popyrin (62) and Woodruff (57).<\/p>\n Mensik is just the second player ranked outside the top 50 to beat Djokovic in an ATP final after Stan Wawrinka, who achieved the feat at the 2006 Croatia Open \u2014 when the Serb was forced to retire in the first set.<\/p>\n Mensik\u2019s win over Djokovic, the world No 5, improves his record against top 10 players to an\u00a0outstanding 8-3.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Money and points earned by Mensik, Djokovic, Zverev, Alcaraz at Miami Open<\/a> The post 9 stellar Jakub Mensik feats and statistics after sensational Miami Open title win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jakub Mensik racked up a plethora of stellar statistical feats as he upset Novak Djokovic to win his first-ever career title at the 2025 Miami Open. The 19-year-old Czech produced an outstanding display to earn a 7-6(4), 7-6(4) victory against Djokovic in a rain-delayed final at the Hard Rock Stadium. After his triumph, Mensik\u00a0paid tribute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lowest-ranked man to win the Miami Open<\/h4>\n
First player to win seven tiebreaks en route to a Masters 1000 title<\/h4>\n
Second player to win seven tiebreaks en route to an ATP title<\/h4>\n
Second teenager outside top 20 to win a Masters 1000 title<\/h4>\n
Fourth man to win their maiden title at a Masters 1000 event<\/h4>\n
ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
Fifth-youngest man to win a Masters 1000 title<\/h4>\n
Sixth lowest-ranked player to\u00a0win a Masters 1000 title<\/h4>\n
Second player outside top 50 to defeat Novak Djokovic in a final<\/h4>\n
Improves his superb record vs. top 10 opponents<\/h4>\n
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