Jacob Minsik: Will Miami’s Open title be among many 19 -year -old Czech star waiting? | Tennis News

Jakub Mensik hopes that his open success in Miami is the first among many after the Czech teenager has completed the most difficult tennis by defeating the great Novak Djokovic in a big final.

“I am still nineteen years old, so I have my career in front of me. It is great to get this (cup) next to me, but it is not about the only title, one championship … I am hungry for more.”

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It is clear that he has a taste for success.

Minsik, who won the 4th World Taylor Fritz in the semi -finals and Indian wells Jacques Darbar in a previous round, will rise to the best 24 profession in the latest ATP classifications, two years after his ranking in the nineteenth place in the world.

He also became the first Czech player to win the ATP MASTERS 1000 event since Tomas berdych prevailed in 2005 in Paris.

The Grand Slam champion, Minsik, attended 24 times with Poise and Stellar 130 miles per hour, and 14 landslides declined, not only once violated Djokovic, the title of his hundred careers and scored in seventh place in the Miami Open.

“He was not really happy to lose, but there was one of the few players who would be happier to lose, and I was honest. I saw him playing when he was 15 or 16 years old and invited him. We had some training blocks together. He was training in my club in Belgrade, seeing his development and development is really wonderful and amazing,” said Djokovic, 37, said.

“I could have already seen it three years ago, four years ago, it would be one of the best players in the world. So, I am very happy because he uses the capabilities he has because he has a full game.

“It serves incredible, strong, accurate, wins a lot of free points with the first service.

Nick Kergius, the former final of the Wimbledon, took over, and described Minsik as “special” that the prostitative citizen presented his capabilities with his title before marriage.

“Mensik is really a special thing. Not only have you to have such a balance against the greatest time at all at this stage, but the fact that he is 19 years old … This is really a special child who has a lot of potential to do special things.”

Who is Jacob, wonderful?

The 19 -year -old, nicknamed “Menimal”, loves the ribs and backup towers above his opponents in 6 feet and 4 inches. It is quickly followed in the footsteps of the legendary Czech Republic of Petra Kvitova and Thomas Birdish.

At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest man since Borna Coric in 2014 wins the main Draw match in the US Open and made it until the third round in 2023, where Fritz ended his session.

Mensik even received an unexpected invitation to practice with Djokovic after hacking.

“I mean, playing with Novak or being part of his preparation, it was very important for me,” he said. “This is a good experience because it pushed me a lot. When you can spend time with the best player in the world, perhaps in history, I don’t even know what to say … I learned a lot of things.”

Mensik arrived in his first round at the level of the round in 2024 in the Qatar Open, where I defeated Andrei and André Rubelv before losing in the final match against Karen Khashanov.

Then Gregor Dimitrov disturbed the third round of Madrid, then made the third round of the United States open for the second year in a row.

The sixth talented young man, Casper Road, was astonished in the second round of the Australian Open, but he went out in the next round to Alejandro Davidovich Fukyina.

Then he suffered a decline in the model after its exploits in Melbourne. However, the Miami Open Championship witnessed a return in a form of Czech Republic as he showed maturity after his years for his mastery at all.

Mensik is part of a generation of young players who include Wonderkid Joao FONSECA, the American learner Tien and Frenchman Arthur Fils.

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