Andrey Rublev and Jakub Mensik will clash against each other in the quarter of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrey Rublev who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrey Rublev is the pick to win this match.
Andrey Rublev -> 1.137
Jakub Mensik -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Andrey Rublev vs. Jakub Mensik
There is no head to head record between Andrey Rublev and Jakub Mensik since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Andrey Rublev
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 37-18 | 24-9 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 56-26 | 23-12 | 19-5 | 6-7 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 51-20 | 19-7 | 14-6 | 18-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 53-23 | 25-10 | 9-5 | 12-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 41-10 | 17-4 | 10-2 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 5 (career-high), the Russian got to the quarter after beating Richard Gasquet 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Andrey had a good straight sets win against Gasquet (6-3 6-4). During the match, Rublev scored 58 points vs Gasquet’s 41. Rublev was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Rublev blasted 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Andrey Rublev was pretty efficient on serve to win 90% (28/31) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Andrey broke Gasquet twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Rublev has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (401-222). 9-1 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Rublev has a compiled 162-83 match record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Hong Kong where he defeated Emil Ruusuvuori in the final 6-4 6-4.
Rublev has a composed 11-2 win-loss record in 2024, 9-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Jakub Mensik
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 32-20 | 22-10 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-23 | 10-6 | 17-11 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 37-16 | 18-4 | 17-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
2021 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 116 (career-high), the Czech reached the quarter after defeating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-63 6-4 and Andy Murray 7-66 6-73 7-64.
In the 2nd round, The Czech defeated Murray (7-66 6-73 7-64).During the match Mensik scored less points (2) than Murray. In fact, the world no. 5 won 122 points vs Murray’s. That means that Mensik was more focused during the important points. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about serving, Mensik managed to score 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jakub Mensik lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mensik put 62% of his first serves in, winning 68% (52/77) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (28/48) on the 2nd serve. Mensik was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Murray 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jakub has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Jakub’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Canberra Challenger.
The Czech has an overall 13-3 win-loss record in 2024, 12-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Jakub has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Rublev | Mensik |
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Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
Tot Games | 19 | 62 |
Pts | 58-41 | 192-184 |
Total Points | 99 | 376 |
Winners | 28 | 78 |
%Winners | 48% | 41% |
Rublev played 1 match while Mensik competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Jakub Mensik dropped 1 set while Andrey Rublev hasn’t lost a set so far. Rublev has played 3 set(s) less than Mensik (2 vs 5). Therefore, Rublev played 43 games less than Mensik. Rublev scored 28 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Jakub struck 78 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Rublev | Mensik |
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Aces | 7 | 16 |
Avg per match | 7 | 8 |
1st in | 31/48 | 114/191 |
%1st in | 65% | 60% |
1st pts | 28/31 | 78/114 |
%1st pts | 90% | 68% |
2nd pts | 12/17 | 44/77 |
%2nd pts | 71% | 57% |
Rublev managed to score 7 aces . Mensik blasted 16 aces (8 per match). Rublev won 90% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Mensik won 68% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Rublev | Mensik |
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Won | 2 | 6 |
Converted | 2/4 | 6/8 |
% Converted | 50% | 75% |
Conceded | 0 | 11 |
Saved | 0 | 6 |
% Saved | 0% | 55% |
Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Rublev broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Rublev pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Mensik broke his opponents 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Mensik conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded.
Rublev | |||
R2 Gasquet |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 58-41 | 58-41 | |
Total points | 99 | 99 | |
Winners | 28 | 28 | |
%Winners | 48% | 48% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 7 | 7 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 31/48 | 31/48 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 28/31 | 28/31 | |
% 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
% 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Mensik | ||||
R1 Davidovich Fokina |
R2 Murray |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-63 6-4 | 7-66 6-73 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Tot Games | 23 | 39 | 62 | |
pts | 70-60 | 122-124 | 192-184 | |
Total points | 130 | 246 | 376 | |
Winners | 26 | 52 | 78 | |
%Winners | 37% | 43% | 41% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 4 | 12 | 16 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
1st in | 37/66 | 77/125 | 114/191 | |
% 1st in | 56% | 62% | 60% | |
1st pts | 26/37 | 52/77 | 78/114 | |
% 1st pts | 70% | 68% | 68% | |
2nd pts | 16/29 | 28/48 | 44/77 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 58% | 57% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/3 | 6/8 | |
Converted % | 60% | 100% | 75% | |
Conceded | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
Saved | 2/4 | 4/7 | 6 | |
Saved % | 50% | 57% | 107% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Head 2 Head
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