Jakub Mensik upsets Luciano Darderi 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in Umag on Wednesday. Mensik will engage against Chun Hsin Tseng in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes.
The Czech added to his prize money € 7,345 after conquering this match. He has already won € 17,510 after this win. If he wins the next match, Jakub will add € 12,710 to his earnings to get in total € 30,220 in total.
Highlights Jakub Mensik vs. Luciano Darderi Plava Laguna Croatia Open – Umag
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Mensik scored 64 points vs. the Italian’s 53.
Mensik
Mensik served pretty well to win 76% of the points (28/37) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 45% points (13/29) on his second serve. The Czech was well focused in converting 80% of the break points that he conquered (4/5).
Darderi
On the other side, Darderi was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (2/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Mensik and Darderi is 1-0 for Jakub.
Draw and next match H2H: Jakub Mensik vs. Chun Hsin Tseng – stats
Mensik will take on Hsin Tseng in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Jakub Mensik and Chun Hsin Tseng since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Jakub won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 9th (5-4) game, The Czech broke back 3 times in the 6th (3-3), in the 8th (5-3) and in the 10th game to win the set 6-4.
Mensik failed to serve out the set when leading 6-4 to be broken at 30.
A crucial moment of this set was when Jakub won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to convert the game count from 1-3 to 5-3.
Jakub converted 75% of his break points (3/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 30-40), the 6th (2-3 30-40), the 7th (4-3 15-40) and the 10th game (5-4 30-40). In addition on the other side, the Italian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had his opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 40-A), the 7th (3-3 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 75 points. Jakub won 5 points more than the Italian (40-35). Mensik surrendered 21 points on serve (25-21). Regarding the other side of the net, Luciano conceded 15 points on serve (14-15).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that the Czech conquered in the 6th game (4-2) before ultimately conquering the set (6-3).
Mensik was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (3-2 30-40). On the other side, the Czech didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 42 points. Mensik conquered the set after winning 6 points more than the Italian (24-18). The Czech was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). on the other side of the net, Darderi conceded 8 points on serve (14-8).
Tennis Scores in Umag
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Matej DodigDodig (6-3 6-4)
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-4 6-3)
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-1 6-0)
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Flavio CobolliCobolli (7-65 7-63)
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Alexandre MullerMuller (7-5 6-1)
- Jakub MensikMensik – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-4 6-3)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (6-2 7-67)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-4 7-5)
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