Jakub Mensik and Borna Coric will square off in the qualifications of the National Bank Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jakub Mensik who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jakub Mensik is the pick to win this match.
Jakub Mensik -> 1.3
Borna Coric -> 3.32

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Prediction and head to head Jakub Mensik vs. Borna Coric

This will be the 2^nd time that Jakub Mensik and Borna Coric face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mensik (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Mensik won 4-6 6-3 7-6(7) in the 1^st round in Dubai back in February 2024.

Highlights Jakub Mensik vs Borna Coric – Dubai 27-February-2024

Jakub Mensik

Ranked no. 64 (career-high), the Czech reached the qualifications after beating Taha Baadi 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Jakub had a good straight sets win against Baadi (6-3 7-5). During the match, Mensik scored 88 points vs Baadi’s 73. The Czech was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mensik blasted 12 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jakub Mensik lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Mensik put 65% of his first serves in, winning 75% (40/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (10/28) on the 2nd serve. Jakub broke Baadi 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Mensik has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 63% of his matches (102-59). 18-7 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mensik has an aggregate46-17 record in the last 4 years on hard.

The Czech’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Canberra Challenger and Doha.

The Czech has an overall 27-16 win-loss record in 2024, 18-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Toronto

Mensik has never competed in this tournament before.

Borna Coric

Ranked no. 94, Coric reached the qualifications after defeating Liam Draxl 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Borna had a good straight sets win against Draxl (6-4 6-2). During the match Coric scored 64 points vs Draxl’s 51. The Croatian was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.

About the serving games, Coric struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Borna Coric was quite effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Croatian broke Draxl 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Borna’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Neuve Challenger and Montpellier.

Coric has an aggregate 14-17 win-loss record in 2024, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Toronto

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mensik	Coric
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	18
Pts	88-73	64-51
Total Points	161	115
Winners	40	21
%Winners	45%	33%

Both Mensik and Coric played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mensik and Coric have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mensik played 3 games more than Coric. Jakub scored 40 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Borna blasted 21 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mensik	Coric
Aces	12	7
Avg per match	12	7
1st in	53/81	27/58
%1st in	65%	47%
1st pts	40/53	21/27
%1st pts	75%	78%
2nd pts	10/28	18/31
%2nd pts	36%	58%

Mensik struck 12 aces . Coric struck 7 aces . Mensik won 75% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 36% of the points. On the other side, Coric won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mensik	Coric
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/7
% Converted	44%	57%
Conceded	10	4
Saved	8	3
% Saved	80%	75%
Times Broken	2	1

Jakub broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Mensik dropped his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Borna broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Croatian conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Mensik
	Q1 Baadi	Total
Score	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	88-73	88-73
Total points	161	161
Winners	40	40
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	53/81	53/81
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	40/53	40/53
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	10/28	10/28
% 2nd pts	36%	36%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	8/10	8
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	2	2

Coric
	Q1 Draxl	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	64-51	64-51
Total points	115	115
Winners	21	21
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	27/58	27/58
% 1st in	47%	47%
1st pts	21/27	21/27
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	18/31	18/31
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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