Alexander Shevchenko and Jakub Mensik will face off in the 3^rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.42
Alexander Shevchenko -> 2.86

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Jakub Mensik

This will be the 3^rd time that Alexander Shevchenko and Jakub Mensik square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Mensik (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Mensik won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Paris back in July 2024.

Alexander Shevchenko

Alexander Shevchenko

20 - 31win/loss

Hard

8-12

I Hard

5-4

Clay

6-12

Grass

1-3

Rank
80

High
45

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	22-35	8-13	6-12	7-7	1-3	0-0
2023	45-34	16-15	19-13	10-5	0-1	0-0
2022	50-33	2-4	41-23	7-6	0-0	0-0
2021	49-27	8-4	33-17	8-6	0-0	0-0
2020	24-8	13-4	11-4	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 58, Shevchenko reached the 3^rd round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1 7-6(3) and Francisco Cerundolo 7-6(7) 7-5.

In the 2^nd round, Shevchenko had a good straight sets win against Cerundolo (7-6⁷ 7-5). During the match, Shevchenko scored 85 points vs Cerundolo’s 76. Alexander was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about the service games, Shevchenko made 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Shevchenko lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shevchenko put 73% of his first serves in, winning 77% (41/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Shevchenko broke Cerundolo 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexander hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Shevchenko has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (250-167). 8-12 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shevchenko has a compiled48-40 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Kazakhstani has a compiled 20-31 win-loss record in 2024, 8-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Shanghai

Shevchenko's Record

Jakub Mensik

Jakub Mensik

34 - 21win/loss

Hard

24-11

I Hard

2-1

Clay

6-4

Grass

2-5

Rank
49

High
48

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	41-24	26-12	6-4	7-3	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

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Ranked no. 65, Jakub reached the 3^rd round after beating Pedro Martinez Portero 6-1 5-7 6-4 and Andrey Rublev 6-7(7) 6-4 6-3.

In the 2^nd round against Rublev, Jakub recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁷ 6-4 6-3). During the match Mensik scored 116 points vs Rublev’s 107. Mensik was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.

About the serving games, Mensik managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jakub Mensik was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (41/58) of his 1st serve and 53% (26/49) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 4 times. Jakub broke Rublev 7 times after converting 37% of his break points (7/19).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jakub has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The Czech’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Canberra Challenger and Doha.

The Czech has an overall 34-21 win-loss record in 2024, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.

Shanghai

Mensik's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Shevchenko and Mensik played 2 matches. At the moment, Jakub Mensik conceded 2 sets while Alexander Shevchenko hasn’t dropped a set so far. Shevchenko has played 2 set(s) less than Mensik (4 vs 6). Therefore, Shevchenko played 16 games less than Mensik. The Kazakhstani scored 73 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech bagged 82 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Shevchenko managed to score 10 aces (5 per match). Mensik scored 25 aces (12.5 per match). Shevchenko won 79% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Mensik won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Alexander broke his opponents 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Shevchenko surrendered his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponents 11 times with a 44% conversion rate. Mensik conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Alexander
Shevchenko

0:3

Jakub
Mensik

Rank

80

High

45

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Rank

49

High

48

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

22 - 34

39 - 23

8-13

Hard

26-12

7-6

I Hard

5-2

6-12

Clay

6-4

1-3

Grass

2-5

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• Tommy PaulPaul – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-7² 7-6⁶ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Yibing WuWu (7-6⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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