Novak Djokovic and Jakub Mensik will face off in the quarter of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.11
Jakub Mensik -> 6.55
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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Jakub Mensik
There is no head to head record between Novak Djokovic and Jakub Mensik since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Novak Djokovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-5 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-9 | 15-5 | 16-3 | 1-0 | 5-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-7 | 27-1 | 12-3 | 11-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-7 | 2-1 | 14-4 | 19-2 | 7-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 55-7 | 19-3 | 18-3 | 11-1 | 7-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 4, the Serbian got to the quarter after defeating Alex Michelsen 7-6(3) 7-6(9), Flavio Cobolli 6-1 6-2 and Roman Safiullin 6-3 6-2.
In the 4th round, Djokovic had a good straight sets win against Safiullin (6-3 6-2). During the match, Djokovic scored 58 points vs Safiullin’s 36. Novak was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Djokovic recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Novak Djokovic conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Djokovic put 65% of his first serves in, winning 88% (29/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Novak broke Safiullin 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Djokovic hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
Djokovic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 86% of his matches (518-81). 13-4 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Djokovic has an aggregate 234-31 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current season was conquering the title in Paris where he overcame Carlos Alcaraz in the final 7-6(3) 7-6(2).
Novak has an aggregate 35-8 win-loss record in 2024, 13-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Jakub Mensik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-7 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-27 | 26-12 | 6-4 | 7-6 | 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. 65, the Czech got to the quarter after defeating Pedro Martinez Portero 6-1 5-7 6-4, Andrey Rublev 6-7(7) 6-4 6-3, Alexander Shevchenko 6-1 6-7(5) 6-2 and Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 3-6 6-4.
In the 4th round, The Czech defeated Dimitrov (6-3 3-6 6-4). During the match Mensik and Dimitrov scored the same amount of points (90). However, the world no. 4 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Mensik was extremely aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Mensik scored 10 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Jakub Mensik lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Mensik put 61% of his first serves in, winning 78% (42/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (14/35) on the 2nd serve. Mensik broke Dimitrov 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jakub has conceded 4 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.
Jakub has an overall 36-21 win-loss record in 2024, 26-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Djokovic | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 12 |
| Tot Games | 58 | 117 |
| Pts | 207-144 | 395-339 |
| Total Points | 351 | 734 |
| Winners | 89 | 163 |
| %Winners | 43% | 41% |
Djokovic played 3 matches while Mensik competed in 4 matches. At the moment, Jakub Mensik conceded 4 sets while Novak Djokovic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Djokovic has played 6 set(s) less than Mensik (6 vs 12). Therefore, Djokovic played 59 games less than Mensik. The Serbian scored 89 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Mensik scored 163 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Djokovic | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 14 | 44 |
| Avg per match | 4.7 | 11 |
| 1st in | 109/167 | 212/358 |
| %1st in | 65% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 89/109 | 163/212 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 37/58 | 76/146 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 52% |
Djokovic struck 14 aces (4.7 per match). Mensik bagged 44 aces (11 per match). Djokovic won 82% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Mensik won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Djokovic | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 19 |
| Converted | 9/21 | 19/49 |
| % Converted | 43% | 39% |
| Conceded | 8 | 22 |
| Saved | 6 | 13 |
| % Saved | 75% | 59% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 9 |
Djokovic broke his opponents 9 times with a 43% conversion rate. Djokovic surrendered his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Jakub broke his opponents 19 times with a 39% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 59% of the break points that he conceded.
| Djokovic | |||||
| R2 Michelsen |
R3 Cobolli |
R4 Safiullin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 7-69 | 6-1 6-2 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 15 | 17 | 58 | |
| pts | 87-75 | 62-33 | 58-36 | 207-144 | |
| Total points | 162 | 95 | 94 | 351 | |
| Winners | 40 | 20 | 29 | 89 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 32% | 50% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 52/76 | 24/40 | 33/51 | 109/167 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 60% | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 40/52 | 20/24 | 29/33 | 89/109 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 83% | 88% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 13/16 | 9/18 | 37/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 81% | 50% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 4/9 | 3/5 | 9/21 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 44% | 60% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 0/0 | 3/3 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | – | 100% | 53% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mensik | ||||||
| R1 Martinez Portero |
R2 Rublev |
R3 Shevchenko |
R4 Dimitrov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 5-7 6-4 | 6-77 6-4 6-3 | 6-1 6-75 6-2 | 6-3 3-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 32 | 28 | 28 | 117 | |
| pts | 91-71 | 116-107 | 98-71 | 90-90 | 395-339 | |
| Total points | 162 | 223 | 169 | 180 | 734 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | 39 | 42 | 163 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 35% | 40% | 47% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 14 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 44 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 53/81 | 58/107 | 47/81 | 54/89 | 212/358 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 54% | 58% | 61% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 41/53 | 41/58 | 39/47 | 42/54 | 163/212 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 71% | 83% | 78% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 26/49 | 20/34 | 14/35 | 76/146 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 53% | 59% | 40% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 19 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 7/19 | 5/9 | 3/15 | 19/49 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 37% | 56% | 20% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 22 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 8/12 | 1/2 | 2/4 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 67% | 50% | 50% | 72% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |
Head 2 Head
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