Alexei Popyrin and Jakub Mensik will face off in the 1st round of the Erste Bank Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jakub Mensik who should win in 3 sets.
Jakub Mensik -> 1.9
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Jakub Mensik
This will be the 2nd time that Alexei Popyrin and Jakub Mensik face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mensik (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Mensik won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Umag back in July 2024.
Highlights Jakub Mensik vs Alexei Popyrin – Umag 22-July-2024
Alexei Popyrin
28 - 20win/loss
24
23
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-22 | 17-8 | 4-8 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-16 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 24, the Australian will start his run in Vienna after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 7-6(5) 6-2 to Dimitrov in the 3rd round on the 8th of October.
Popyrin has an aggregate 28-20 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in Montreal where he overcame Andrey Rublev in the final 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Popyrin has an overall 271-211 record. He has a positive 37-34 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Vienna
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021 and 2023. See his history.
Jakub Mensik
38 - 22win/loss
48
48
| 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 |
Ranked no. 51 (career-high), Mensik got to the 1st round after defeating Alexander Ritschard 6-3 6-4 and Alexandre Muller 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Mensik had a good straight sets win against Muller (6-3 6-2). During the match Mensik scored 62 points vs Muller’s 45. Mensik was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Mensik bagged 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jakub Mensik conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Mensik put 65% of his first serves in, winning 86% (31/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Jakub broke Muller 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jakub started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
The Czech’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Canberra Challenger and Doha.
Jakub has an overall 38-22 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Vienna
Mensik has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Vienna
- Quentin HalysHalys – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-76 6-3) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-7(6) 6-3) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-1 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Jack DraperDraper (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-1) – H2H and prediction