H2H, prediction of Jakub Mensik vs Nikoloz Basilashvili at the Australian Open with odds, preview, pick | 13th January 2025

PREVIEW. Melbourne. Mensik and Basilashvili will square off in the 1st round of the Australian Open. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their upcoming match on Monday the 13th of January

Prediction and head to head Jakub Mensik vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili

Jakub Mensik and Nikoloz Basilashvili will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on Court 12. In the following lines 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.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Jakub Mensik is the pick to win this match.
Jakub Mensik -> 1.129
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 5.95

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Prediction and head to head Jakub Mensik vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili

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

The last time that they played each other, Mensik won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Manama Challenger back in 2024.

Jakub Mensik

Jakub Mensik
Jakub Mensik

4 - 2win/loss

Hard
4-2
I Hard
0-0
Rank
17
High
17
LWWLWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-15 16-6 6-5 1-1 4-3 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. 49, Mensik will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Auckland where he lost 6-7(4) 6-2 7-6(4) to Borges in the quarter on the 9th of January.

Mensik has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Mensik has an overall 120-72 record. He has a positive 58-24 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.

Mensik
Australian Open
Mensik's Record

Nikoloz Basilashvili

Nikoloz Basilashvili
Nikoloz Basilashvili

3 - 0win/loss

Hard
3-0
I Hard
0-0
Rank
114
High
16
LWLLLWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-21 7-6 9-10 6-2 5-3 0-0
2024 51-32 11-8 27-15 13-9 0-0 0-0
2023 4-19 1-8 0-5 3-6 0-0 0-0
2022 16-31 3-11 5-9 4-7 4-4 0-0
2021 35-27 18-11 8-8 3-5 6-3 0-0

Ranked no. 210, Nikoloz got to the 1st round after defeating Cruz Hewitt 6-1 6-4, Alibek Kachmazov 7-5 6-4 and Francesco Passaro 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications, Nikoloz had a good straight sets win against Passaro (6-3 6-3). During the match Basilashvili scored 76 points vs Passaro’s 65. Nikoloz was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Basilashvili bagged 8 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Nikoloz Basilashvili was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Georgean broke Passaro 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Basilashvili started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.

Basilashvili has a compiled 3-0 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2018 and 2019. See his history.

Basilashvili
Australian Open
Basilashvili's Record
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Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Mensik
LWWLWLWLLW
Basilashvili
LWLLLWWWWL
2025 2024 2023
27 - 15
27 - 21
16-6
Hard
7-6
1-1
I Hard
6-2
6-5
Clay
9-10
4-3
Grass
5-3

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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