{"id":38055,"date":"2025-08-01T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:15:08","slug":"tennis-atp-toronto-masters-2025-davidovich-fokina-takes-out-mensik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38055\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, ATP \u2013 Toronto Masters 2025: Davidovich Fokina takes out Mensik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina didn\u2019t just wake up early on Friday at the Aviva Centre, he also outlasted Czech Jakub Mensik, the No. 12 seed, with a straight-sets 6-2, 6-4 victory to reach the last 16 of the Toronto Masters. The No. 20 seed and world No. 26 will next face the winner of the match between Russian Andrey Rublev and Italian Lorenzo Sonego.<\/p>\n

Finally, it seems Davidovich Fokina is indeed a morning man, despite his well-publicized grumbles about the early match time. Before stepping on court at 11 a.m. local in. Canada, he vented on social media: \u201cWhy am I the only one playing at 11am? Come on ATP, give me some love \ud83d\ude43 #EarlyBirdProblems.\u201d British player Dan Evans delivered what might pass for tough love, replying, \u201cGet up and play. The world gets up and works from 9 to 5 or even 8 to 6. Pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davidovich Fokina\u2019s journey to the third round in Toronto was no stroll in the park. His solid win over Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the second round, 6-4, 6-3, marked a personal milestone \u2013 his 33rd match win this season, surpassing his previous best of 32 wins set last year. Moreover, this marked Davidovich Fokina\u2019s 20th victory on hard courts this season, a milestone only one other male player has achieved so far this year.<\/p>\n

Having recently come close to clinching the Washington Open title \u2013 only to fall in the final after holding championship points against Alex de Minaur \u2013\u00a0his on-court determination is as palpable as his off-court frustrations.<\/p>\n

Toronto Masters 1000, other third-round results (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 9.193.540, most recent results first):<\/p>\n

Brandon Nakashima vs. Ben Shelton<\/p>\n

Alex De Minaur (9) beat Christopher O\u2019Connell: W\/O<\/p>\n

Gabriel Diallo vs. Taylor Fritz<\/p>\n


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Flavio Cobolli vs. Fabian Marozsan<\/p>\n

Frances Tiafoe vs. Aleksandar Vukic<\/p>\n

Arthur Fils vs. Jiri Lehecka<\/p>\n

Andrey Rublev vs. Lorenzo Sonego<\/p>\n

Alexei Popyrin (18) beat Daniil Medvedev (10): 5-7, 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n

Holger Rune (5) beat Alexandre Muller (29): 6-2, 6-4<\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev (1) beat Matteo Arnaldi (32): 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2<\/p>\n

Learner Tien beat Reilly Opelka: 7-6 (3), 6-3<\/p>\n

Casper Ruud (8) beat Nuno Borges (30): 7-5, 6-4<\/p>\n

Francisco Cerundolo (14) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry: 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n

Alex Michelsen (26) beat Lorenzo Musetti (3): 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4<\/p>\n

Karen Khachanov (11) beat Emilio Nava (Q): 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina didn\u2019t just wake up early on Friday at the Aviva Centre, he also outlasted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-38055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}