{"id":711302,"date":"2026-06-03T02:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:19:11","slug":"jakub-mensik-beats-joao-fonseca-updated-french-open-mens-bracket-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711302\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakub Mensik Beats Joao Fonseca, Updated French Open Men&#8217;s Bracket at Roland-Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jakub Mensik&#8217;s incredible run at Roland-Garros continued on Tuesday evening after he defeated Joao Fonseca in straight sets<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/matches\/2026\/SM006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u20146-4, 6-3, 7-6 (3)\u2014<\/a>to advance to the semifinal round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mensik, the No. 26 seed in this year&#8217;s draw, dominated with his serve. He amassed nine aces and won 83 percent of his first serve points (54-of-65). Mensik also dominated at the net, winning 38-of-51 points there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In the first set, Mensik broke Fonseca, the No. 28 seed, with the score tied at two games apiece. Mensik held serve from there to take the first set, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The same pattern happened in the second set, as Mensik broke Fonseca with the score tied at two each once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">However, this time, Mensik broke Fonseca once more to close the set, winning 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Fonseca got off to a great start in the third set, breaking Mensik right away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">However, Mensik broke Fonseca a few games later to tie the set at two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">An incredible battle ensued from there. Fonseca broke Mensik to go up 4-3, but Mensik broke back shortly thereafter in a 16-point game to tie it up at five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mensik held serve to go up 6-5 and then had six match points in a 20-point game. Remarkably, Fonseca held off all of them to force the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">However, Mensik took control. He held serve on his first point and got his second point immediately on Fonseca&#8217;s serve for the early 2-0 edge en route to the 7-3 tiebreaker victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 20-year-old Mensik, who has now made his first major semifinals, will now face No. 2 Alexander Zverev. The 19-year-old Fonseca still impressed in his best-ever showing at a major, making the quarterfinals for the first time ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakub Mensik&#8217;s incredible run at Roland-Garros continued on Tuesday evening after he defeated Joao Fonseca in straight sets\u20146-4,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-711302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}