{"id":437410,"date":"2026-02-21T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:54:12","slug":"fils-joins-alcaraz-in-doha-final-with-impressive-win-over-mensik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/437410\/","title":{"rendered":"Fils joins Alcaraz in Doha final with impressive win over Mensik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Fils will go up against Carlos Alcaraz in the Doha final after the 21-year-old Frenchman was a 6-4, 7-6 4) winner over sixth seed Jakub Mensik, who defeated Jannik Sinner in the last eight.<\/p>\n

Fils<\/a> secured a place in his first tour-level final since lifting the ATP 500 trophy in Tokyo in 2024 with an impressive straight-sets win<\/a> over 2024 finalist Mensik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Czech was outstanding in his quarter-final win over Sinner<\/a> but could not hit the same heights against Fils.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a tough journey,” said Fils, who is playing just his third event since returning after eight months on the sidelines with a back injury.<\/p>\n

“Eight months without playing tennis, just watching the other guys battling… Staying in my bed and doing recovery was very long.<\/p>\n

“My team knows how tough it was, but now it feels even better when I am coming back like this. To be back in a final, it means a lot.”<\/p>\n

Fils, ranked 40, recently added 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic to his coaching staff and feels he may be in a position to beat Alcaraz<\/a>, who has won both of their previous meetings which came on clay.<\/p>\n

“If you believe, then maybe you can do it, so I believe 100 per cent,” said Fils. “Let’s see tomorrow on the court but for sure I am coming on court to fight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arthur Fils will go up against Carlos Alcaraz in the Doha final after the 21-year-old Frenchman was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-437410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}