{"id":618154,"date":"2026-06-03T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618154\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:54:08","slug":"ice-man-mensik-holds-his-nerve-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618154\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice-man Mensik holds his nerve &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the sport\u2019s brightest young talents both entered uncharted territory on Tuesday night in Paris when Brazil\u2019s Joao Fonseca and Czechia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/47921-j.mensik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jakub Mensik<\/a> arrived on Court Philippe-Chatrier, each chasing a first Grand Slam semifinal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the match, the second meeting between the two under-21 talents, was a preview of tennis&#8217; future, it was also a study in contrasts. <\/p>\n<p>Both men serve big, and hit bigger. But the 19-year-old Fonseca wears his emotions on his\u00a0sleeve, feeding off fervent Brazilian fan support that follows him wherever he goes with the exuberance of youth, while Mensik carries himself with a quieter, more measured confidence that beguiles his age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in his Chatrier debut, the 20-year-old Czech&#8217;s calm proved decisive &#8211; even if, as he said in his on-court interview, there were some jitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the sport\u2019s brightest young talents both entered uncharted territory on Tuesday night in Paris when Brazil\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618154","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\/618154","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=618154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}