Tiafoe squandered three match points from 6\/3 in the third-set tie-break, followed by three more missed opportunities. The American then faced defeat himself, saving match points at 7\/8 and 9\/10 before sealing victory after two hours and 51 minutes. <\/p>\n
After toppling the defending champion, Tiafoe celebrated in style, tearing off his shirt and soaking in the energy of the packed crowd. The win also marked a major milestone, his 250th tour-level victory, making him just the second active American, alongside Taylor Fritz<\/a>, to reach that mark.<\/p>\n “I am pretty pumped,” Tiafoe said. “I have put in a lot of work to win matches like these, to get myself to be able to hang tough and be tough and to play great tennis three hours in. I was hurting, he was hurting, a day match is never easy. I am super happy with the match. It is one of those even if you go down, it was a great battle.”<\/p>\n Mensik defeated Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the final in Florida 12 months ago to clinch his maiden tour-level trophy. The 20-year-old moved past Adam Walton<\/a> in his opener this fortnight but could not find a way past Tiafoe, who levelled the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series at 1-1.<\/p>\n Tiafoe, 28, is into the fourth round in Miami for the fifth time and first since 2022. The No. 20 player in the PIF ATP Rankings will next play Terence Atmane<\/a> after the Frenchman upset Top 10 star Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n Atmane\u2019s victory against the Canadian was his third against a Top 10 player. Last year, the 24-year-old beat Taylor Fritz<\/a> and Holger Rune<\/a> en route the semi-finals at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Tiafoe saves 2 MPs, wins Miami thriller against Mensik Atmane upsets Auger-Aliassime in Miami March 23,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-203438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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