“I am still 19 and still learning a lot of things,” he told the ATP. “It is my second year on the Tour and I am very young and the newcomer. Playing against the best players in the world is always what I wanted and now I can see I can compete against them, beat them consistently, it is something I like.”
Mensik was rock solid against both Bublik and Shelton, breaking two of the game’s biggest servers a combined seven times to earn his biggest result thus far on clay.
All of this is simply part of the plan for the 6’4” Mensik, who confidently promised his Miami title—which saw him score victories over BNP Paribas Open Jack Draper, No. 3 seed Taylor Fritz, and the one-and-only Novak Djokovic—was only “the first of many.”
“It’s just the beginning,” Mensik reaffirmed. “I know there’s a lot more to come if I keep working the same way. If I keep giving 100 per cent.”
