Jakub Penik, 19 years old, Shocks novak djokovic with Miami open upset

Miami Gardens, FLA. – Novak djokovic They face a series of obstacles on Sunday in the Miami Open final: delay more than 5 ½ hours before the match, eye infection and a slippery court due to a high level of moisture after the rain.

However, the largest roadblock was youth and the power of 6-Naha-4 Jakub Fascinateswho overcame 37-year-old Serb in two Tiebreakers 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) to win his first ATP title.

On the 54th place entering the tournament, the teenager of the Czech Republic went through Djokovic with Poise and the star 130 mph. He gathered 14 aces and broke only once. Mensik deposited the winner of the service at Match Point and fell on his back.

“You are the one I adored when I was young,” Mensik told Djokovic during the ceremony after a match that lasted 2 hours, 3 minutes. “I started playing tennis because of you.”

Mensik’s victory was spoiled by a party for Djokovic, who was looking for his 100 career title and a seventh record in Miami Open. Djokovic will have to wait while the teenager will look ready to join the elite.

“It’s a joyful moment for him and his family – an incredible tournament, the first of many,” Djokovic said. “I hurt me to admit it, you were better. You delivered the goods in moments of the clutch. For a young player like you, it’s a great feature.”

The crowd was hard for Djokovic, who had not played here since 2019. More than three-quarters of the fans were stuck despite a massive delay, sang “No-Vak!” And they sang his name across the critical parts of the match.

Djokovic, far from a favorite fan, here earlier in his career, greeted fans and said it was one of the hottest crowds he had ever had.

However, it seemed that the leader of men with 24 Grand Slam titles seemed to threaten his eye problem, with redness seen under the lid. Djokovic applied eye eyes during two crossings in the first set. It was not clear whether it affected his vision.

He also slipped twice during the set. The humidity reached 90% after the rain hours disrupted the card. Djokovic sweated abundantly and asked the judge for a bucket of sawdust to sprinkle with wet grip.

Mensik lost to Djokovic last October in Shanghai Masters in three hundred, but the young man said before the match that he was playing too nervously.

Mensik played his first ATP 1000 finals. He wasn’t 2 years when Djokovic won his first Miami Open title in 2007.

This time there were more fearlessness than in Shanghai. Mensik rose 3-0 with a morning break, but Djokovic disintegrated in 4-3, then held 4-4 after the fans sang his name.

Mensik held a 6-5 lead in a game that saw that Djokovic would take a doubles in a street that was chasing a drop. Mensik served it with his seventh ace.

In the first set of Tiebreak, Mensik was charged in advance 5-0. Mensik made a bouncy winner of the volley and Djokovic suppressed the routine forehand shot into the net to drop in 5-0. On the set, Mensik failed to break for the winner.

The match was scheduled for 15:00, but the players did not take the court until 20:37 for rain and organizers who decided to complete the final of the female doubles.

The rain on southern Florida started at 12:50 during the last female double Mirria Ava and Diana Janet against Cristina bucsa and Miyu katoThey lead 3-0 in the first set with Andreeva and SHNAIDER.

Women’s players returned to court at 17:30 after the rain stopped and the courts were prepared by the court. But the rain began a few minutes later before heating and the players with the umbrella left the court again.

The women returned to court an hour later and continued to play at 18:50 by Andreeva and Schnaider, the distance went, the third line-up of Tiebreaker 6-3, 6-7 (5), 10-2 prevailed.