Ruud’s Major Wait Continues After Mensik Defeat

Mensik became the third player from Czechia in the 2000s to defeat a top-10 player at the Australian Open, after Tomas Berdych and Jiri Lehecka. He is also the third teenager to reach the quarter-finals at their first three ATP-level events of a season, after Rafael Nadal (2006) and Carlos Alcaraz (2023).