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MIAMI, Fla. – Just as 19-year-old Alexandra Eala announed her arrival on the women’s side, so did 19-year-old Jakub Mensik on the men’s side.
Except Mensik went further. He wins in Miami, defeating a banged-up but full-effort Novak Djokovic in the final and leaping into the top 25 as a result.
It was one of many good results in Miami. But it will be the one that stands out; it was Mensik’s first career title. And he beat his idol – the man he says is the reason he started to play tennis – to do it.
The crazy part is that Jannik Sinner, who has played one tournament, still sits atop the race to Turin – and atop the regular rankings, by a significant margin.
For the complete, updated ATP rankings for Monday, click here.
Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): No. 10 =========No. 8 (Tsitsipas only made the third round in Miami, losing to Sebastian Korda. But it’s tight enough in the bottom half of the top 10 that it was worth two spots).
Arthur Fils (FRA): No. 18 =========No. 15 (Fils moves up to a career high, after making the quarterfinals in Miami and losing to – as it turned out – eventual champion Jakub Mensik).
Jakub Mensik (CZE): No. 54 =========No. 24 (The 19-year-old plays with the head of a 40-year-old. But he’s still a teenager with a Melbourne mullet. And now, he’s a Masters 1000 champion. It’s his first career ATP title. And it was a big one, as he proved mature beyond his years in handling not only the rain delays, and the occasion, but having his idol across the net from him. He’s now a top-25 player, and most people think that’s just the start).

Matteo Berrettini (ITA): No. 30 =========No. 27 (Berrettini is starting to look like himself again. And that’s great news for the sport. He narrowly lost an absolute epic to Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals).


Gabriel Diallo (CAN): No. 87 =========No. 81 (Diallo had good luck again, as he got into his second straight 1000 as a lucky loser. But he had bad luck against Arthur Fils (whom he had also played at Indian Wells). He twisted his ankle and had to retire in the second round. He’s in Bucharest this week starting his clay-court season).
Borna Coric (CRO): No. 112 =========No. 96 (The 28-year-old, a former world No. 12, has fallen off the radar in recent years. But he’s making his way on the Challenger circuit, winning in Lugano at the end of February, and in Thionville at the beginning of March. He won another in Zadar, Croatia during the first week of Miami and with that, he gets back into the top 100. Before that Lugano tournament, Coric’s ranking stood at No. 143.

Reilly Opelka (USA): No. 114 =========No. 104 (Opelka made the third round in Miami, losing to Tomas Machac but getting just a few points away from returning to the top 100 in his injury comeback).
Stan Wawrinka (SUI): No. 168 =========No. 161 (The week he celebrated his 40th birthday, Wawrinka’s ranking actually rose, as he made the quarterfinals at a Challenger in Naples).

Coleman Wong (HKG): No. 182 =========No. 170 (Wong, 20, was another wild card into the Miami open courtesy of agents IMG. And while his good friend from the Nadal Academy, Alexandra Eala, stole all the headlines, the kid from Hong Kong made the third round).
Nicolas Kicker (ARG): No. 715 =========No. 459 (The 32-year-old Argentine has made a lot of comebacks in his career – some for not so good reasons, others for injury. But he makes the Concepcion final and lops more than 250 spots off his ranking).

Hyeon Chung KOR): No. 676 =========No. 518 (Seven years ago, Chung was 21 and ranked in the top 20. It’s been a terrible ride ever since and he’s working on getting back up in a series of lowest-level ITFs in Japan. As those point come in, he’ll rise even more but it’s a long, long road).
Nick Kyrgios (AUS): No. 892 =========No. 633 (Kyrgios lost his opened in Indian Wells, and in the second round in Miami to Karen Khachanov. But despite continuing to feel pain in his wrist at least he’s trying to play).

Arthur Fils (FRA) (No. 15)
Jakub Mensik (CZE) (No. 24)
Zizou Bergs (BEL) (No. 50)
Joao Fonseca (BRA) (No. 59)
Jacob Fearnley (GBR) (No. 73)
Gabriel Diallo (CAN) (No. 82)
Jesper de Jong (NED) (No. 98)
Vit Kopriva (CZE) (No. 106)
Valentin Royer (FRA) (No. 116)
Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) (No. 120)
Eliot Spizziri (USA) (No. 129)
Ethan Quinn (USA) (No. 130)

Daniil Medvedev (RUS): No. 8 =========No. 11 (Medvedev was a semifinalist in Miami a year ago. This year, he lost a shocker in the second round to Jaume Munar and now is a rather pedetrian 12-7 on the season. He’s out of the top 10 for the first time since just before Wimbledon in 2019).
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL): No. 15 =========No. 18 (Dimitrov made the Miami semis, which was a terrific result considering how he began the season. But he was worn out from an absolute battle against Francisco Cerundolo in the quarterfinals – needing help to even get off the court – and didn’t have much left for Novak Djokovic. But he’d made the final last year, so just one fewer round meant a big loss of points).

Pedro Martinez (ESP): No. 40 =========No. 47 (Martinez won a $100K Challenger in Girona a year ago, but those points drop off as he loses in the first round of Miami to Luciano Darderi).
Nicolas Jarry (CHI): No. 47 =========No. 58 (Jarry, who missed both Indian Wells and Miami, was a a quarterfinalist in Miami a year ago).
Fabian Marozsan (HUN): No. 59 =========No. 80 (Maroszan got a tough draw in Miami, and went out in the first round to Gael Monfils. He was a quarterfinalist a year ago, so that puts a hurt on his ranking).

Daniel Evans (GBR): No. 183 =========No. 204 (Evans is out of the top 200 for the first time since Nov. 2018, after losing in the first round of the Napoli Challenger. The 34-year-old was ranked No. 42 a year ago. And somehow his slide seemed to happen when he – happily, we’ve no doubt – gave up defending a lot of ranking points last summer to play the Olympics with Andy Murray. Since then, he won back-to-back matches at the US Open, but none since. Not even in the main draws of Challengers).











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