{"id":14090,"date":"2024-02-24T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/qatar-open-jakub-mensik-beats-gael-monfils-to-become-the-tournaments-youngest-finalist\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:02:10","slug":"qatar-open-jakub-mensik-beats-gael-monfils-to-become-the-tournaments-youngest-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/qatar-open-jakub-mensik-beats-gael-monfils-to-become-the-tournaments-youngest-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: Jakub Mensik beats Gael Monfils to become the tournament&#8217;s youngest finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Teenager Jakub Mensik beat Gael Monfils to become the youngest player to reach the final of the Qatar Open.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mensik, 18, gained a key break at 4-3 in the third set before going on to hold serve as he won 6-4 1-6 6-3 in Doha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am speechless,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is amazing. Hopefully not the last one [final].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Czech, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/68355490\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beat Briton Andy Murray earlier in the week<\/a>, will face Russian Karen Khachanov in Saturday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mensik added: &#8220;I have to say this performance was one of the best in my entire life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am so glad I reached this level in the semis, so hopefully tomorrow I play like this. An amazing feeling with my first ATP final.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Khachanov came through his last-four test against Australia&#8217;s Alexei Popyrin 7-6 (14-12) 6-2 and is looking to win a sixth tour-level title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/68388202\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager Jakub Mensik beat Gael Monfils to become the youngest player to reach the final of the Qatar Open. Mensik, 18, gained a key break at 4-3 in the third set before going on to hold serve as he won 6-4 1-6 6-3 in Doha. &#8220;I am speechless,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is amazing. Hopefully not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14092,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions\/14092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}