{"id":508731,"date":"2026-02-19T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508731"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:17:05","slug":"mensik-eliminates-sinner-in-doha-to-reach-the-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mensik-eliminates-sinner-in-doha-to-reach-the-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mensik eliminates Sinner in Doha to reach the semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakub Mensik secured the biggest triumph in his career after defeating world number 2 Jannik Sinner 2-1 sets in Doha and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the tournament in the Middle East. Mensik reached back-to-back \u00bd finals in Qatar, as that was his 10th consecutive victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech player needed a tiebreak to win the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set as the set finished without breaks, and Jakub triumphed 7-3 points in the tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sinner bounced back in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set and won it comfortably 6-2 as the Italian had 2 break points and converted them both, while Mensik had only 1 chance to break his opponent\u2019s serve, but Jannik saved it.<\/p>\n<p>In the deciding set, Jakub was the better player, and this time, Mensik had 2 break chances and converted them both, while Sinner was left with only 1 break opportunity, but failed to convert it, and the world number 6 won 6-3 in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set and advanced to the semis in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>For a place in the final, Mensik will face world number 40 Arthur Fils from France, who beat Jiri Lehecka in straight sets earlier today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIGGEST. CAREER. WIN.<\/p>\n<p>An inspired Jakub Mensik takes out World No.2 Sinner!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mensik_jakub_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mensik_jakub_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QatarExxonMobilOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarExxonMobilOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mfc6mXqV4E\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mfc6mXqV4E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/2024600158911037847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakub Mensik secured the biggest triumph in his career after defeating world number 2 Jannik Sinner 2-1 sets in Doha and advanced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23438,17625],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[23439,18543],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Jakub had the biggest win in his professional tennis career.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508733,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508731\/revisions\/508733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508731"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508731"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}