

What Time Will Jakub Mensik Play Against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina?
Mensik and Fokina are on the Day 6 Schedule at Australian Open 2025 on Friday 17 January. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
JAKUB MENSIK (CZE) vs. ALEJANDRO DAVIDOVICH FOKINA (ESP)
Head-to-head: Tied 1-1
This will be the 3rd meeting between Jakub Mensik and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. Their previous matches took place on a hard court last year. Mensik won in Doha with a 76(3) 64 score, while Davidovich Fokina won in Dubai when Mensik retired due to an elbow injury.
Mensik, 19 years old, is currently ranked 48th in the ATP rankings, while Davidovich Fokina, 25 years old, is ranked 66th. Neither player has won any titles. Mensik has a career Grand Slam record of 7-4, compared to Davidovich Fokina’s record of 25-18. In Australian Open matches, Mensik has a record of 3-1, while Davidovich Fokina has a record of 6-4.
Mensik has a career record of 34-23, with a 26-15 record on hard courts. In 2025, he has a record of 6-2, with a 6-2 record on hard courts. Mensik has a career five-set record of 1-5 and has made one comeback from being down 0-2.
Mensik has a career tiebreak record of 22-12, with a 3-3 record in 2025. If Mensik wins this match, he will reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open for the first time and achieve his best Grand Slam result. This is his second Australian Open appearance and fifth overall Grand Slam.
If Mensik and fellow Czech player Learner Tien both reach the round of 16, it will be the first time multiple teenagers have achieved this at the Australian Open since 2007. Additionally, it will be the first time since 2022 at any Grand Slam, when Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune reached the round of 16.
Mensik is aiming to become the 12th Czech man in the Open Era to reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open. His compatriot, Jiri Lehecka, is also bidding to reach the round of 16 for the second time, while Tomas Machac is hoping to achieve this for the first time.
If at least two of Mensik, Lehecka, and Machac win their matches, it will be the first time in the Open Era that three Czech men have reached the round of 16 at a Grand Slam. If this happens, it will also be the 19th time overall that multiple Czech men have achieved this at a Grand Slam and the first time since the 2016 Wimbledon Championships.
In this year’s Australian Open, Mensik defeated qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili and No. 6 seed Casper Ruud to reach the third round.
Miomir Kecmanovic
Marcos Giron
Matteo Arnaldi
Learner Tien
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Jessica Pegula
Alexander Zverev
Francisco Cerundolo
Lorenzo Sonego
Ugo Humbert
Marta Kostyuk
Amanda Anisimova
Taylor Fritz
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Pedro Martinez Portero
Diego Sebastian Schwartzman
Reilly Opelka
Brandon Nakashima
Jan-Lennard Struff
Hugo Grenier
Elena Rybakina
Iga Swiatek
Ons Jabeur
Jelena Ostapenko
Zhizhen Zhang
Hubert Hurkacz
Hamad Medjedovic
Daniel Altmaier
Cameron Norrie
Alex Michelsen
Davidovich Fokina, 25 years old, is also aiming to reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open for the first time. This is his fifth appearance at the Australian Open and 19th overall Grand Slam.
Davidovich Fokina is looking to become the 19th Spanish man in the Open Era to reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open. He would be the fourth active Spanish male player to achieve this, joining Roberto Bautista Agut, Pablo Carreno Busta, and Carlos Alcaraz.
Overall, Davidovich Fokina is bidding to become the 24th Spanish man in the Open Era to reach the round of 16 at a Grand Slam on four or more occasions. He would be the fourth active Spanish male player to achieve this, along with Bautista Agut, Alcaraz, and Carreno Busta.
If Davidovich Fokina, Alcaraz, and Roberto Carballes Baena all reach the round of 16 at the Australian Open, it will be the first time in a while that three Spanish men have achieved this feat at the tournament. The last time this happened was in 2019 when Bautista Agut, Carreno Busta, and Rafael Nadal all reached the round of 16. It would also be the first time that three Spanish men have reached the round of 16 at any Grand Slam since the 2022 US Open.
Davidovich Fokina reached the third round of the Australian Open this year after defeating Shang Juncheng in the first round and No. 29 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round.
By reaching the third round, Davidovich Fokina has achieved his best result at the Australian Open. Previously, he had reached the second round in all four of his previous appearances at the tournament. His best Grand Slam result overall is reaching the quarterfinals at the 2021 French Open.
Notably, Davidovich Fokina won his five-set match against Auger-Aliassime in the second round, marking his first successful comeback from being down 0-2. He has an overall record of 8-7 in five-set matches at the Tour level.
Davidovich Fokina had a career-high ranking of No. 21 in August 2023, and he is currently ranked 66th. He made his Davis Cup debut for Spain in 2022 and has a 1-5 overall win-loss record in the competition.
Both Mensik and Davidovich Fokina have had notable achievements in their careers and will be looking to advance to the fourth round of the Australian Open.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Mensik will win.
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