17-year-old qualifier Mensik stuns Barrere to become youngest to win US Open match since 2014
Jakub Mensik won against Gregoire Barrere 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2 on Monday afternoon and will face the winner of the match between Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 18 seed, and French qualifier Titouan Droguet in the next round
Qualifier Jakub Mensik advanced to the second round of the US Open by winning against Frenchman Gregoire Barrere 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-2 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Monday afternoon.
In doing so, the 17-year-old gained his first ever win on the ATP Tour, becoming the youngest ATP player to win a match at the US Open since Coric in 2014.
Mensik, ranked No 206, will face the winner of the match between Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 18 seed, and French qualifier Titouan Droguet next.
New York (Grand Slam), other first-round matches (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000, most recent results first):
- Carlos Alcaraz vs. Dominik Koepfer
- Yannick Hanfmann vs. Jannik Sinner
- Taro Daniel vs. Gael Monfils
- Timofey Skatov vs. Alex De Minaur
- Yibing Wu vs. Dusan Lajovic
- Nicolas Moreno De Alboran vs. Lorenzo Sonego
- Daniel Elahi Galan vs. Daniel Evans
- Lloyd Harris vs. Guido Pella
- Emil Ruusuvuori vs. Andrey Rublev
- Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Hubert Hurkacz
- Radu Albot vs. Jack Draper
- Stan Wawrinka vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
- Tomas Martin Etcheverry vs. Otto Virtanen
- Botic van de Zandschulp vs. Jordan Thompson
- Facundo Diaz Acosta vs. John Isner
- Sebastian Baez vs. Borna Coric
- Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
- Karen Khachanov vs. Michael Mmoh
- Albert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Alex Michelsen
- Alex Molcan vs. Grigor Dimitrov
- Andy Murray vs. Corentin Moutet
- Daniel Altmaier vs. Constant Lestienne
- Alexander Shevchenko vs. Cameron Norrie
- Daniil Medvedev vs. Attila Balazs
- Diego Schwartzman vs. Arthur Rinderknech
- Ugo Humbert vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Nicolas Jarry vs. Luca Van Assche
- James Duckworth vs. Felipe Meligeni Alves
- Max Purcell vs. Christopher O’Connell
- Alexander Zverev vs. Aleksandar Vukic
- Jason Kubler vs. Matteo Arnaldi
- Tallon Griekspoor vs. Arthur Fils
- Alexandre Muller vs. Novak Djokovic
- Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Milos Raonic
- Hugo Dellien vs. Borna Gojo
- Quentin Halys vs. Benjamin Bonzi
- SoonWoo Kwon vs. Christopher Eubanks
- Roman Safiullin vs. Marco Cecchinato
- Bernabe Zapata Miralles vs. Ethan Quinn: monday
- Sho Shimabukuro vs. Hugo Gaston
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Mackenzie McDonald
- Dominic Stricker vs. Alexei Popyrin
- Aslan Karatsev vs. Jiri Lehecka: monday
- Tommy Paul vs. Stefano Travaglia: monday
- Steve Johnson vs. Taylor Fritz: monday
- Jiri Vesely vs. Enzo Couacaud: monday
- Lorenzo Musetti vs. Titouan Droguet: monday
- Zachary Svajda vs. Francisco Cerundolo: monday
- Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Juan Pablo Varillas: monday
- Marton Fucsovics vs. Sebastian Korda: monday
- Laslo Djere (32) beat Brandon Nakashima: 7-5, 6-4, 6-4
- Rinky Hijikata vs. Pavel Kotov: monday
- Frances Tiafoe (10) beat Learner Tien (WC): 6-2, 7-5, 6-1
- Casper Ruud (5) beat Emilio Nava (Q): 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5)
- Roberto Carballes Baena beat Holger Rune (4): 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
- Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (21) beat Marcos Giron: 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
- Dominic Thiem beat Alexander Bublik (25): 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
- Ben Shelton beat Pedro Cachin: 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
- Juan Manuel Cerundolo beat Ilya Ivashka: 2-6, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
- Sebastian Ofner beat Nuno Borges: 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4
- Fabian Marozsan beat Richard Gasquet: 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (1), 6-2
- Adrian Mannarino (22) beat Yosuke Watanuki: 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 7-5
- Zhizhen Zhang beat J.J. Wolf: 7-5, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 4-6, 6-3