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Tiafoe and Mensik have had similar peaks and valleys over the past year. Last July, the American reached a season-high No. 11; a month later, the Czech rose to a career-high No. 16. From there, though, their seasons went south. Wins were hard to come by, and their rankings dropped\u2014all the way to No. 30 in Tiafoe\u2019s case.<\/p>\n
What both guys needed, it seemed, was a couple months off and a fresh start. So far in 2026, Tiafoe has gone 13-6, made the final at the 500 in Acapulco, and cracked the Top 20 again. Mensik, meanwhile, is 14-5, with a title in Auckland. He hit a career-high No. 12 this month.<\/p>\n
Tiafoe credits new coach Mark Kovacs for toughening up his training<\/p>\n
\u201cI got a little bit of a drill sergeant right now in Mark,\u201d he says of Kovacs. \u201cIf you have a coach that\u2019s stern and on you, man, you\u2019re like, \u2018I\u2019ve got to wake up, and I gotta do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s starting to come together, and it feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Before each day’s play at the Miami Open, we’ll preview three must-stream matches, on the Tennis Channel app. Jakub Mensik vs. Frances Tiafoe Tiafoe and Mensik have had similar peaks and valleys over the past year. Last July, the American reached a season-high No. 11; a month later, the Czech rose to a career-high No. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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