{"id":980007,"date":"2026-06-02T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=980007"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:34:41","slug":"kraj-za-novakovog-dzelata-mensik-srusio-fonseku-za-prvo-grend-slem-polufinale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/kraj-za-novakovog-dzelata-mensik-srusio-fonseku-za-prvo-grend-slem-polufinale\/","title":{"rendered":"The end for Novak's \"executioner\": Men\u0161\u00edk knocks out Fonseca for first Grand Slam semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Czech won in three sets \u2013 6:4, 6:3, 7:6 (3) in a match that lasted two hours and 47 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mensik gets the win on his 7th match point \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V2WeEKAc90\">pic.twitter.com\/V2WeEKAc90<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/2061921506691555341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men\u0161ik served exceptionally well in the first two sets, not allowing his opponent a single break point, and one break was enough for him to take a big 2:0 lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fonseca has already turned a 0-2 deficit twice in this tournament, against Dino Pri\u017emi\u0107 and Novak \u0110okovi\u0107, and it seemed that he was heading towards that when he opened the third set with 2-0. However, Jakub quickly returned the break and turned it around to 3-2. At 3-3, the Brazilian made a break again, but did not save it, as he missed the opportunity at 5-4 to reduce to 2-1. In the marathon game, he missed a set point, and Men\u0161\u00edk realized the fifth break point and leveled at 5-5. In the 11th game, the Czech neutralized the break chance and took a 6-5 lead. Another game followed that lasted over 12 minutes, in which Fonseca saved as many as six match points and fought for a tie-break. However, Men\u0161\u00edk celebrated in the 13th game with a 7-3 victory and advanced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His next opponent will be Alexander Zverev, who also eliminated Spaniard Rafael Hodaro in three sets.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakub Men\u0161ik plasirao se u svoje prvo grend slem polufinale, po\u0161to je ve\u010deras na &#8222;Filip \u0160atrijeu&#8220; sru\u0161io &#8222;d\u017eelata&#8220; Novaka \u0110okovi\u0107a, talentovanog Brazilca \u017doaa Fonseke. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":980011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17559,22922,27351],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-980007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-jakub-mensik","tag-rolan-garos","tag-zoao-fonseka"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980013,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980007\/revisions\/980013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980007"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=980007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}