PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah Update: Mensik stars in Shanghai, Tien makes move

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jakub-mensik/m0ni/overview'Jakub Mensik/a continued to impress on the ATP Tour at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/shanghai/5014/overview'Rolex Shanghai Masters/a, where he advanced to the quarter-finals at an ATP Masters 1000 event for the first time./ppThe big-hitting 19-year-old Czech fired past Top 10 stars a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andrey-rublev/re44/overview'Andrey Rublev/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/grigor-dimitrov/d875/overview'Grigor Dimitrov/a and also earned victories against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/pedro-martinez/mo44/overview'Pedro Martinez/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-shevchenko/s0h2/overview'Alexander Shevchenko/a at the hard-court event. Mensik then took the first set against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/novak-djokovic/d643/overview'Novak Djokovic/a before falling in three./p[ATP APP]pMensikrsquo;s result at the ATP Masters 1000 event consolidated his fourth-placed position (995 points) in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah. The Doha finalist is aiming to make his debut at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/next-gen-atp-finals/7696/overview'Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF/a, to be held from 18-22 December./ppAlongside his matchday success, Mensik practised in the pouring rain in Shanghai. Watch the video below of the teen hitting with countryman and former a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/next-gen-atp-finals/7696/overview'Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF/a finalist a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jiri-lehecka/l0bv/overview'Jiri Lehecka/a./pp/pdiv style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 100%;"div style="padding-top: 56.25%;"iframe src="https://players.brightcove.net/6057277721001/8gZSNwgH_default/index.html?videoId=6362945289112" allow="encrypted-media" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;"/iframe/div/divp /pstronga rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.atptour.com/en/rankings/next-gen-race" target="_blank"PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah/a/strong/ptable tbody tr tdstrongPlayernbsp;/strong/td tdstrongPoints/strongnbsp;/td /tr tr td1) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/arthur-fils/f0f1/overview'Arthur Fils/a/td td2105/td /tr tr td2) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-michelsen/m0qi/overview'Alex Michelsen/a/td td1145/td /tr tr td3) a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.atptour.com/en/players/juncheng-shang/s0re/overview" target="_blank"Shang Juncheng/a/td td1075/td /tr tr td4) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jakub-mensik/m0ni/overview'Jakub Mensik/a/td td995/td /tr tr td5) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/luca-van-assche/v0dz/overview'Luca Van Assche/a/td td458/td /tr tr td6) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/learner-tien/t0ha/overview'Learner Tien/a/td td427/td /tr tr td7) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/joao-fonseca/f0fv/overview'Joao Fonseca/a/td td365/td /tr tr td8) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/coleman-wong/w0bh/overview'Coleman Wong/a/td td305/td /tr tr td9) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/vilius-gaubas/g0fw/overview'Vilius Gaubas/a/td td292/td /tr tr td10) a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nishesh-basavareddy/b0nn/overview'Nishesh Basavareddy/a/td td280/td /tr /tbody/tablepFifth-placed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/luca-van-assche/v0dz/overview'Luca Van Assche/a (458 points) and sixth-placed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/learner-tien/t0ha/overview'Learner Tien/a (427 points) gave their chances of playing in Jeddah a major boost with impressive results on the ATP Challenger Tour. Frenchman Van Assche defeated a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/cameron-norrie/n771/overview'Cameron Norrie/a en route to the semi-finals in Roanne, while American Tien dispatched a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/bernard-tomic/ta46/overview'Bernard Tomic/a 6-0, 6-1 in the Fairfield final. Tien has won 14 of his past 16 matches on the ATP Challenger Tour./ppSecond-placed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-michelsen/m0qi/overview'Alex Michelsen/a (1,145 points) and third-placed Shang Juncheng (1,075 points) both earned first-round wins in Shanghai. American Michelsen beat Buyunchaokete, while Chinese lefty Shang overcame a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/coleman-wong/w0bh/overview'Coleman Wong/a. Wong is eighth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah and competes at the ATP 250 in Almaty this week./ppAmerican a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nishesh-basavareddy/b0nn/overview'Nishesh Basavareddy/a has jumped to 10th after two strong weeks on the Challenger Tour. The 19-year-old reached the final in Charleston before he won his maiden title at that level in Tiburon earlier this month./pp[NEWSLETTER FORM]/p