Miami Open 2025 Day 10 Semi Final Recap

Day 10 on the 2025 Miami Open delivered two semi-finals at reverse ends of the age spectrum.

19-year-old Jakub Mensik thundered 25 aces to upset Taylor Fritz 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(4), whereas 37-year-old Novak Djokovic dispatched Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-3 with a serving clinic, touchdown a career-high 87% of his first serves.

Mensik, the third-lowest-ranked finalist in Miami historical past, received a grueling 27-shot rally to assist seal his tiebreak conquer Fritz, establishing a dream closing towards his childhood idol Djokovic, who’s one win from a file seventh Miami title and his a hundredth tour-level trophy.

Mensik appears like a serve bot with a giant future, whereas Djokovic’s 20-1 file in Miami after reaching the quarter-finals makes him the heavy favorite for Sunday’s closing. Beneath is a full recap, match stats, and highlights from Friday’s semi-finals.

Day Ten 2025 Miami Open Semi-Closing Outcomes

Winner
Loser
Scoreline

Jakub Mensik
Taylor Fritz (3)
7-6(4) 4-6 7-6(4)

Novak Djokovic (4)
Grigor Dimitrov (14)
6-2, 6-3

Mensik Outmanoeuvres Fritz

Jakub Mensik took out Taylor Fritz 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(4) to achieve his first ATP Masters 1000 closing and arrange a showdown with childhood hero Novak Djokovic.

Mensik has powered his approach by way of the draw, and he continued that development on Friday, thundering 25 aces and holding his nerve in two clutch tiebreaks to oust the hometown favorite,

The Czech couldn’t break Fritz’s serve all through the two-hour, 25-minute conflict, and the American saved the one two break factors he confronted within the third set.

Nonetheless, the tie-breaks have been the place Mensik discovered his recreation, profitable a grueling 27-shot rally on Fritz’s serve within the third set tie-break to arrange two match factors, changing the primary with a blistering ace.

In what was a servefest, I believed Fritz performed fairly effectively, however his forehand wasn’t as stable as he’d like. This yr, he’s not hit that shot so effectively, and whereas I feel it seemed higher in Miami, some key errors price him within the semifinal and that’s why Mensik was in a position to come out on prime.

As for Mensik, he’s an actual pressure along with his recreation, enormous serve, huge groundies however not the most effective mover on the market which I feel Novak will exploit within the closing.

The return was robust in the present day. We have been serving actually nice in the present day so he didn’t give me a chance to interrupt him. It was simply the tie-breaks for me that was the decider. I got here to point out my finest efficiency within the tie-breaks. Mensik on his win.

Between the 2 tie-breaks, I’ve to win certainly one of them. I’ve to play slightly bit higher. I feel once I’m taking part in effectively, once I’m profitable matches, it’s form of simply what I do. I pull by way of these conditions. So to only form of get out-toughed in two tie-breaks, it sucks. I did my job. I didn’t get damaged. I didn’t face a break level till the third set, so… it sucks. If the circumstances are quick sufficient and he’s serving effectively sufficient, he’s all the time going to be within the match. It’s going to be tight. He’s going to have a stable probability. I’m unsure as a result of I couldn’t return a serve, that doesn’t imply that Novak is just not going to have the ability to return a serve. It’s going to rely on that. Fritz on the loss.

Match Stats

Jakub Mensik
Taylor Fritz

Winners
40
39

Unforced Errors
37
34

Aces
25
14

Double Faults
4
3

1st Serve %
73% (74/101)
69% (79/114)

1st Serve Factors Received
82% (61/74)
80% (63/79)

2nd Serve Factors Received
52% (14/27)
46% (16/35)

Break Factors Saved
50% (1/2)
100% (2/2)

Service Video games
94% (16/17)
100% (17/17)

1st Return Factors Received
20% (16/79)
18% (13/74)

2nd Return Factors Received
54% (19/35)
48% (13/27)

Break Factors Received
0% (0/2)
50% (1/2)

Return Video games
0% (0/17)
6% (1/17)

Stress Factors
11% (1/9)
89% (8/9)

Service Factors
74% (75/101)
69% (79/114)

Return Factors
31% (35/114)
26% (26/101)

Whole Factors
51% (110/215)
49% (105/215)

Max Factors In A Row
5
4

Whole Video games
47% (16/34)
53% (18/34)

Max Video games In A Row
2
2

Djokovic Serves His Means Previous Dimitrov

Novak Djokovic is one win away from a file seventh Miami Open and his a hundredth tour-level trophy, dispatching Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-3 in a scientific 70-minute semi-final on Friday.

Djokovic’s serve was as soon as once more the cornerstone of his recreation. He landed 87% of his first serves (highest of his profession) and received 79% of these factors.

Dimitrov began effectively with a break within the first recreation of the match, however he shortly drained. As I anticipated, he seemed drained after his grueling quarter-final towards Francisco Cerundolo, throughout which he wanted medical help to depart the court docket and he dedicated 32 unforced errors.

It didn’t assist that he had received solely certainly one of 12 encounters heading in, both, and he had no solutions to Djokovic’s precision on the market, with Novak not making a single unforced error off his forehand.

Whereas I feel that stat is considerably deceptive, as he knew he didn’t have to tear the forehand, as Dimitrov wasn’t in a position to damage him from the baseline, staying excellent on a single shot at this degree is spectacular.

So far as my recreation goes, once more, serve was undoubtedly the spotlight of the match. I feel I used to be 83 per cent [first-serves made] final match, and I believed it will in all probability be troublesome to beat that, however in the present day 87 [per cent]. I don’t know what to say, I’ve been serving rather well, and hopefully I can proceed in the identical vogue as a result of that undoubtedly makes my life simpler on the court docket. Djokovic on his serving show.