{"id":199240,"date":"2026-01-25T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=199240"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:57:29","slug":"shocking-decision-mensik-withdraws-from-australian-open-djokovic-advances-directly-to-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/shocking-decision-mensik-withdraws-from-australian-open-djokovic-advances-directly-to-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKING DECISION: Men\u0161\u00edk Withdraws from Australian Open, Djokovic Advances Directly to Quarterfinals!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serbian tennis star Novak \u0110okovi\u0107<\/strong> has advanced directly to the quarterfinals<\/strong> of the Australian Open after his opponent, Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk<\/strong>, decided to withdraw from the tournament, announcing the news himself on his Instagram profile. A shocking move that no one saw coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On paper, Men\u0161\u00edk was expected to be \u0110okovi\u0107\u2019s toughest challenge<\/strong> at the tournament, especially after defeating the Serbian in the Miami final last year<\/strong>, shocking the tennis world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fans were eagerly anticipating the clash between \u0110okovi\u0107 and Men\u0161\u00edk<\/strong>, a meeting of the \u201cold school\u201d and \u201cnew school\u201d of tennis, but this time, it will not happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men\u0161\u00edk announced his decision in a post on Instagram, issuing a short statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“This is difficult to write. After doing everything we could to continue, I have to withdraw from the Australian Open due to an abdominal muscle injury that worsened during my recent matches. After long discussions with my team and doctors, we decided that I will not take the court tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I am disappointed, reaching the 4th round here for the first time is something I will carry with me for a long time. I felt the incredible energy of the crowd, and the atmosphere in Melbourne was truly special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to my team for being with me every step of the way and to everyone who sent messages and cheered me on \u2014 it means more than you realize. Now it\u2019s time to recover properly.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With Men\u0161\u00edk\u2019s withdrawal, \u0110okovi\u0107 advances directly to the Australian Open quarterfinals<\/strong> without playing the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Serbian tennis star Novak \u0110okovi\u0107 has advanced directly to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open after his opponent, Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk, decided to withdraw from the tournament, announcing the news himself on his Instagram profile. A shocking move that no one saw coming. On paper, Men\u0161\u00edk was expected to be \u0110okovi\u0107\u2019s toughest challenge at the tournament, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":199241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1508,251],"class_list":["post-199240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-australijan-open","tag-novak-dokovic-3","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199279,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199240\/revisions\/199279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}