{"id":170095,"date":"2026-01-25T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170095"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:46:08","slug":"novak-through-to-last-eight-in-melbourne-after-mensik-pulls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-through-to-last-eight-in-melbourne-after-mensik-pulls-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Mensik pulls out, Novak into last eight in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No.4 seed Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarter-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a> without stepping onto the court, after his opponent Jakub Mensik withdrew from the tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pair had been due to clash in the night session on Rod Laver Arena on Monday, but an abdominal injury has forced the rising Czech star to pull out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"209\"><strong>The Serbian tennis player will face Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 5) in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Wednesday.<\/strong> Musetti came through his match against Taylor Fritz (USA, 9) without major difficulties.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"211\" data-end=\"285\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It will be their 11th head-to-head meeting, with Novak holding a 9\u20131 lead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak advanced to the quarter-finals of the season\u2019s first Grand Slam event without taking the court, after his opponent Jakub Mensik withdrew from the tournament due to injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011992,101011735,93,101011740,101013459,101012051],"class_list":["post-170095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-fourth-round","tag-grand-slam","tag-jakub-mensik-en","tag-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170095"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170114,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170095\/revisions\/170114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}