He thought the text message from Novak Djokovic was a prank. Three years later, Jakub Mensik didn't just meet his hero—he dethroned him. Here is the story of the Czech teenager shaking up the tennis hierarchy.
He didn't just break the speed limit with his 150 mph serve; he broke the unspoken rules of tennis etiquette. And the sport loves him for it.
While the modern ATP tour resembles a heavy artillery contest, one American insists on bringing a scalpel to the gunfight. Why Sebastian Korda's 'silent' tennis is the ultimate tactical glitch in a power-obsessed era.
He hits flatter than a pancake and moves like he's late for a train. Yet, Ugo Humbert has become the ATP's most unsolvable puzzle. Here is how the Frenchman turned tactical anarchy into a weapon of mass destruction.