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·Masters·HardJakub Mensik defeated Rinky Hijikata 6-3, 6-4 — Cincinnati Open 2026 R32.
Rinky Hijikata and Jakub Mensik: Jakub Mensik leads 1–0 across 1 recorded meeting.
The serve settled it. Mensik held all 10 of his service games and faced a single break point all afternoon, welding 13 aces to 84 percent of first-serve points won, while Hijikata took just 16 percent of return points against that first ball. The 14th seed, who needed a third-set tiebreak to get past Bellucci in the previous round, broke in game 2 for 2-0 and again in game 6 for 5-1, and was done in 86 minutes. Tirante, No. 65, comes next.