Australian tennis

Australia’s Alex de Minaur has had a massive win over world no. 1 Novak Djokovic at the United Cup. Embed from Getty Images The Australian’s opening match win setup his team to advance to the semifinals. de Minaur didn’t face a single break point on his way to a 6-4, 6-4 victory. It is the…

Australia’s world no. 12 Alex de Minaur has played one of his best matches to defeat USA’s world no. 10 Taylor Fritz at the United Cup. Embed from Getty Images de Minaur taking the match 6-4, 6-2 in one hour and 29 minutes. The win setup Australia’s charge into the quarterfinals. “I do know that…

The 2024 summer of tennis in Australia has started with the United Cup in Perth. For Australia it saw the Aussie team lose their opening contest against Great Britain. Cameron Norrie the world no. 18 got the better of Australia’s world no. 12 Alex de Minaur in a hard fought match. The Brit securing the…

Australia’s Marc Polmans was on the cusp of reaching his first ATP Masters 1000 tournament when it all went wrong for the 26-year-old from Melbourne. Polmans had won the first set 7-6(3) and was again in the breaker to seal the match and a place in his first-ever Masters 1000 tournament. In the second set,…

Australia’s Alex de Minaur faced 2021 US Open champion in the fourth round. de Minaur dominated the first set with two breaks of serve helping him take the opener 6-2. Medvedev lifted the tempo in the second set and was able to break in the tenth game to take the set 6-4. It was the…

Alex de Minaur has joined fellow Australian Rinky Hijikata in the fourth round at the US Open after easily accounting for Chile’s world no. 25 Nicolas Jarry. Embed from Getty Images de Minaur winning the match 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 45 minutes. The fourth round match will be against 2021 champion Daniil…

Embed from Getty Images Hijikata taking the match 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in 3 hours and 10 minutes. The Australian had reached the second round at the Australian Open earlier this year and in his only other Grand Slams singles lost first round at the US Open in 2022. Hijikata has of course tasted Grand…

Australia’s Max Purcell and Alexei Popyrin are into their first ever Masters series quarterfinals. Popyrin who had lost to Purcell in round two qualifying is making the most of his lucky loser entry. He had some help along the way when Nicolas Jarry withdrew from a second round match. Purcell backed up his win over…

Italy’s Jannik Sinner has taken the head to head record to 5-0 against Australia’s Alex de Minaur. In their first meeting back in 2019 it was Sinner that claimed the Next Gen ATP title, this time Sinner has claimed his first Masters level title at the expense of the Australian. Sinner had too much heat…