De Minaur and a step as historic as it is unprecedented in the Australian Open

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Alex de Minaur (No. 8 in the ATP ranking) took a historic step in his career by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time. The Australian tennis player defeated the young American Alex Michelsen (42nd) 6-0, 7-6 (5), 6-3 and continues at a great level.

The match against Michelsen started in dominant fashion for De Minaur, who won the first eight games of the match. However, the North American reacted in the second set and forced the Oceanic to maintain concentration and fight until the tiebreak. Already in the third, the local once again dominated with authority.

With this victory, Francisco Cerúndolo’s executioner remains undefeated in matches against players with a lower ranking than his in this tournament. And in the next round will have to face nothing more and nothing less than the No. 1 in the world, Jannik Sinner.

In turn, De Minaur became the 35th Australian to reach this stage in Melbournejoining figures such as Lleyton Hewitt and Nick Kyrgios. He is only the third to achieve this since 2005. And now he has completed the quarterfinals in all the Grand Slams, since this tournament was his unfinished business.

“There is nothing I want more than to play well here in Australia in front of my people”he declared excitedly after his victory. Now, he will think about how to beat the Italian Sinner, whom he still He has not been able to win even a set in the nine games they played..

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