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Alex de Minaur

de Minaur at the 2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy
Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	Alicante, Spain
Born	(1999-02-17) 17 February 1999 (age 19)[1] Sydney, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)[1]
Coach	Adolfo Gutierrez
Prize money	US$1,486,516[1]
Singles
Career record	30–28
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 29 (7 January 2019)
Current ranking	No. 29 (7 January 2019)[2]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2017)
French Open	1R (2017, 2018)
Wimbledon	3R (2018)
US Open	3R (2018)
Doubles
Career record	1–7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 605 (16 July 2018)
Current ranking	No. 673 (12 November 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2018)
Last updated on: 12 November 2018.

Alex de Minaur^[1] (/də mɪˈnɔːr/ də mih-NOR;^[3]Spanish: Álex de Miñaur,^[4]pronounced [ˈaleɡz ðe miˈɲauɾ];^[a] born 17 February 1999) is an Australian-Spanish tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 29 achieved in January 2019. He is currently the second youngest player ranked in the top 100^[5] and the highest ranked Australian male player in singles.^[6]

Personal life

de Minaur was born in Sydney, Australia. His father, Anibal, is Uruguayan and his mother, Esther, is Spanish.^[7] de Minaur has both Australian and Spanish nationality.^[8][9] His father owned an Italian restaurant on George Street in Sydney where he met Esther when she began working there as a waitress.^[10] de Minaur has two sisters and a brother — Cristina, Sara and Dominic.^[10][11]

He spent the first five years of his life in Australia before relocating to Alicante, Spain.^[12] de Minaur returned to Australia when he was 13 years old but returned to Spain three years later after the restaurant owned by his parents closed after over two decades in business and as his father owned a few car washes in Spain.^[7][10] de Minaur has stated that he has always felt a strong bond with Australia even though he has lived most of his life in Spain. In 2017, he told the Sydney Morning Herald "I used to represent Spain but I always felt I was Australian. As soon as we moved back here again that was the first thing I wanted to do — play for Australia."^[13]

de Minaur is fluent in English and Spanish and also speaks some French.^[14]

Junior tennis career

de Minaur began playing tennis at four years old.^[15] He has been coached by Adolfo Gutierrez since he was nine years old and living in Alicante.^[7] de Minaur reached a career-high ranking of 2 on the juniors circuit and won the 2016 Australian Open boys' doubles title alongside Blake Ellis.^[16][17]

Professional career

2015–16

de Minaur competing in the boys' singles at the 2015 US Open

de Minaur made his professional debut in July 2015 at the Spain F22, reaching the quarterfinals. He was given a wildcard into the qualifying rounds of the 2016 Australian Open, but lost in round one. de Minaur them spent the majority of the 2016 season playing on the ITF circuit in Spain, reaching two finals. He made his first ATP Challenger Tour final in Eckental, Germany after qualifying.

2017: Grand Slam debut

de Minaur commenced the year at the Brisbane International, where he defeated Mikhail Kukushkin and Frances Tiafoe in qualifying to reach his first ATP main draw. He lost in the first round to Mischa Zverev. The following week he received a wildcard into the Apia International Sydney where he defeated world number 46 Benoît Paire to claim his first Tour-level win. In the second round, he retired after the first set against Andrey Kuznetsov. de Minaur made his Grand Slam debut at the 2017 Australian Open after receiving a wildcard. He faced Gerald Melzer in the first round and won in five sets after saving a match point in the fourth set.^[18] He lost to Sam Querrey in round 2. In February, de Minaur reached round 2 of the Launceston Challenger, defeating the number 1 seed Go Soeda in round 1. In March, de Minaur lost in the final round of qualifying for Indian Wells, before returning to the Challenger circuit.

In May, de Minaur made his French Open debut after being awarded a wildcard. He lost the opening round to Robin Haase in straight sets.^[19] In June, de Minaur lost in the first round of Nottingham and Ilkley Challengers and the second round of Wimbledon qualifying. In July, de Minaur won the Portugal F11 Futures and reached the final of the Castilla y León Challenger. de Minaur was awarded a wildcard into the 2017 US Open, losing in round one to Dominic Thiem. From September to November, de Minaur played a number of Challenger events in Europe, reaching two quarterfinals.

In December, de Minaur won the Australian Open play off for a main draw wildcard into the 2018 Australian Open.^[20] He finished the year with a singles ranking of 208.

2018: Breakthrough

de Minaur at the 2018 Citi Open

de Minaur commenced the year at the Brisbane International after receiving a wildcard into the main draw.^[21] He defeated American Steve Johnson in straight sets, before scoring the biggest win of his career to date by beating world number 24 Milos Raonic in straight sets.^[22] He then defeated qualifier Michael Mmoh in the quarterfinals before losing to Ryan Harrison in the semifinals.^[23] de Minaur is the lowest ranked player and the youngest to reach the semifinals of the men's draw in the Brisbane International's 10-year history.^[24] de Minaur received a special exempt spot in the main draw of the Sydney event, where he consecutively eliminated Fernando Verdasco, Damir Džumhur and Feliciano López to reach his second ATP Tour semifinal, a week after he reached his first in Brisbane. de Minaur became the youngest player to play in two consecutive ATP semifinals since Rafael Nadal in 2005.^[25] He beat Frenchman Benoît Paire in the semifinals to meet Daniil Medvedev in the final.^[26] de Minaur lost the final in three sets, having won the opener.^[27] At the 2018 Australian Open, de Minaur lost in the first round to Tomáš Berdych, but took a set off of the 19th seed. In March, after having previously made his Davis Cup debut, de Minaur lost in the second round of Indian Wells to eventual champion Juan Martín del Potro before qualifying for and losing in the first round of Miami. In April, de Minaur reached his third Challenger final at the 2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open.

He was awarded a wildcard into the 2018 French Open,^[28] but lost in the first round to British 16th seed Kyle Edmund.^[29] Following this, he made two consecutive Challenger finals, losing to Jérémy Chardy at Surbiton, before defeating Dan Evans in straight sets to claim his first Challenger-level title at the Nottingham Open.^[30] He saw his best results to date at a major at Wimbledon, defeating 29th seed and French Open semifinalist Marco Cecchinato and Pierre-Hugues Herbert to reach the third round, where he fell to world number one and second seed Rafael Nadal.

In Washington, he defeated Vasek Pospisil, 11th seed Steve Johnson, 8th seed and Australian Open semifinalist Chung Hyeon and received a walkover over Andy Murray to reach the semifinals where he faced Andrey Rublev. de Minaur saved four match points while down 2–6 in the second set tiebreak, winning six points in a row to win it 8–6. He then won the final set 6–4 to reach his first ATP 500 final against Alexander Zverev, in which he went down 4–6, 2–6. This run saw him enter the top 50 for the first time.

In August, de Minaur played at the Winston-Salem Open where he was the 15th seed. He lost in the first round to Daniil Medvedev. At the US Open, de Minaur defeated Taro Daniel and Frances Tiafoe before losing to 7th seed Marin Čilić in 5 sets. In October, de Minaur replaced Nick Kyrgios as Australia's highest ranked male singles player.^[6]

National representation

Davis Cup

de Minaur made his Davis Cup debut for Australia in February 2018, at the age of 18. He faced then world number 5 Alexander Zverev from Germany in the opening rubber and fell just short of a spectacular upset, losing in a fifth-set tiebreaker after leading 3–0, 40–Ad. in the decider.^[31]

ATP career finals

Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jan 2018	Sydney International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Daniil Medvedev	6–1, 4–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	Aug 2018	Washington Open, United States	500 Series	Hard	Alexander Zverev	2–6, 4–6

Next Gen Finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Nov 2018	Next Generation ATP Finals, Italy	Hard (i)	Stefanos Tsitsipas	4–2, 1–4, 3–4(3–7), 3–4(3–7)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 8 (2–6)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2016	Spain F4, Murcia	Futures	Clay	Steven Diez	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2	May 2016	Spain F14, Vic	Futures	Clay	Jaume Munar	6–7(5–7), 5–7
Loss	0–3	Nov 2016	Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Steve Darcis	4–6, 2–6
Win	1–3	Jul 2017	Portugal F11, Póvoa de Varzim	Futures	Hard	Frederico Ferreira Silva	6–1, 2–6, 6–2
Loss	1–4	Aug 2017	Segovia, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Jaume Munar	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1–5	Apr 2018	Alicante, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Pablo Andújar	6–7(5–7), 1–6
Loss	1–6	Jun 2018	Surbiton, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Jérémy Chardy	4–6, 6–4, 2–6
Win	2–6	Jun 2018	Nottingham, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Dan Evans	7–6(7–4), 7–5

Doubles: 3 (2–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2016	Spain F8, Madrid	Futures	Hard	Carlos Boluda-Purkiss	Carlos Gómez-Herrera Akira Santillan	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–1	May 2016	Spain F12, Saint-Dizier	Futures	Clay	Carlos Boluda-Purkiss	Ramkumar Ramanathan David Vega Hernández	3–6, 1–6
Win	2–1	Jul 2017	Portugal F11, Póvoa de Varzim	Futures	Hard	Roberto Ortega Olmedo	Edward Bourchier Daniel Nolan	6–2, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	2016	Wimbledon	Grass	Denis Shapovalov	6–4, 1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Win	2016	Australian Open	Hard	Blake Ellis	Lukáš Klein Patrik Rikl	3–6, 7–5, [12–10]

Performance timeline

Current through the 2018 Rolex Paris Masters

Singles

Notes

References

External links

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  Alex de Minaur at the Association of Tennis Professionals


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  Alex de Minaur at the International Tennis Federation

Awards
Preceded by Denis Shapovalov (Star of Tomorrow)	ATP Newcomer of the Year 2018	Succeeded by Incumbent