With the prospect to achieve a primary quarterfinal at his house Grand Slam, a fiercely targeted Alex de Minaur is making ready to face Alex Michelsen at AO 2025.
Melbourne, Australia , 19 January 2025 | Sean A’Hearn
With only one set dropped in three 2025 matches, Alex de Minaur’s Australian Open path doesn’t get any simpler.
After stable wins over Dutchman Botic Van de Zandschulp and American Tristan Boyer, De Minaur was pushed towards No.31 seed, Francisco Cerundolo within the third spherical.
Now he faces rising younger American star, Alex Michelsen, who has been in red-hot kind himself, downing eleventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in his opening match and claiming his newest win over nineteenth seed Karen Khachanov.
Regardless of the difficult activity forward, many certified observers – together with former world No.1 Pat Rafter – consider the Michelsen match-up fits the Australian.
“I again him towards Michelsen. I do know Michelsen has a extremely large recreation [but] can he stick with it towards somebody like Alex?” Rafter stated.
“I feel it’s a foul match-up for Michelsen personally … if he can maintain it collectively, he may cause plenty of destruction, I feel, Michelsen. However I like Alex [de Minaur] there.”
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With their head-to-head file tied at one win apiece, De Minaur is effectively conscious of Michelsen’s highly effective recreation and robust kind coming into their fourth-round encounter.
“He’s been enjoying rather well. He’s a harmful opponent with plenty of confidence now. He’s taken some large scalps this week, so prepared for a battle,” the Sydneysider stated.
“He’s going to go on the market with no concern. I’m going to do my finest to make it tough for him.”
Whereas acknowledging he wasn’t at his finest towards Cerundolo, the eighth-seeded De Minaur believes he can take classes into his subsequent match towards world No.41 Michelsen.
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“Part of me knew that in some unspecified time in the future there was going to be all the time a match the place stress was going to be there and the nerves have been going to be there, type of the expectation was going to be there,” he conceded.
“I knew it was going to be part of it.
“I simply informed myself to go on the market, compete. I’d somewhat win ugly any day over shedding fairly, proper? Finally, I lived to battle one other day. My subsequent one I’ll make sure that I convey a greater stage,” the 25-year-old smiled.
Ought to “Demon” progress to a primary quarterfinal at his house Grand Slam, there’s a possible assembly with world No.1 and defending champion, Jannik Sinner, who subsequent faces gifted thirteenth seed Holger Rune.
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