Following a career-best run at Roland Garros, Australian No.1 Alex de Minaur is worked up to show his consideration to the grass-court swing.
Paris, France, 6 June 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Alex de Minaur is leaving Roland Garros along with his head held excessive.
The 25-year-old, who turned the primary Australian to progress to the boys’s singles quarterfinals on the clay-court Grand Slam event in 20 years, was upbeat after bowing out in opposition to world No.4 Alexander Zverev in Paris right now.
“Each time I step out on courtroom, I’m by no means going half-heartedly,” De Minaur mentioned. “I’m at all times going to go away my coronary heart on the market.
“I’m extraordinarily pleased with my efforts all through the 2 weeks. Even right now I feel I put up a hell of a struggle in hostile circumstances in opposition to a top quality opponent.”
De Minaur admitted the cooler temperatures throughout the night session at Courtroom Philippe-Chatrier didn’t assist his probabilities in opposition to the assured Zverev, who has superior to his fourth consecutive semifinal on the event.
“Zverev loves gradual circumstances. I feel it’s no secret,” the world No.11 mentioned. “His finest floor is the clay. You place that plus an evening match, clearly somebody like myself it’s a bit bit tougher to penetrate and damage him on the market.”
“(However) I’m nonetheless proud of the best way I confirmed up.”
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De Minaur is now trying ahead “to leaping on the grass”.
“I certain hope I’m not working as a lot on the grass,” he smiled. “I’ll do my finest to attempt to dictate a bit bit extra, and I’m hoping that my ball goes to penetrate a bit bit extra. However yeah, I’m excited for the grass, excited to, you understand, let the floor assist me out a bit bit on the market.”
De Minaur was a boys’ singles finalist at Wimbledon in 2016. He additionally received an ATP grass-court singles title at Eastbourne in 2021 and was a finalist on the prestigious Queen’s Membership final 12 months.
“It’s at all times a terrific a part of the season for me,” he mentioned. “We’ll see the way it goes this 12 months, as a result of I’ve by no means gone so deep right here in French, so hopefully that takes quite a lot of momentum and confidence on to the grass.”
De Minaur might return to clay subsequent month, with the Olympic Video games to be held at Roland Garros.
The Australian Olympic tennis workforce, which De Minaur is prone to be a part of, might be confirmed in coming weeks.
“I confirmed that I’m completely succesful,” De Minaur mentioned of his new clay-court prowess. “It type of exhibits that there’s no motive why I can’t placed on a great displaying (on the Olympics) and carry out and win matches. I’ll be trying ahead to it. I feel it will likely be a bit bit hotter, so it needs to be enjoyable.”
Within the meantime, De Minaur’s speedy focus is on taking a well-earned break.
“We’ll in all probability get on the golf course the subsequent couple of days, play some golf,” he mentioned of his plans.
“So I’ll (quickly) be on the grass on a golf course and on the grass on a tennis courtroom.”
Aussies in motion – Roland Garros
RESULTS
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
[4] Alexander Zverev (GER) d [11] Alex de Minaur (AUS) 6-4 7-6(5) 6-4
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