Alex de Minaur survives a battle with the weather and a big-hitting German to make it through to the last 16 of the French Open.
Alex de Minaur has hailed his back-to-the-wall triumph at the French Open against an inspired big-hitting opponent, and in the face of another mentally draining rain delay, as one of his very best.
On another grey Paris morning, the "Demon" had a devil of a job coping with a rejuvenated 34-year-old giant playing lights-out tennis as he lost the first set and was reeling at 1-3 down in the second. He fought back to take the second set but was 2-0 down in the third when the rain came for the fifth straight day at this trying Roland Garros.
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