Alex de Minaur is unable to claim his second career title on grass, falling to top seed Carlos Alcaraz, who is set to regain the world number one spot on Monday ahead of Wimbledon.
abc.net.au/news/carlos-alcaraz-defeats-alex-deminaur-queens-club-final/102521956Australia's Alex de Minaur has fallen short in his bid to be the first Australian since Lleyton Hewitt in 2006 to lift the title at Queen's Club.
A pair of them in the fifth game of the second set sealed de Minaur's fate as two doubles in four points gave up the match-deciding break.It's not to say the match was without highlights. Alcaraz, who had his thigh strapped by the trainer between sets, is not getting ahead of himself though, with the figure of Novak Djokovic, who has won the last four men's singles championships at Wimbledon, looming large.
The 30-year-old beat in-form Austrian Sebastian Ofner, the tournament's top seed, 6-4, 6-4 in the final to demonstrate his readiness for another crack at a good run at Wimbledon where he made the last-16 in 2022."This grass court season has been good. I made the quarter-finals in Surbiton and I had a pretty tough match against Ugo Humbert in 's-Hertogenbosch .
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