Alex de Minaur enters this year’s Wimbledon championships as the No.9 seed and with genuine title aspirations after an extraordinary 20-month surge up the rankings.
There was widespread admiration for what he had achieved as recently as two years ago, but often because those same people believed he was not quite good enough.Fuelled by the doubters, Australia’s best tennis player – who calls himself his harshest critic – had to first win his own mind over. He has done that and more in an incredible 20-month period where he transformed from a relative also-ran into a top-10 star with legitimate grand slam title claims.
“I love proving people wrong and ultimately, that’s what I’m trying to do – just keep on improving. I knew my career was never going to be just one day I wake up, and I’m a top-10 player.“I knew it was going to be gradual and a lot of work and improvement, but it makes being where I am much sweeter – and still people are saying that it’s my peak, so I’m going to enjoy proving people wrong .
That love match has increasingly dominated headlines, put into overdrive by them twice this year winning singles titles in the same week. The Australian star even fielded lighthearted questions ahead of this year’s Australian Open on when he would ask Boulter to marry him.“I love Wimbledon, and it’s always been special. It’s one of those childhood dreams to do well here,” he said.
However, de Minaur has not looked beyond Duckworth, a mindset borne out of past grand slam experiences, including a tough defeat to Italian Matteo Berrettini in the second round at Wimbledon last year.
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