Tennis: Alex de Minaur is assured a spot in the ATP Finals following the withdrawal of Novak Djokovic.
Demon qualifies for ATP Finals | 01:25Residing in Australia for the entirety of 2024 for the first time in many years, Davis Cup stalwart John Millman has been pleasantly surprised by how often his ears have been pricked in retirement by chatter about tennis.
“Often tennis is at the forefront of everyone’s mind in January, but then it kind of goes away and it takes a one-off match or, you know, some loud behaviour to grab the headlines for Australian tennis players. Adding lustre to de Minaur’s performance in 2024 is that the Sydneysider, who qualified in seventh position, was unable to play the points-rich Toronto, Cincinnati or Shanghai Masters due to the hip he injured at Wimbledon.
The Australian, who was twice a finalist in the ATP Tour Next Gen Finals in the early stages of his career, is delighted to feature among the world’s best players outside of Djokovic, who is recovering from extra medical work on the knee he injured at Roland Garros. But a win over Medvedev in the Paris Masters at the end of 2022 signalled he had arrived as a player capable of competing with and beating the Top 10 rivals from week to week.
“Obviously that sounds a bit silly, because he’s hovered around that 10 to 20 mark for a long time. But taken that next step … now by making the back to back to back quarterfinals at Grand Slams. “But it’s more that everything is a bit better, especially on the serve. So he has more free points on his serve. And it helps, also, when you have his game from the baseline with this huge intensity that he has on the game, when he has some free points on serve. So the whole balance of the game is harder to beat.
“ constantly looking at myself in the mirror and finding ways to try to get better. That has just been what I have done every single year, to continuously try to improve and find ways to get better. And never, and I mean never, be satisfied,” he said. As superb as de Minaur’s season has been, his 23-year-old rival has confirmed himself the world’s best hard court player with grand slam triumphs in the Australian and US Opens this year.
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