Alex de Minaur’s Mexican love affair goes on, with the Australian tennis star successful a ninth straight match within the nation to ease into the ultimate of the ATP Tour’s Los Cabos Open.
In March, De Minaur beat world No.14 Tommy Paul within the ultimate of the Mexican Open in Acapulco to clinch his first ATP 500 title.
He beat Paul once more on Thursday, on his solution to a semi-final match-up with Germany’s seventh-seeded Dominik Koepfer on the 250 collection occasion in Los Cabos.
De Minaur raced to a 6-2 win within the first set over Koepfer on Friday earlier than shedding a way more carefully fought second in a tiebreak after at one stage trailing 4-0.
The German appeared to have blown himself out, although, with De Minaur cruising to the third set to clinch a 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 win in a shade underneath two hours and 25 minutes.
That victory means De Minaur has now gained 9 matches in a row in Mexico – and he’ll hope to stretch that file to 10 when he faces the winner of the opposite semi-final, between prime seed Stefanos Tsitsipas and Croatia’s Borna Coric, in Saturday’s ultimate (Sunday AEST).
World No.19 De Minaur’s 2023 file now stands at 27-15, and he’s 5-1 on this North American summer time hard-court season, as he tunes up forward of the US Open which begins on August 28.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
