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A Miñaur implacable dreams of Róterdam

The Australian will seek his second final in a row in the Dutch ATP 500

February 07, 2025

Alex de Miñaur wants to settle definitively in the high zone of the circuit and the Róterdam stage offers a great impulse. The current Australian runner -up returned this Friday the Semifinals of ABN Amro Open, confirming its idyll with one of the most classic covered track tournaments in the calendar. With a devilish rhythm of ball, Sydney has perched to the penultimate round without delivering a single manga, symptom of the comfort with which he assumes the neutral conditions of the tournament.

No. 8 of the PIF ATP Rankings completed an effort of concentration, overflowing 6-1, 6-4 to German Daniel Altmaier in just 89 minutes of play. Miñaur imposed the solidity of his reflexes to defeat his rival, repeated from the previous phase and licensed to release his hand. He aussie He dominated the game from the return, scratching 67% of the points with the second service of the German (20/30) to incline a duel of vertiginous blows.

Miñaur has once again found its best level in one of the great tournaments of the initial stretch of the season. A year ago, the Australian managed to compete for the Rotterdam Cup, an objective that could only avoid in the final the then emerging Jannik Sinner, firm No. 1 of the PIF ATP Rankings today. Without the Italian on the horizon this week, Alex will try to go one step further under the cover of the Netherlands.

In a lower part of the picture full of emotion, De Miñaur will play the penultimate round before No. 93 Mattia Bellucci World Cup. The Italian, great revelation of the tournament, beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (6-4, 6-2) to reach his first ATP Tour semifinal and extend the best week of his career under the roof of Rotterdam Ahoy, where he also defeated the second favorite Daniil Medvedev after making their way from the previous phase.

“Being sincere, at first I felt that I was not enjoying as much as against Medvedev,” Bellucci acknowledged after the victory. “I had to do something to change it. But I noticed that I was playing a good level of tennis, and that kept me firm in the game.”

Miñaur seeks to draw a great start of the 2025 season and consolidate among the strongest of the locker room. After reaching the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and protecting the colors of Australia both in United Cup and in Davis, Sydney accumulates an impressive balance (10-1) at the dawn of the year. Now, if the covered track rewards speed, few like the aussie To face the challenge.

The Australian completed in 2024 the best season of his career, with unpublished personal milestones when debuting in the top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings and play for the first time the Nitto ATP Finals.

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Alex de Miñaur has signed in the ATP 500 category the greatest successes of his sports career. The Australian, who conquered the Mexican Open Telcel presented by HSBC in the 2023 and 2024 seasons, will try to expand its legacy at this level of tournaments under the roof of Róterdam.