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The secrets of the incredible physical state of Álex de Miñaur: “Work never for”

The Australian plays this Saturday in Miami against Joao Fonseca

March 23, 2025

Álex de Miñaur’s physical capacity is so extraordinary that it is highly likely that someone who tries to follow him in his training, ends sick, injured or, in the best case, frustrated. Your work team can attest to it.

“In the last preseason, being on the track in Monaco, his coach Adolfo put himself next to him at 30 meters. Not to try to beat him because it is impossible but to stand up and chop Álex. But Adolfo broke the ischiotibial. of the Australian tennis player.

He has suffered the attempt to follow his pupil. Even though all year stay in shape and even when he decides to train more intensely before preseason with the sole intention of accompanying Álex and preventing him from feeling alone in some exercises, Emilio has ended up sick.

“Now we are with a second physical trainer on the team, ‘Fran’, a friend of mine. And between the two we relieve to accompany Álex. When we do series, for example, one part is run by someone and another one runs the other. And, even so, Alex beats us,” adds Emilio. “The other day I made 400 series with him and the next day I was bad. I last a sick week. He is injuring us all (laughs),” Poveda added.

And we are talking about one of the best physical states of ATP Tour of the last time. No. 11 of the PIF ATP Rankings is extraordinary in speed, resistance, explosiveness, in jumping equally with each leg, in recovering extremely fast after a blow, a shot, a game and a tour. The list could continue.

To put it in figures, in an evaluation of speed and agility called the T-Test, De Miñaur’s records do not find much competition among their colleagues. “There are ten meters forward, five meters on the side to one side and then towards the other. Álex is below ten seconds. Almost nine. Of what we have known, we have not found in other tennis players records that approach ours.”

Much of that excellence comes from birth. But almost everything lies in the devotion for the work of the current tenth manager at the Miami Open presented by Itaú.

“Physical preparation has been something very important in my career, especially in the last four or five years. It is a lot of work that we put almost every day of my life. Work never for and is the only way to improve. Not only is it improved on the track technically training,” says the Australian, nine times ATP Tour champion.

Even on days when mood does not help or the body says enough, the 26 -year -old right -hand finds the way to cross the finish line.

“When he is costing him, he still does. I remember two years ago that he was doing suicides and got dizzy. I said jokingly: ‘Álex, you are very delicate.’ Poveda

That same determination that prevents him from throwing at the towel when the circumstances suggest it, has helped it precisely to improve the physical aspects that made it vulnerable in the past.

“When I arrived at the tour we weighed anything more 67, 68 kilos. And, obviously, that was not sustainable to reach the top,” he recalls from Miñaur, which is now near the 76 kilograms. “That’s why I had to take a lot of strength, trying not to lose that consistency or speed or even the tank to play long games.”

Even today it might not seem as muscular as many of his colleagues, but precisely for that reason, the strength that manages to display.

“I have brought my students to Alex’s training, but they do not reach their figures. There is an exercise that is lying down, face down and you must push up with your knee in flexion, and measure with a dynamometer. You need a lot of capacity to generate a lot of strength with the major gluteus. And Alex has been able to reach 90 kilograms. It is very difficult to reach that.”

All this physical quality will be vital to face the next track challenge: nothing less than the Brazilian Joao Fonseca in the third round of the Miami Open presented by It Itaú.

“I am very well right now, very happy with how the body is. Obviously the plan is to have a physical battle, okay?” Alex said about his duel on Monday. “Let’s see how the game is. It will be dangerous, but I really want to play against him.”