In the running for the home title, Australian Tennis Player, Alex de Minaur has set up his place in the fourth round as he beats Spain\u2019s Pablo And\u00fajar at the third round of the Australian Open on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur defeats Pablo And\u00fajar by 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 at the Rod Laver Arena. The victory of 22-year-old has revived the hope at Melbourne park after Australia\u2019s Christopher O\u2019Connell and Maddison Inglis were ruled out of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Christopher O\u2019Connell lost in the third round against France\u2019s Maxime Cressy on Saturday, while Maddison Inglis loses to Estonia\u2019s Kaia Kanepi at the third round on Saturday. With Australia\u2019s great Rod Laver Aren and Lleyton Hewitt being present there, Alex de Minaur played brilliantly, mixing his trademark defensive baseline strategy a lot of approach shots at the net,<\/p>\n
Whereas, Pablo And\u00fajar in the first two sets saves set points but Alex de Minaur made no blunder when it came to serving, shooting two aces before And\u00fajar loses with an unforced mistake.<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur currently ranking no. 42, made his debut in July 2015 at the Spain F22, reaching the quarterfinals. He was also given a wildcard into the qualifying rounds of the Australian Open 2016 but loses in the opening round. Minaur is now all set to clash against Italy\u2019s Jannik Sinner at the fourth round of the Australian Open on January 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alex de Minaur has reached the fourth round after beating Pablo And\u00fajar in the third round of the Australian Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":37992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2187],"class_list":["post-17246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2022"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}