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<\/p>\n Match Report
\n De Minaur hits big milestone, advances to Shanghai QFs & moves closer to Turin<\/p>\n
Rinderknech joins cousin Vacherot in the quarter-finals<\/p>\n
October 08, 2025<\/p>\n
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Alex de Minaur is seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur<\/a> recorded his 50th tour-level victory of the season on Wednesday at the Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a>, where he moved past Nuno Borges<\/a> 7-5, 6-2 to reach his seventh ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final.<\/p>\n De Minaur is just the third man to hit the 50-win mark in 2025, joining Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> (67) and Taylor Fritz<\/a> (50), with the Australian earning a Tour-leading 37 victories on hard courts. Playing with confidence and controlled aggression against Borges, De Minaur struck 19 winners to just 10 unforced errors en route to a one-hour, 47-minute triumph in the pair\u2019s first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting.<\/p>\n De Minaur\u2019s previous best season in 2024 culminated in 47 wins and two titles, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. Having lifted the trophy at the ATP 500 event in Washington in August, the 26-year-old is chasing his second title of the year in Shanghai, where he will next meet Daniil Medvedev<\/a> or #NextGenATP American Learner Tien<\/a>.<\/p>\n De Minaur arrived in Shanghai off the back of a semi-final showing in Beijing and his latest run is further improving his Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> qualification chances. The 10-time tour-level champion is seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, 740 points clear of 10th-placed Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>, who is the first player outside the Top 8 cut due to ninth-placed Jack Draper<\/a> being sidelined for the rest of the year with injury.<\/p>\n De Minaur, who made his debut at the prestigious year-end event in 2024, would rise to fourth in the Live Race if he captures his maiden Masters 1000 title in Shanghai.<\/p>\n Earlier, Arthur Rinderknech<\/a> backed up his win against World No. 3 Alexander Zverev<\/a> by defeating Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-3, 7-6(5) to reach his maiden Masters 1000 quarter-final. The Frenchman, who is up to No. 43 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, has joined his cousin Valentin Vacherot<\/a> in the last eight. Following his win, Rinderknech wrote a message of support for qualifier Vacherot, who is the first Monegasque player to reach a tour-level quarter-final in history.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report De Minaur hits big milestone, advances to Shanghai QFs & moves closer to Turin Rinderknech joins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-197323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759912687_392_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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