{"id":333964,"date":"2025-12-08T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333964\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:58:08","slug":"alex-de-minaur-wins-964k-after-defeating-casper-ruud-in-the-ultimate-tennis-showdown-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333964\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur wins $964k after defeating Casper Ruud in the Ultimate Tennis Showdown final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian star Alex de Minaur<\/a> has no intention of slowing down before the new season after claiming a $964,000 pay cheque for his Ultimate Tennis Showdown victory.<\/p>\n

De Minaur made tournament history with a dominant win against Norway’s Casper Ruud in London on Monday (AEDT), with the Aussie becoming the first player to win the event three times.<\/p>\n

Ruud set the tone for the match – in which the format was four eight-minute quarters with three-minute breaks to changeover – soaring to a 4-0 lead in the first quarter as his Australian rival attempted to find his feet on the court.<\/p>\n

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De Minaur did find some late first quarter momentum but could not prevent Ruud from banking it 15-11.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Australian fired back to dominate the remaining three quarters and claim victory, 11-15, 15-10, 15-11, 16-7.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Alex De Minaur celebrates after defeating Casper Ruud in the UTS final.\u00a0CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The total prize fund for three days of work was a significant boost for de Minaur, who has openly stated that all winnings from here on out will go towards his wedding with British tennis star Katie Boulter.<\/p>\n

The prize money from the Ultimate Tennis Showdown falls just short of his largest pay day for the year, having won $994,000 for making the quarter finals at the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just last month, de Minuar won $1.09m for his efforts in the ATP Finals<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“It’s amazing to win here again,” de Minaur said after lifting the lightning bolt trophy.<\/p>\n

“London is a special place for me and it’s my home now, so it’s always great to play at this event and even better to win again.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had some tough matches here this week and playing Casper in the final was always going to be difficult. It is amazing to come through.<\/p>\n

“There is no rest for me now. I might take (Tuesday AEDT) off, but then it’s back on court practicing for the new season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian star Alex de Minaur has no intention of slowing down before the new season after claiming a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-333964","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\/333964","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=333964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}