{"id":348971,"date":"2025-12-15T06:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:15:51","slug":"australias-no-1-alex-de-minaur-pockets-nearly-1-million-after-winning-ultimate-tennis-showdown-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348971\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s No.1 Alex de Minaur pockets nearly $1 million after winning Ultimate Tennis Showdown grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur has pocketed one of the biggest pay-days of his best-ever season, scooping nearly $1 million for successfully defending his title in the innovative Ultimate Tennis Showdown<\/a> grand final in London.<\/p>\n

The world No.7 may be striving to make his ultimate breakthrough in traditional tennis, but he\u2019s become the master of the UTS format, a truncated, fast-paced version of the game played amid a noisy, floodlit rock \u2018n\u2019 roll backdrop unashamedly designed to woo a more youthful audience.<\/p>\n

Having won the event at London\u2019s Copper Box Arena this time last year, the Australian No.1 ended his 2025 program by defeating world No.12 Casper Ruud in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

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Victory earned him $US640,000 – a $US390,000 winner\u2019s cheque and a $US250,000 bonus for having played an earlier UTS event in France – which all equated to a whopping $A964,000 pre-Christmas present.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t much less than \u201cDemon\u2019\u2018 earned for reaching the recent ATP Finals semis ($US727,500), and was actually more than the $US420,000 for winning his only ATP title of the year in Washington.<\/p>\n

Now popular in Britain, as fianc\u00e9 of local tennis star Katie Boulter, de Minaur was again cheered at his \u201csecond home\u201d in the latest of the UTS events founded by coaching guru Patrick Mouratoglou and Alex Popyrin, the businessman dad of Aussie star Alexei.<\/p>\n

\"AlexAlex de Minaur with his flashy UTS trophy at Copper Box Arena in London. Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

Featuring shorter matches played on a pure singles courts over four eight-minute quarters and including unique rules like just one serve per point and sudden-death points, de Minaur has now won three UTS events over the format\u2019s five-year history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to win here again,\u201d he said. \u201cLondon is a special place for me, and my home now.\u2019\u2018<\/p>\n

The eight-player tournament ended with the highest-ranked duo meeting in the final, with de Minaur, who beat French star Ugo Humbert 3-0 in the semis, eclipsing Norway\u2019s three-time grand slam finalist Ruud 3-1 (11-15, 15-10, 15-11, 16-7).<\/p>\n

De Minaur\u2019s victory came on the eve of the annual Australian tennis awards in Melbourne, where he is an unbackable favourite to win a fourth Newcombe Medal on Monday night.<\/p>\n

But the tireless de Minaur reckoned: \u201cThere\u2019s no rest for me. I might take Monday off, but then it\u2019s back on court practising for the new season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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