{"id":432162,"date":"2026-01-23T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:19:09","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-v-anastasia-potapova-carlos-alcaraz-v-corentin-moutet-coco-gauff-v-hailey-baptiste-daniil-medvedev-v-fabian-maroszan-alexander-zverev-v-cameron-norrie-frances-tiafoe-v-alex-de-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432162\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka v Anastasia Potapova, Carlos Alcaraz v Corentin Moutet, Coco Gauff v Hailey Baptiste, Daniil Medvedev v Fabian Maroszan, Alexander Zverev v Cameron Norrie, Frances Tiafoe v Alex de Minaur, day 6 scores, schedule, draw, times, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur has produced one of his finest performances at any Australian Open to advance to the fourth round for the fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n

The last Australian man standing has the chance to reach back-to-back quarter-finals at his home major after eliminating American threat Frances Tiafoe, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5, in front of an adoring Rod Laver Arena crowd on Friday night.<\/p>\n

De Minaur is the only local to make the last 16 at the Open in five successive years since the tournament switched from Kooyong in 1988.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my brain, I don\u2019t associate playing in Australia as playing with pressure. I associate it with excitement,\u201d de Minaur said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I was a little kid, this is where I wanted to be, where I wanted to play in front of packed crowds. I\u2019m truly fortunate to be in this position and, yes, it gets stressful at times, but that\u2019s only because I want it so bad, so I\u2019ll do my best [to keep going].\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiafoe tried to stage an improbable late fightback after going down a break in the third set, drawing level and threatening to extend the match into a fourth.<\/p>\n

But one more wild forehand, off a service-box return that de Minaur barely blocked back, proved Tiafoe\u2019s undoing after saving four earlier break points with inspired tennis in what proved the penultimate game.<\/p>\n

Even then, de Minaur needed three match points \u2013 either side of saving a break-back point \u2013 to complete victory in two hours and 43 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur stretches for a return.Credit: Alex Coppel<\/p>\n

\u201cFrances is a hell of a competitor, a hell of a player, and it was a hell of a battle, so huge respect to him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played some of my best tennis in the tournament for two-and-a-half sets, and he lifted when he needed it, and he started going big. He started returning and playing with some great depth, taking the racquet out of my hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just had to manage it, and it was quite stressful at the end, but I\u2019m very relieved that I got over the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loading<\/p>\n

De Minaur continues to be one of the most consistently excellent players on the men\u2019s tour, and has made no secret of his ambition to one day hold aloft the Australian Open trophy.<\/p>\n

That is still more dream than reality, given the presence of Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 a potential quarter-final foe \u2013 and Jannik Sinner, but the world No.6 is in rare touch and increasingly believing he can beat the world\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

Either world No.10 Alexander Bublik or Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry, who are still on court, are up next for de Minaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur has produced one of his finest performances at any Australian Open to advance to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-432162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432162","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=432162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}