{"id":662259,"date":"2026-10-31T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662259\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:00:26","slug":"alex-de-minaur-hits-career-milestone-in-vienna-to-book-semi-final-date-with-zverev-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662259\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur hits career milestone in Vienna to book semi-final date with Zverev | Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur has enjoyed a landmark 350th tour-level win of his career at the Vienna Open, downing an old rival to set up a semi-final date with the world No 1-elect Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s main man defeated Matteo Berrettini, the Italian he\u2019s had plenty of trouble with down the years, for the second successive year in the quarter-final of the ATP 500 event at the Wiener Stadthalle.<\/p>\n

Not only did his 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 triumph set \u201cDemon\u201d up for a third duel in just over a month with Zverev on Saturday but it boosted his bid to reach the season-ending men\u2019s championship, the ATP Finals, which still lies in the balance.<\/p>\n

World No 10 de Minaur found a way to draw first blood in a tight first stanza after saving a set point at 5-6, going on to take control of the tiebreak when the Italian, almost criminally, plonked a simple put-away into the net.<\/p>\n

De Minaur crucially saved a couple of break points at the start of the next set and cashed in by himself breaking Berrettini for the first time in the next game when the Italian produced an embarrassing air-shot when faced with a straightforward smash.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s Alex de Minaur returns the ball to Italy\u2019s Matteo Berrettini at the Vienna Open. Photograph: Georg Hochmuth\/APA\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

From there, there was no way back for the world No 48 as de Minaur raced to victory in an hour and three-quarters to reach the semis of the Austrian indoor hard-court event for the third-straight year.<\/p>\n

It all came off the back of, statistically, the equal-best serving display by de Minaur all season, getting in 71% of his first serves, as he actually out-aced the boom-serving Berrettini 5-4.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been an emphasis as of late, and I do feel like I\u2019ve got in a good rhythm on serve and feel like I\u2019m confident with what I\u2019m doing,\u201d said de Minaur.<\/p>\n

\u201cI maybe didn\u2019t serve as well as I would have liked to at the start of the week, but today was a great serving display from me, and you know, hopefully I can keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all helped him become the ninth Australian man to reach the 350 match-win landmark after Lleyton Hewitt (616), John Alexander (591), Rod Laver (576), John Newcombe (568), Ken Rosewall (546), Phil Dent (414), Tony Roche (364) and Pat Rafter (358).<\/p>\n

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But earlier, Zverev, who recently lost to de Minaur in the Laver Cup and defeated him in Shanghai, gave a glimpse of the searing form which has him set to be enthroned as world No 1 on Monday as he powered through his quarter-final against British Wimbledon hero Arthur Fery, 6-0 6-2, in just under an hour.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, 100 per cent, that\u2019s the aim,\u201d said de Minaur, pondering his latest chance to beat Zverev for the first time in an individual, rather than team, tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the types of matches that you want to be playing, against the best in the world \u2013 and right now he\u2019s the best in the world. So I\u2019m excited for that. Another battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

If de Minaur beats Zverev, he\u2019ll move back into the eighth and last qualifying spot to reach the ATP Finals for a third-straight year, with only the Paris Masters still to come as a qualifying event before the Turin end-of-season showpiece.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday (Saturday AEDT), Daniil Medvedev secured his place \u200cat the Finals for the seventh \u200ctime by outplaying French veteran Adrian Mannarino 6-2 6-3, setting up a last-four clash with world No 3 Carlos Alcaraz, who beat American Tommy Paul 6-4 \u200b7-6 (7-2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur has enjoyed a landmark 350th tour-level win of his career at the Vienna Open, downing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-662259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}