{"id":218833,"date":"2025-10-22T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218833\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:06:09","slug":"alex-de-minaur-receives-wildcard-to-play-in-tournament-alongside-jack-draper-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218833\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur receives wildcard to play in tournament alongside Jack Draper later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alex de Minaur has shaken off injury to return to the ATP Tour this week, with the Australian playing at the Vienna Open.<\/p>\n

And the world number seven has already enjoyed a significant moment in Austria, with De Minaur claiming his 300th ATP Tour win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He defeated Jurij Rodionov 6-4, 6-1 in his opening match, earning De Minaur<\/a> a round of 16 tie with Filip Misolic at the Vienna Open.<\/p>\n

De Minaur shared his concern about a hip injury<\/a> shortly before the tournament, with the issue forcing him out of the most recent Ultimate Tennis Showdown event.<\/p>\n

Ten-time ATP champion De Minaur withdrew from UTS Hong Kong<\/a> at the last minute, but he\u2019s now set for a fitting return at the event run by Patrick Mouratoglou.<\/p>\n

\"AlexPhoto by Fred Lee\/Getty ImagesAlex de Minaur receives wildcard to play in 2025 event with Jack Draper<\/p>\n

As per the UTS<\/a> on Instagram, De Minaur has received a wildcard to compete in the Grand Final later this year.<\/p>\n

The tournament takes place in London\u2019s Copper Box Arena in December, and also features British number one Jack Draper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their fellow ATP stars Casper Ruud, Andrey Rublev, Tomas Machac, Francisco Cerundolo, David Goffin and Adrian Mannarino complete the eight-man field.<\/p>\n

De Minaur won the UTS Grand Final<\/a> last year, battling past Dane Holger Rune 3-0 in their meeting in London.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: American player who Alex de Minaur called \u2018unbelievable\u2019 is currently having trial period with a new coach<\/a><\/p>\n

How have Alex de Minaur and Jack Draper performed on the ATP Tour in 2025?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly an exciting lineup for the UTS London Grand Final 2025, with De Minaur and Draper headlining the field.<\/p>\n

The former is currently ranked seventh on the ATP Tour, with the latter just two spots behind in ninth place.<\/p>\n

Alex de MinaurJack Draper7Rank91Titles151Wins3019Losses9$4,114,493Prize money$3,421,704Alex de Minaur vs Jack Draper 2025 ATP stats<\/p>\n

But Draper has ended his ATP season due to injury, with UTS fans hopeful he and De Minaur will be fit enough to take on the upcoming event in December.<\/p>\n

Both players have enjoyed strong seasons in 2025 despite their injury issues, and the Australian\u2019s should continue at the ATP Finals next month, although he is yet to qualify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Alex de Minaur has shaken off injury to return to the ATP Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[17477,7258,101,118,56,54,55,34838,74008],"class_list":["post-218833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-jack-draper","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-uts","tag-uts-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}