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\n De Minaur denies Diallo’s upset bid in Paris, keeping Turin chances on track<\/p>\n
Turin-hopeful Musetti falls to Sonego<\/p>\n
October 29, 2025<\/p>\n
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Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur defeats Gabriel Diallo 7-6(8), 4-6, 6-3 at the Rolex Paris Masters on Wednesday.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur<\/a> fought off an early scare Wednesday at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> to continue his pursuit of Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> qualification.<\/p>\n Holding his ground at seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, De Minaur overcame hefty-serving Gabriel Diallo<\/a> 7-6(8), 4-6, 6-3 after a topsy-turvy two hours and 37 minutes. <\/p>\n A tight first-set tie-break told the story of the match. While Diallo grabbed early momentum by storming to a 5\/0 lead, De Minaur captured five consecutive points to again apply pressure on the upset-hunting Canadian.<\/p>\n Diallo held three set points in the tie-break \u2014 including two on his serve \u2014 yet De Minaur\u2019s defensive prowess forced repeated forehand errors from the 24-year-old. The Canadian finished with 66 unforced errors, including 36 from his forehand, four more than De Minaur\u2019s 32 total unforced errors.<\/p>\n You May Also Like: The Handover: Puppets pull the strings on ATP Tour<\/a><\/p>\n De Minaur is aiming to secure a spot at the Turin season finale, which runs from 9-16 November. Boasting a season-leading 41 hard-court match wins, the 26-year-old is just 35 points behind sixth-placed Ben Shelton<\/a>, who is still alive in Paris. Italian Lorenzo Sonego<\/a> upset countryman and eight-placed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 Wednesday.<\/p>\n Up next for De Minaur is 10th seed Karen Khachanov<\/a>, who won his biggest career title at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> in 2018. Khachanov has won two of his three Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings against De Minaur.<\/p>\n Did You Know? Watch Extended Highlights from Wednesday’s action in Paris:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris De Minaur denies Diallo’s upset bid in Paris, keeping Turin chances on track Turin-hopeful Musetti falls to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233476","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=233476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
De Minaur is the fourth man since 2016 to reach the Round of 16 of at least eight of the season\u2019s nine ATP Masters 1000 events. Milos Raonic<\/a> (2016), Rafael Nadal<\/a> (2017), Alexander Zverev<\/a> (2024) also achieved the feat.<\/p>\n