{"id":428310,"date":"2026-02-16T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:42:13","slug":"de-minaur-downs-auger-aliassime-to-win-rotterdam-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428310\/","title":{"rendered":"De Minaur downs Auger-Aliassime to win Rotterdam Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s Alex de Minaur won the Rotterdam Open at the third time of asking on Sunday, producing typical counterpunching tennis to overcome Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n

The top-seed had lost the previous two finals to Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, but he seized on the absence of the world’s top two to make it third time lucky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It feels great to finally be able to lift the title,” said the world number eight.<\/p>\n

“Every day I got better, and I’m super pleased with the performance today,” he added.<\/p>\n

Canada’s Auger-Aliassime<\/a> threw everything at the 26-year-old, but the Australian soaked up the pressure and retrieved brilliantly to finally take the crown in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

The early games went with serve, but De Minaur<\/a> seized the initiative in the 6th game, breaking the Canadian’s serve with some trademark retrieving and a spectacular backhand winner up the line.<\/p>\n

The top seed sealed the first set 6-3 with a powerful service, his consistency proving too much for Auger-Aliassime, who was left to rue 14 unforced errors, mainly on the forehand wing.<\/p>\n

The pattern repeated in the second set, on serve until de Minaur clinched a break to love in the fifth game after two disastrous Auger-Aliassime double faults.<\/p>\n

After this setback, the Canadian took a medical time-out for a reason that was not immediately clear, returning with no obvious movement issues.<\/p>\n

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However, de Minaur again broke his serve to love, Auger-Aliassime dumping a forehand into the net to put the Australian on the brink.<\/p>\n

De Minaur made no mistake, taking the title with his first ace of the match and raising his arms in triumph and relief.<\/p>\n

“Third time lucky. We finally managed to get the title,” said the Australian as he collected the trophy.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad I was finally able to get the title. It’s been one of my favourite spots on the calendar. I love coming back here in Rotterdam. I’ve played some of my best tennis here, and I finally get the reward.”<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime paid tribute to his opponent, saying, “he had no holes in his games and I couldn’t find a way.”<\/p>\n

“Sometimes I have to accept the loss and the fact that my opponent was better, and today he definitely was,” added the Canadian.<\/p>\n

Catch up on the results from Rotterdam here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s Alex de Minaur won the Rotterdam Open at the third time of asking on Sunday, producing typical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-428310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428310","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=428310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}