The first set threatened to become a demolition as De Minaur raced to a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n
But Hewitt found his feet, breaking back in the sixth game and holding serve before succumbing 6-2.<\/p>\n
Cheered on by a crowd that included his famous father, Hewitt started the second set brightly.<\/p>\n
But he was broken again on his second service game and could not reel in De Minaur, who warmly embraced the youngster at the net after taking the match<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was the first head-to-head ATP Tour match between the two, who have known each other for years.<\/p>\n “It was definitely weird,” said De Minaur. “I knew I was going to play him on the tour someday, but I didn’t actually expect it to be this week.<\/p>\n “It was an amazing feeling. Even all the lead up, seeing all the incredible pictures that we have together and how we’ve both grown up.<\/p>\n “I’m glad I managed to get through, but I’m sure we’re going to have many battles in the years to come.”<\/p>\n De Minaur next faces American Brandon Nakashima<\/a>, who upset Czech seventh seed Jakub Mensik<\/a> 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4.<\/a><\/p>\n US home hope Shelton<\/a> advanced with a gritty 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4<\/a> victory over France’s Ugo Humbert<\/a>. After handing Humbert the first set with a double fault on set point, Shelton dominated the second.<\/p>\n But the third set was a tense affair and after seizing a break for a 5-4 lead Shelton had to fend off a break point before polishing off the match with a sharply angled serve that Humbert smacked into the net.<\/p>\n “For me, it was all about heart tonight,” Shelton said after lining up a meeting with Chile’s Alejandro Tabile<\/a>, a 6-3, 7-6(6)<\/a> winner over France’s Terence Atmane<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pegula<\/a> also had to rally from a set down, saying she started her match against Poland’s Frech<\/a> “just a little off” after a first-round bye.<\/p>\n “I wasn’t quite attacking the ball, and I felt like once I did that, then everything else kind of started to click together,” said Pegula, who finished with 42 winners and won 12 of the last 15 games to triumph 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.<\/a><\/p>\n Pegula next plays fifth-seeded Anna Kalinskaya<\/a>, who saved two match points to beat Indonesia’s Janice Tjen<\/a> 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(7)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ukraine’s Svitolina<\/a> booked her quarter-final berth with a 7-6(4), 6-4<\/a> victory over Uzbekistan’s Polina Kudermetova<\/a>. She’ll face rising Philippines star Alexandra Eala<\/a> for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Alex de Minaur powered into the Washington Open quarter-finals with a clinical 6-2, 6-3 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722905","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\/722905","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=722905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Match](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9545505a-7485-4f64-a33e-8d2e1c2ca5ee.jpg\" "\\"Match")
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