{"id":126505,"date":"2025-09-02T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:30:07","slug":"alex-de-minaur-eases-into-last-eight-of-us-open-with-straight-sets-win-alex-de-minaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/126505\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur eases into last eight of US Open with straight sets win | Alex de Minaur"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took until the second week of the US Open for the No 8 seed to be given a slot on one of the US Open\u2019s three show courts, but having finally been granted a premium placing, Alex de Minaur<\/a> has wasted no time putting on a show.<\/p>\n

In truth, the Australian No 1 did not play at his best \u2013 but he didn\u2019t need to as his opponent, Swiss qualifier Leandro Riedi, made a slew of errors.<\/p>\n

De Minaur did, however, show flashes of genius in putting away the world No 435 to win 6-3 6-2 6-1 in 93 minutes.<\/p>\n

The last Australian <\/a>in the adult singles, de Minaur thus eased into a third New York quarter-final where he will meet Canadian No 25 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime after he beat Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n

Either will prove a much tougher test than Riedi, who froze under pressure and played a poor game tactically, feeding de Minaur\u2019s brilliant returning by trying in vain to blast the Aussie off court.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the only time the Australian looked mildly flustered was when he was asked, in the post-match interview, to demonstrate his command of Spanish to the many Hispanic fans in the crowd \u2013 but even then he soon regained his composure<\/p>\n

De Minaur\u2019s match was first up on Louis Armstrong Court on Monday (local time), with a decent but not full crowd basking in relatively moderate \u2013 for New York in summer \u2013 25C sunshine.<\/p>\n

The first set turned on three breaks mid-set. De Minaur won two of them, and that gave him control of the match.<\/p>\n

In the second set he swiftly moved to 5-0 only to be surprisingly broken. But he served out at the second opportunity.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts of a revival by the Swiss were quickly extinguished when de Minaur broke to love in game three of the third set. Riedi had a point to break back but failed to take it and de Minaur broke again, then again, the match ending with his opponent\u2019s ninth double-fault.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was happy with my level, my focus,\u201d said de Minaur. \u201cI knew he had some big shots and he\u2019s had a hell of a week coming through quallies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just happy to be back in the quarter-finals here. Ultimately this is where I want to be, playing for the big titles, being in contention. I am putting myself in the right places and I have another big opportunity coming up in the quarter-finals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took until the second week of the US Open for the No 8 seed to be given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-126505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}