The winner of the Alex final 4th Round match last night goes to our own Alex De Minaur over American Alex Michelsen in straight sets 0-6, 6-7 with 5-7 tiebreak and 3-6 at Rod Laver Arena – the place he’s only been playing there through his whole 2025 Australian Open run so far.
For Michelsen, it’s been great seeing the best of him up until this point having made a name himself at only 20 through upset wins over Stefanos Tsitsipas (1R) & Karen Khachanov (3R). Yes, it wasn’t his day when he lacked a couple of areas to tidy up his game but surely there’s a lot more to come from him soon throughout 2025.
Now bring on reigning champion Jannik Sinner from Italy for Wednesday night’s Quarter-Final no matter what happens with the result, especially when Sinner has always been the better player than him with 2 x grand slam championships on hand. Well, he may be the current and future of men’s world tennis but that doesn’t mean ‘The Demon’ can’t do well or at least be at his best, especially when playing in front of his home supporters.
This is what we want for Alex to be on the front foot off the back of his tremendous start last night along with the bull of a fighter like we saw during that intense 2nd stage encounter all the way to that tiebreak & he knows what to do to sign things off when the match goes his way.
Nothing more, nothing less – that’s all.
Our Aussie support needs him and he needs them to cheer him up, especially if his next opponent will be Sinner as miracles tend to happen too amongst other players so far in this tournament.
Over to you Alex now for his first Australian Open QF tomorrow night thanks to his brilliant form so far at the RLA including a string of recent grand slam Quarter-Final appearances outside of Melbourne Park last season.
In the meantime, what a win and what a night it was last night with his mother Esther in attendance who witnessed so much joy of seeing his son finally able to play in a home QF grand slam for the first time as these are things you love to see. Not only that, here’s some more Katie & Alex together in action where Katie was cheering on once again by his side as a spectator.
