After a few goes of making playing a few consecutive Round of 16s before being finally able to play in a home QF, Alex De Minaur’s run here at Rod Laver Arena are now over unfortunately tonight at the hands of defending champion Jannik Sinner in straight sets – 6-3, 6-2 and 6-1.
That means the Italian in Sinner will continue his title defense ahead of his next match in the semis this Friday v Ben Shelton from the USA & the winner of that next match will go on to either take on the winner of that other semi between Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev.
First of all, ‘The Demon’ as we always call it as Alex’s nickname had some brilliant early moments right from the very start.
It’s just a shame he threw things away at times that could’ve mean business to throw the pressure back at Sinner & try to map things out on his own, especially when this opponent here is someone he couldn’t beat over the last few times including the last two Davis Cup Finals yearly tournaments and yet Sinner got the better execution than him.
We also wish his fiancé Katie Boulter (Great Britain) was cheering on by his side when his mother Esther was holding the Aussie flag with pride once again. But as Todd Woodbridge said during commentary, she was unable to attend in-person this time around unlike the last two of his matches, as she has a match to prepare on her own over the next few days or at the start of next week.
I’m sure we are all disappointed to see him being eliminated even with no Katie on his corner. But again, there’s every good moment we can look back from start to finish for Alex at this year’s Australian Open, and the best part about Alex’s 2025 campaign here is that every round of his matches were all played at the RLA.
I mean, a full house with full Aussie support alongside his explosive skillsets of grand slam brilliance that we can all be proud of as Tennis/Sports fans! How good!
Not only that, there’s still more to come from Alex throughout the course of 2025 as well. I see the early round Davis Cup Qualifiers are happening next weekend where Australia will fly over to Sweden as their first opponent away from home.
What else? Oh the other three grand slams where he made the last few QFs too & sure he will look to play his ever first semi-final there either way – you never know what will come if he does win that next match towards a shot in the Final.
So there you have it, while there’s no Aussies left in either singles draw or even doubles other than the mixed doubles category (an all-Aussie contest btw) – there’s always the two must-match semi-final days across tomorrow night for the women and throughout Friday for the men before all champions will be crowned this weekend.
Here’s the list below:
- Ayrna Sabalenka v Paula Badosa
- Madison Keys v Iga Swiatek
- Novak Djokovic v Alexander Zverev
- Ben Shelton v Jannik Sinner
