After nearly four hours through the course of this entire afternoon, Alex De Minaur is still in it with the men’s singles race as the lone Aussie standing at the famed RLA thanks to his 3rd round win over Francisco Cerundolo from Argentina in the best of four sets – 7-5, 6-7 (3-7 tie), 3-6 & 3-6.
It’s been a sigh of relief for Alex to get past the Argentine who has been a tough opponent for him at times having lost the opening set. But boy, he’s been ever so strong & persistent in the long runs, especially when he slapped his thighs as his lucky charm to keep himself moving by covering lots of ground along the way.
Although not only Alex needs to better get himself ahead early but he would have to finish well as best as he possible can because his next opponent will be a rising wonderkid in town who hails from the US & has been making waves so far at only the age of 20 – his name is Alex Michelsen.
Yes, he may have won against Michelsen twice last year but still he’s a completely different player on another level now.
So yeah, it’s game on between the Demon and another US Tennis wonderkid.
Whoever wins this next round will be expected to go up against men’s defending champion Jannik Sinner (Italy) unless someone else shockingly eliminates him in the process but we are sure to live with that as we know what was like when De Minaur previously faced the World No.1 many times before with extreme difficulty.
If he’s going to face the Italian again, then our strong Aussie support would do it to keep him keep on churning in home turf, having supported him well today and they are sure to continue cheering on his brilliant journey all on the one place so far at RLA, and that includes his fiancé & British tennis star Katie Boulter by his side!
Super Saturday continues to live on through the night before the Round of 16 portion starts during midday tomorrow.
Since fellow Briton Emma Raducanu has been blown away real fast by one of the world’s top players in Iga Swiatek who still has a point to prove other than being the Queen of Roland Garros, there’s still a hunch of US players to look out for between now & the 2nd week. There’s like 2023 US Open winner Coco Gauff, Emma Navarro and either one of Madison Keys or the female version of Daniil Medvedev in 2022 AO runner-up Danielle Collins.