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Alex de Minaur comes of age at US Open and shows he belongs at top table – The Guardian
The Australian’s energetic counter-punching game will give Dominic Thiem plenty to think about in their quarter-final
How fortunate it is that Alex de Minaurs almost comically feeble moustache is not the best measure of the Australians development since he first played Dominic Thiem three years ago. In the first round of De Minaurs debut US Open, the 18-year-old scrounged just six games against a heavy-hitting baseliner who had recently reached the Roland Garros semi-finals on his favoured clay.
He was skinny, super-fast back then already, but now hes a man, a super-experienced player already, said Thiem the s…
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