Overview

Alex de Minaur is Australia’s top-ranked player and joins defending champions Team World following his Laver Cup debut in London 2022, where he defeated Andy Murray in an epic Friday night session. He is a seven -time ATP Tour singles champion, having captured his first title back in his hometown Sydney in 2019 – the year after being named 2018 ATP Newcomer of the Year. While his favorite surface is grass, six of de Minaur’s Tour-level titles have come on hard courts, including his latest at Acapulco in March, where he defeated Team World teammate Tommy Paul in three sets.

Off Court

De Minaur splits his time between Australia and Spain, and speaks English, Spanish and French. Nicknamed, the ‘Demon’, Alex’s father is from Uruguay and his mother is Spanish. He was introduced to tennis at the age of four and moved to Alicante when he was five, training in Europe and later mentored by one of Australia’s most successful players, Lleyton Hewitt. Aside from tennis, de Minaur loves playing golf.

Career

De Minaur’s renowned fighting spirit on court has yielded seven ATP singles title since capturing his first in Sydney in 2019. All have been on hard court, with the exception of Eastbourne 2021. 2023 has been a standout year for de Minaur, who reached a career-high No.12 ranking in August after reaching his first ATP Masters 1000 final at Toronto, having upset World No.9 Taylor Fritz in the R16 and World No.3 Daniil Medvedev in the quarterfinals. A finalist at Queens and Los Cabos, he won a 7th career title earlier in the year at Acapulco and defeated World No.2 Rafael Nadal at the United Cup in January.

2022 highlights:

Winner: Acapulco
Runner-Up: Toronto, Los Cabos, Queens
Quarterfinals: Atlanta, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Barcelona, Marseille, Rotterdam