alex de minaur

Biography

Overview
Alex de Minaur is Australia’s top-ranked player and helped the men in red win their first Laver Cup title at London in 2022. His debut match against Andy Murray was an unforgettable come-from-behind epic won by the relentless Aussie. De Minaur broke into the top 10 in 2024 and achieved a career-high ranking of No.6, and this year adding the singles title at Washington to his overall tally of 10.

Off Court
De Minaur splits his time between Australia and Spain, and speaks English, Spanish and French. Nicknamed, the ‘Demon’ and lauded by Novak Djokovic as the fastest player on tour, 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. His fiance is British tennis star Katie Boulter, and together they have become known as one of the sport’s ‘power couples’.

Career
De Minaur’s renowned fighting spirit on court has yielded 10 ATP singles titles since capturing his first in Sydney in 2019. All have been on hard court, with the exception of Eastbourne in 2021 and ‘s-Hertogenbosch 2024. He has finished runner-up at nine other ATP Tour-level singles tournaments including a first ATP Masters 1000 in Toronto 2023. Last year, De Minaur became the first Australian to advance to a men’s singles quarterfinal at Roland Garros in 20 years, triumphing against world No.5 Daniil Medvedev in the fourth round. A few weeks later he reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the first time. In 2025 he was a quarterfinalist at the Australian Open and US Open, maintaining his position in the top 10 and consolidating his reputation as one of the sport’s fastest and most lethal competitors with an irrepressible thirst for victory.

2025 Highlights
Winner: Washington
Runner-up: Rotterdam
Semifinals: Monte-Carlo
Quarterfinals: Australian Open, Doha, Barcelona, Toront0, US Open
R16: Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome, Wimbledon