{"id":11067,"date":"2026-05-13T06:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/11067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:07:46","slug":"rotterdam-open-alex-de-minaur-clinches-title-at-third-time-of-asking-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/11067\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam Open: Alex de Minaur clinches title at third time of asking | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex de Minaur claimed his 11th ATP title after beating Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets in the final of the Rotterdam Open.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third consecutive final in the Dutch tournament for the Australian player, who lost in 2024 to Jannik Sinner and last year to Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime was also playing his third final in Rotterdam, having won the tournament in 2020 against Gael Monfils and in 2022 against Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, third time lucky,&#8221; de Minaur said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so super happy. It ended up being a great week here, a place where I always feel really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just a step short the previous years, so it feels great to finally be able to lift the title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shelton beats Fritz in all-American Dallas Open final<\/p>\n<p>Ben Shelton saved three match points as he beat top-seeded Taylor Fritz in three sets to win the Dallas Open final.<\/p>\n<p>The battle of the two highest-ranked American men&#8217;s players saw Shelton lose the opening set for the third successive round before rallying to a 3-6 6-3 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton improved to 4-0 in ATP finals and beat Fritz, ranked seventh in the world, after the pair had split their first two meetings.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/skysports-ben-shelton-tennis_7166055.jpg\"   alt=\"Ben Shelton came from a set down to beat fellow American Taylor Fritz in the Dallas Open final\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Ben Shelton came from a set down to beat fellow American Taylor Fritz in the Dallas Open final<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old&#8217;s title came after he reached the Australian Open quarter-finals last month, losing in straight sets to Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>After saving three match points to get the third set to 5-5, Shelton had three chances to close out Fritz while serving for the match. Fritz saved the first two, but the 10-time ATP champion couldn&#8217;t match his opponent by saving the third.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, live on Sky Sports or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stream with NOW<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11677\/12572660\/download-the-sky-sports-app-premier-league-goals-f1-race-control-and-more-at-your-fingertips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports app<\/a>, giving Sky Sports customers access to over 50 per cent more live sport this year at no extra cost. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13131189\/sky-sports-plus-launches-in-august-to-give-more-choice-to-fans-via-live-streams-app-and-new-channel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur claimed his 11th ATP title after beating Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets in the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-11067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rotterdam","8":"tag-rotterdam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}