{"id":63575,"date":"2026-09-02T22:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/63575\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:25:22","slug":"de-minaur-finally-reaches-us-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/63575\/","title":{"rendered":"De Minaur finally reaches US Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b3fdcfa9-2277-4ffe-bc15-6322c680278e.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Alex de Minaur has advanced to the US Open second round after several rain delays. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p>Alex de Minaur is up and running at the US Open, Australia&#8217;s big title hope finally posting a belated first-round win at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>After having his tournament opener against Andrea Guerrieri postponed until day four, de Minaur had to endure another two-hour rain delay before putting away the Italian qualifier in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>The world No.7 advanced with a 6-2 6-2 6-4 victory to set up a second-round clash with Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp.<\/p>\n<p>In a clinical display, de Minaur broke Guerrieri twice in all three sets and only dropped serve once, when he was trying to close out the match at 5-2 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>But New York&#8217;s miserable weather has left de Minaur facing a scheduling backlog and needing to win seven best-of-five-set matches in 12 days to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The three-times quarter-finalist will need to be back on site on Thursday (Friday AEST) to face the 70th-ranked van de Zandschulp and again the following day if he wins again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ec695e55-a84d-491f-aeb6-d0975315a8f9.jpg\" alt=\"Botic van de Zandschulp,\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>Botic van de Zandschulp is Alex de Minaur&#8217;s next assignment in the second round. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n<p>Former champion Daniil Medvedev and American home hope Alex Michelsen were already safely through to round three before de Minaur even made it on court for his tournament opener.<\/p>\n<p>When he finally opened his campaign on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), de Minaur looked intent on making up for lost time, racing to a 6-2 4-2 lead in just 49 minutes before the heavens opened.<\/p>\n<p>After scampering back to the locker room, de Minaur returned to court 11 to wrap up victory in less than an hour. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rightsportal.copyright.com.au\/licensing\/general-enquiry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"license-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur has advanced to the US Open second round after several rain delays. (AP PHOTO) Alex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1401,1402,362,459,1403,1406,1405,1410,54,1407,1404,1408,1409,783],"class_list":["post-63575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alex-de-minaur","tag-aap","tag-aapnews","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-australia","tag-australian-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-global-news","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}