Alex de Minaur is often regarded as the quickest player on the ATP Tour.
De Minaur has been praised for his speed by Novak Djokovic, who claimed he probably is the quickest tennis player after playing him.
Speed is something that has been particularly beneficial to the Australian recently, as it helped De Minaur win the Washington Open title.
De Minaur has continued this form into the Canadian Open, but he is not the only speedy player on the ATP Tour.
Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty ImagesAlex de Minaur names the three fast players who could rival his speed
There has been a big conversation about De Minaur’s speed this week, after he used it to great effect in an incredible point against Frances Tiafoe at the Canadian Open.
This has brought back a question that De Minaur was asked en route to winning the Washington Open title, where he named three players who he thinks could rival his speed.
One of those is five-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz, who has an unbeaten record against De Minaur.
Gael Monfils has also never lost to De Minaur, with the 38-year-old one of the three players also named by the Australian as one of the quickest on tour.
The third and final player he named was Corentin Moutet, who De Minaur actually beat en route to the Washington Open title.
I asked Alex De Minaur in D.C. (after his QF win vs Brandon Nakashima) to choose three other players that would rival him in terms of raw speed on the court.
His three were:
– Carlos Alcaraz
– Gael Monfils
– Corentin Moutet https://t.co/4bsKdGSRSq— Vansh (@vanshv2k) August 4, 2025
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It seems that the three people De Minaur named are not the only players who are particularly quick.
With talk of a hypothetical 100m race between De Minaur and Alcaraz on social media, world number 19 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina then showed his interest in joining the line-up.
Davidovich Fokina recently suffered heartbreak against De Minaur in the Washington Open final, but appears to still back himself in a foot race.
Someone who has supported this claim is former Wimbledon quarterfinalist Chris Eubanks, who called Davidovich Fokina ‘lightning’.
He wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), “I don’t think people realise just how fast Foki is. Guy is lightning (lightning emoji).”
Despite the different names shortlisted for the potential fastest player on the ATP Tour, only De Minaur remains in the Canadian Open draw.
De Minaur will look to reach the semifinals of the Canadian Open, with Ben Shelton standing in his way of doing so.