{"id":516882,"date":"2025-10-21T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516882\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:40:20","slug":"aussie-tennis-star-alex-de-minaur-achieves-major-career-milestone-pretty-cool-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516882\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie tennis star Alex de Minaur achieves major career milestone: &#8216;pretty cool moment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Aussie has won 300 matches on the ATP circuit<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Turned pro in 2015, now nestled in world top 10<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-145\/andrew-prentice.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANDREW PRENTICE, SPORT REPORTER, AUSTRALIA<\/a> and AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  21:49 EDT, 20 October 2025   |  Updated:  21:49 EDT, 20 October 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He is yet to win a grand slam, but Australia&#8217;s top-ranked tennis player <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/alex-de-minaur\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c9a176f0-ae0f-11f0-9b08-db4d8a5d2190\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex de Minaur<\/a>\u00a0has chalked up a significant personal milestone, winning his 300th career match on the ATP circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It followed an impressive hardcourt campaign this year, with his latest victory at the Vienna Open in Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The on-court triumph was de Minaur&#8217;s 38th victory on the surface this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The world No.7 proved far too good for Jurij Rodionov, crushing the local hope 6-4 6-1 in their round-of-32 clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Win number 300 also saw the &#8216;Demon&#8217; become\u00a0only the second player born in 1999 or later to have achieved the milestone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The on-court roadrunner is in decent company, with the only other player to have achieved the feat being four-time major winner and world No.2 <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/jannik-sinner\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c477a640-ae14-11f0-9b08-db4d8a5d2190\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-78485657bf3baabb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103160407-15211129-image-a-64_1761008169727.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Australia's top-ranked tennis player Alex de Minaur has chalked up a significant personal milestone, winning his 300th career match on the ATP circuit\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Australia&#8217;s top-ranked tennis player Alex de Minaur has chalked up a significant personal milestone, winning his 300th career match on the ATP circuit<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-17f390692cd550ab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103160451-15211129-The_Aussie_is_ranked_seven_in_the_world_but_has_never_progressed-a-1_176101130046.jpeg\" height=\"1200\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Aussie is ranked seven in the world - but has never progressed beyond the quarter-finals at a grand slam (pictured, with fianc\u00e9e Katie Boulter)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The Aussie is ranked seven in the world &#8211; but has never progressed beyond the quarter-finals at a grand slam (pictured, with fianc\u00e9e Katie Boulter)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s pretty cool,&#8217; de Minaur said post match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;You go through this sport, through your career, and you don&#8217;t really get time or many options to really let something sink in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;This is one of those things that is a pretty cool moment, to get to 300 (wins).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Obviously it seems what has been a long career, and I&#8217;ve enjoyed those 300 victories.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">De Minaur, 26, was at his bustling best against the Austrian world No.154, who early on looked inspired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Rodionov&#8217;s game fell apart in the second set as the third-seed de Minaur cruised to victory in 80 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">De Minaur, who claimed his 10th career title when he took out the Washington Open in July, is seeded behind Sinner and world No.3 Alexander Zverev in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And de Minaur is well aware if he is to emulate the likes of Lleyton Hewitt and Ash Barty, he must go deeper in majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Sydney-raised star is yet to progress beyond the quarter-finals at any of the four slams after entering the ATP top 10 for the first time in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"linkButtonRowItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/alex-de-minaur\/index.html?ico=article_topics_module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex de Minaur<\/a><a class=\"linkButtonRowItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/jannik-sinner\/index.html?ico=article_topics_module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Aussie tennis star Alex de Minaur achieves major career milestone: &#8216;pretty cool moment&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie has won 300 matches on the ATP circuit Turned pro in 2015, now nestled in world top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[11809,186,92,4718,93,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-516882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-de-minaur","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115411971880123473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}