{"id":191146,"date":"2025-09-01T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191146\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:56:27","slug":"alex-de-minaur-suggests-what-he-thinks-of-the-courts-at-the-us-open-compared-to-the-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191146\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur suggests what he thinks of the courts at the US Open compared to the Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alex de Minaur is now just one win away from matching his best finish at a Grand Slam, with a fourth-round clash with Leandro Riedi up next.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Australian advanced via walkover after his third-round opponent, Daniel Altmaier, was forced to retire due to injury in the fourth set of their clash.<\/p>\n

He has enjoyed a promising hard-court swing so far, having won the Washington Open before reaching the quarterfinals at the Canadian Open, where de Minaur bowed out to Ben Shelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the US Open<\/a>, the 26-year-old has dropped just one set in his pursuit of finally reaching a major semifinal.<\/p>\n

\"AlexPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesAlex de Minaur compares the US Open courts to the Australian Open<\/p>\n

De Minaur<\/a> has enjoyed most of his success at Grand Slams on the hard courts at Flushing Meadows, having reached the last eight there twice. <\/p>\n

The surface suits him well, with the world number eight tallying a win percentage of 65% on the concrete, higher than his totals on both clay and grass. <\/p>\n

When asked about the differences in the hard courts at the US Open compared to his home Slam, the Australian Open, de Minaur said: \u201cYeah, look, it\u2019s there are some similarities, of course. I think they\u2019re both quite quick surfaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ball travels through the air quite quickly, maybe even a little bit quicker here at the US Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get some great crowd support, some very loud vocal crowd support, which is quite similar both in Oz and here.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference is, I mean, at the Australian Open, I\u2019m just around the corner, right? I don\u2019t have an hour commute coming in every day, which is a lot nicer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut look, this tournament has been quite special in my career. It\u2019s given me a lot of good memories and great results, and yeah, I just feel comfortable here in New York, so hopefully I\u2019ll get some more good results here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex de Minaur\u2019s struggle to make it past the quarterfinals at majors<\/p>\n

Since his Grand Slam debut in 2017, de Minaur has made five quarterfinals at majors, with two of them coming in the Big Apple. <\/p>\n

He first managed the feat in 2020 at the US Open, where he won his first four matches at the tournament before falling to eventual champion Dominic Thiem<\/a> in straight sets. <\/p>\n

Nearly four years passed before de Minaur would return to a Grand Slam quarterfinal, which he did three times in 2024, at Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and in New York. <\/p>\n

His most recent last-eight finish was at the Australian Open this year, which he will now hope to improve on in the next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur is now just one win away from matching his best finish at a Grand Slam,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":191147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[60098,62,1464,67,132,68,10118],"class_list":{"0":"post-191146","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-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-us-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115128210961854912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}