ATP roundup: Alex de Minaur gets through tight Washington opener
The defending champion won in three sets and will face 17-year-old qualifier Cruz Hewitt, the son of Lleyton Hewitt, in the second round.
- On Wednesday, defending champion Alex de Minaur defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 at the Washington Open, advancing to face teenager Cruz Hewitt in the second round.
- Tsitsipas, the former world number three from Greece, had dominated their head-to-head series by winning 12 of 13 prior encounters before de Minaur turned the tables on Thursday.
- De Minaur recently married British player Katie Boulter and was revealed this week as a competitor in the Six Kings Slam, which offers $8.6 million to the winner.
- The victory sets up an all-Australian second-round clash on Friday against Cruz Hewitt, whom de Minaur describes as "like my older brother."
- Cruz Hewitt, son of tennis great Lleyton Hewitt, continues his breakthrough after reaching the Wimbledon boys' final last month, now emerging from his father's substantial shadow.
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Defending champ de Minaur beats Hewitt in first of ‘many battles to come’
Australia’s world No.6 Alex de Minaur won his much-anticipated second-round clash with teenage rising star Cruz Hewitt at the Washington Open.
ATP roundup: Alex de Minaur gets through tight Washington opener
Defending champion Alex de Minaur of Australia needed just over two hours to win his first-round match at the Mubadala DC Open, getting past Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Wednesday. de Minaur logged twice as many double faults as aces...
Alex De Minor "bent" Stefanos Tsitsipas with a 2-1 set and qualified for the second round of the "Mubadala DC Open" in Washington. The Greek tennis player broke out on his racket again. The post Washington: Disqualification for Tsitsipas who broke out on his racket (vid) appeared first on in.gr.
The Greek tennis player broke his racket in the third set, lost the match in Washington to De Minor 2-1 and was eliminated.
On Thursday, the Australian Cruz Hewitt, 612th World Player and Qualifying player, went down in the eighth final of the Washington ATP tournament in the United States, hard, against his compatriot Alex De Minaur, 6th World Player, lead number one and holding the title, in two small rounds (6-2, 6-3) and only 1h01 of the game. In the first round, Cruz Hewitt lost his first three services, including the last white, and then found himself pretty qu…
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