By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Monday, January 20, 2025
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Home hero Alex de Minaur pulled the plug on Alex Michelsen’s electric Australian Open run.
The peedy de Minaur raced through eight straight games sparking a 6-0, 7-6(5), 6-3 thrashing of the 20-year-old Michelsen to reach his first Australian Open quarterfinal.
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World No. 8 de Minaur is just the third Aussie man in the last 20 years to reach the last eight in Melbourne joining his Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt (2005) and Nick Kyrgios (2015) in achieving the feat.
The 25-year-old de Minaur advanced to his fourth straight major quarterfinal becoming the eighth Australian man in the Open Era to reach quarterfinals at all four Grand Slam tournaments.
Playing at night for the first time in this AO, Michelsen said he struggled adapting to slower conditions. Michelsen attributed his eight-game…
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