Alex De Minaur outlasts Reilly Opelka 7-62 6-74 7-63 in the semifinal in Basel on Saturday after conquering a huge battle. De Minaur will try to go further in the tournament when he will face Roger Federer in the final.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Alex won the set after he broke Reilly in the 7th (4-3) game. Opelka tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 10th (5-5) game. Anyhow, De Minaur kept the focus before winning the set at the following breaker at 2.
2nd set.
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, Reilly won the tiebreak at 4.
3rd set.
Also in this set, both players on each side were too good on serve and the affair had to be decided only at the breaker. Eventually, De Minaur won the breaker at 3.
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Australian scored 118 points vs. Opelka’s 100 points.
De Minaur served pretty well to win 85% of the points (50/59) behind his first serve, and he won 74% points (34/46) on his second serve. De Minaur fired 14 aces without committing any double fault. Alex didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (1/2). On the other side, Opelka was effective in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this contest, the head to head between De Minaur and Opelka is 4-0 for Alex.
Highlights Alex De Minaur vs. Reilly Opelka Swiss Indoors Basel – Basel
Next Match: Alex De Minaur vs. Roger Federer – stats
De Minaur will take on Federer in the final.
There is no head to head record between Alex De Minaur and Roger Federer since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Basel
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (7-62 6-74 7-63) – See score progression
- Roger FedererFederer – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Roger FedererFederer – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – See H2H details