Alex De Minaur downs Denis Shapovalov 6-76 6-4 6-2 in the Round Robin in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney on Sunday. De Minaur will clash against Stefanos Tsitsipas in the next round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, Shapovalov won the breaker at 6.
The Canadian missed the opportunity to break De Minaur in the 7th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
De Minaur enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Shapovalov in the 1st game (1-0). However, there was more work to do for the Australian to win the set as Shapovalov succeeded in breaking back in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 6th (4-2) game. The Australian maintained his focus to break Denis in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before managing to win the set (6-4).
Denis was eclipsed in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).
3rd set.
De Minaur conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Shapovalov in the 1st game (1-0). The Australian managed to boost his lead after breaking Denis in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
Statistics
At the end of the match, De Minaur scored 117 points vs. Denis’s 111 points.
Alex won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 36% (5/14). On the other side, Denis was not so effective in converting his break points (only 13% – 2/16). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between De Minaur and Shapovalov is 2-0 for Alex.
Highlights Alex De Minaur vs. Denis Shapovalov ATP Cup – Brisbane, Perth, Sydney
De Minaur’s Interview
Next Match: Alex De Minaur vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas – stats
De Minaur will square off with Tsitsipas in the next round.
This will be the 5th time that Alex De Minaur and Stefanos Tsitsipas clash against each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tsitsipas won 6-3 6-4 in the 3rd round in Paris back in 2019.
Tennis Scores in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-76 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – John IsnerIsner (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Steve DarcisDarcis – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – David GoffinGoffin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (3-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Guido PellaPella – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Pablo CuevasCuevas (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (4-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Marin CilicCilic – Dennis NovakNovak (6-74 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Kevin AndersonAnderson (7-65 7-66) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Martin CuevasCuevas (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Lloyd HarrisHarris (3-6 7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-73 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Christian GarinGarin (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Borna CoricCoric – Dominic ThiemThiem (7-64 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (7-66 7-64) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – John IsnerIsner (6-73 7-610 7-5) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Rafael NadalNadal – Pablo CuevasCuevas (4-1) – See H2H details
- Andy MurrayMurray – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – See H2H details
- Go SoedaSoeda – Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Martin CuevasCuevas (0-0) – See H2H details
- Fabio FogniniFognini – John IsnerIsner (0-2) – See H2H details
- Steve DarcisDarcis – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Kevin AndersonAnderson (5-1) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Gael MonfilsMonfils (15-0) – See H2H details
- Marin CilicCilic – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – See H2H details
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Daniel EvansEvans – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (0-0) – See H2H details
- David GoffinGoffin – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (1-8) – See H2H details
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Benoit PairePaire (1-1) – See H2H details
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Pablo CuevasCuevas (1-1) – See H2H details
- Lucas PouillePouille – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (5-2) – See H2H details
- Dennis NovakNovak – Guido PellaPella (0-0) – See H2H details
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aleksandre MetreveliMetreveli – Martin CuevasCuevas (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-1) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – See H2H details
- Borna CoricCoric – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (1-0) – See H2H details
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (4-0) – See H2H details
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-0) – See H2H details
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Nicolas JarryJarry (1-0) – See H2H details
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (1-0) – See H2H details