Alex De Minaur vanquishes Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-1 6-3 in the semifinal in Toronto on Saturday after playing a superlative match to play Jannik Sinner in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes. This will be his best result in this competition. In the past, the best he could do was reach the 3rd round in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Alex added to his prize money $ 252,255 after winning this match. He has already won $ 556,630 after this win. If he wins the next match, De Minaur will add $ 462,705 to his earnings to get in total $ 1,019,335 in total.
Highlights Alex De Minaur vs. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina National Bank Open – Toronto
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:17
At the end of the match, Alex scored 59 points vs. Alejandro’s 40.
De Minaur
Alex was well focused in converting 78% of the break points that he procured (7/9).
Davidovich Fokina
On the other side, Davidovich Fokina was far from perfect in converting his break points (only 33% – 3/9). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between De Minaur and Davidovich Fokina is 2-3 for Alejandro.
Draw and next match H2H: Alex De Minaur vs. Jannik Sinner – stats
De Minaur will take on Sinner in the final.
This will be the 5th time that Alex De Minaur and Jannik Sinner fight against each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Sinner (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
Live score progression and stats
De Minaur commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. De Minaur reinforced his lead after breaking Davidovich Fokina in the 6th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).
Davidovich Fokina was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-1 to 6-1.
The Australian converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A), the 6th (4-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (6-0 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, the Spaniard was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 5th game (1-3 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 47 points. De Minaur was the winner of the set after clinching 13 more points than the Spaniard (30-17). Alex dropped 7 points on serve (17-7). On the losing side, the Spaniard conceded 13 points on serve (10-13).
De Minaur was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, that wasn’t sufficient for De Minaur to win the set as Alejandro found the way to break back in the 4th (1-3), in the 6th (2-4) and in the 8th (3-5) game. The Australian kept his cool to break Alejandro in the 5th (4-1), in the 7th (5-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Alex failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 15.
The Spaniard lost the 3rd game (3-0) when he was 40-0 up.
De Minaur was on the money in converting all his break points in the 2nd (2-0 40-A), the 5th (3-1 0-40), the 7th (4-2 30-40) and the 9th game (5-3 15-40). On the other side, Alejandro converted 42% of his break points (3/7). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40 and 40-A), the 4th (0-3 30-40), the 6th (1-4 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (2-5 15-40).
They contested 52 points. Alex was the winner of the set after clinching 6 points more than the Spaniard (29-23). Alex conceded 17 points on serve (12-17). on the other side of the net, Alejandro conceded 17 points on serve (6-17).
Tennis Scores in Toronto
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Tommy PaulPaul (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (4-0) – H2H details and stats
