De Minaur hits large milestone, advances to Shanghai QFs & strikes nearer to Turin

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De Minaur hits large milestone, advances to Shanghai QFs & strikes nearer to Turin

Rinderknech joins cousin Vacherot within the quarter-finals

October 08, 2025

Alex de Minaur recorded his fiftieth tour-level victory of the season on Wednesday on the Rolex Shanghai Masters, the place he moved previous Nuno Borges 7-5, 6-2 to achieve his seventh ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final.

De Minaur is simply the third man to hit the 50-win mark in 2025, becoming a member of Carlos Alcaraz (67) and Taylor Fritz (50), with the Australian incomes a Tour-leading 37 victories on arduous courts. Enjoying with confidence and managed aggression in opposition to Borges, De Minaur struck 19 winners to only 10 unforced errors en path to a one-hour, 47-minute triumph within the pair’s first Lexus ATP Head2Head assembly.

De Minaur’s earlier finest season in 2024 culminated in 47 wins and two titles, in accordance with the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index. Having lifted the trophy on the ATP 500 occasion in Washington in August, the 26-year-old is chasing his second title of the yr in Shanghai, the place he’ll subsequent meet Daniil Medvedev or #NextGenATP American Learner Tien.

“For me it simply reveals consistency and that’s what I’m most happy with,” De Minaur stated on incomes 50 tour-level wins. “Displaying up each single week and it’s a tremendous quantity. I hope for a lot of extra to complete off the yr and never keep at 50. It has been a profitable journey to Asia to this point. I advised myself in the beginning of the week that it was all going to be an enormous psychological effort to go on the market and compete. I’m glad to be within the quarter-finals and provides myself one other alternative.”

De Minaur arrived in Shanghai off the again of a semi-final displaying in Beijing and his newest run is additional enhancing his Nitto ATP Finals qualification probabilities. The ten-time tour-level champion is seventh within the PIF ATP Dwell Race To Turin, 740 factors away from Tenth-placed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who’s the primary participant exterior the High 8 lower as a result of ninth-placed Jack Draper being sidelined for the remainder of the yr with damage.

De Minaur, who made his debut on the prestigious year-end occasion in 2024, would rise to fourth within the Dwell Race if he captures his maiden Masters 1000 title in Shanghai.

Earlier, Arthur Rinderknech backed up his win in opposition to World No. 3 Alexander Zverev by defeating Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 7-6(5) to achieve his maiden Masters 1000 quarter-final. The Frenchman, who’s as much as No. 43 within the PIF ATP Dwell Rankings, has joined his cousin Valentin Vacherot within the final eight. Following his win, Rinderknech wrote a message of assist for qualifier Vacherot, who’s the primary Monegasque participant to achieve a tour-level quarter-final in historical past.