Sydneysider tames American tyro Alex Michelsen 6-1 6-0 6-2 and looks well set to extend run deep into tournament
Alex de Minaur has helped dispel the gloom in the Australian tennis ranks with a virtuoso drought-busting victory on a rainy day at the French Open.
The 19-year-old Michelsen was left so battered and bamboozled, he ended up reduced to the sort of vintage teenage tantrum that John McEnroe would have been proud of, berating umpire Louis Boucharinc and screaming petulantly when a line call went against him in the final set.
As the rain spat on and off, de Minaur had to wait for five hours before he could finally get onto Simmone-Mathieu, the beautiful “garden” court set between four greenhouses, and when he finally did, his game had rarely bloomed on the clay as splendidly.
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