The Australian No 1 needs only to look at history to see the omens are good after a career-best performance at Roland Garros
f Alex de Minaur is looking for reasons to be optimistic as he tries to overcome the disappointment of narrowly missing out on a place in his first Grand Slam semi-final at Roland-Garros, he might cast his eye over history.of Germany in a gruelling quarter-final on Wednesday night, edged out by the German in slow, breezy conditions which made it especially hard for him to hit through the court.
“ lots to learn from,” he said. “These are the matches I want to be playing. I think it kind of shows the development and jump I’ve made as a player to be able to come out here and make quarters of my least-favourite surface, showing that I’m ready to take it to whoever and I’m going to give it my best against whoever. Looking forward now to jumping on the grass.”
The omens for a strong run on grass are good. Many players who would not classify themselves as clay-court experts have produced strong, surprising performances at Roland-Garros and then gone on to perform well on grass, and later the same year, hard courts.
Ninth in the live ATP rankings, equalling his career-high, De Minaur will begin his grass-court season in the Netherlands at the Libema Open before heading to Queen’s Club in London for the cinch Championships and then Wimbledon, where he will hope to exceed his previous best, a run to the fourth round in 2022, when he lost in a final-set tiebreak to Cristian Garin.
First, though, he will swap tennis for golf, another sporting love. “We’ll probably get on the golf course the next couple of days, play some golf,” he said. “The transition for me from the clay to the grass is one that I look forward to every year. At times you probably need time off the tennis court, but the sheer fact that I’m stepping on a grass court, it makes me be in a good place. So I’ll be on the grass on a golf course and on the grass on a tennis court. That’ll be me.
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