By Chris Oddo | @Thefanchild | Thursday 10 April 2025
Photo Source: Mark Peterson/ Corleve
Alex de minaur There has never been any problems to remain motivated. But fans can be surprised to learn what is currently running the man known as “Demon”.
After his 6-2, Daniil Medvedev Aussie’s 6-2 takedown said his wedding close to British star Katie Boulter is the current impulse for his greedy hunger in court.
“Realistically, what is pushing me at the moment is trying to earn some big dollars for this wedding budget,” De Mineur Tenis Channel told Thursday. “That’s the only thing in my mind – trying to win as many matches as I can because I’ve started looking at places and it’s expensive. I can tell you that.”
Leaving no stones intact
Joke aside, De Mineur made the first 10 places for the first time in 2024, and he says the experience – and the consequences – has left him only to want more.
The injuries hit the wrong time last year after he suffered a hip injury in Wimbledon, and he could not present the all -out physics he had become known.
Now leading the tournament on the 19th this season, Sydney’s native is not receiving it in 2025.
“Just having that hunger – hunger and driving,” he said. “Always is always there, but at the end of last year, putting myself in the position where I wanted to be for so long, but not being physically 100 percent, it really gave me a lot of car and hunger in Preseason.
“As soon as I was with Turin and Davis Cup, I took two days off, and I went directly to Preseason, and I just wanted to continue to improve and keep that moment. I saw all the things I was able to do without being at my peak physically, so for me was everything to return to 100 percent health and then seeing this year.”
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Demon in clay? Still a demon
Aussie has worked hard to become a more legitimate force in clay as well. Before 2023, it was 15-20 on the surface. Since then he has won 16 of 26 matches, including 2-0 this year and 12-5 since the beginning of 2024.
De Minaur says his willingness to hit more trajectory and create more angles has been a creator of great changes.
“I have really found my feet the last two years and I really started to understand what makes me effective in a clay court,” he said. “The first years of my career on the show. I wasn’t very effective. I wasn’t really comfortable on this surface; it took a while to finally understand.”
Current World No. 10, who will face either Grigor Dimitrov or Alejandro Tabilo in the quarter-finals in Monte-Carlo, says he still tries to be aggressive, but not too carelessly built on his rallies.
“I would say maybe the biggest difference is height and rotation,” he said. “Earth’s natural strikes are ultimately much heavier. I’m looking to open the court with angles and depth.
“In a strong stroke, my natural blow to the ground is already effective, as it is quite flat, but in clay, it is much less effective, and I have to find different ways to hurt my opponent, and it is very variety, speed, height, deep and still aggressive whenever I can.”
