Alex de Minaur launches his eighth main-draw marketing campaign at Roland Garros with a complete victory over big-hitting teen Alex Michelsen.
Paris, France , 29 Might 2024 | Vivienne Christie
Alex de Minaur launched his Roland Garros 2024 marketing campaign with a press release win, limiting big-hitting teenager Alex Michelsen to simply three video games of their first-round encounter.
De Minaur, the match’s No.11 males’s seed, accomplished his 6-1 6-0 6-2 victory after a protracted wait to take to Simmone-Mathieu Courtroom on a cool and wet day in Paris.
“(It was) not straightforward on the market as we speak. Clearly a protracted day, stop-starting,” the Australian commented when requested about the important thing to his emphatic win.
“Greater than something mentally and in addition coping with chilly and rain in your face. Simply needed to be stable and, yeah, be certain that I had good mentality as we speak. That’s in all probability an important factor.”
De Minaur’s composure in opposition to Michelsen, a Roland Garros main-draw debutante, was particulary spectacular given an upset loss to the 19-year-old at Los Cabos earlier this 12 months.
On that event although, stated De Minaur, he had made a swift turnaround after reaching the Rotterdam remaining in his earlier occasion.
“That match I flew from Rotterdam principally the evening earlier than from an indoor occasion to an outside occasion in Mexico,” he defined.
“So I in all probability wasn’t fairly able to play that match, however I undoubtedly was prepared as we speak.”
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Certainly, it was an completed efficiency from begin to end for De Minaur, who raced to a 5-0 lead earlier than Michelsen eventually registered a sport.
Overwhelmed by De Minaur’s trademark velocity, the annoyed teenager lastly gained an fringe of types when he broke the Australian to take a 2-0 lead within the remaining set.
It was a brief reprieve, with De Minaur shortly recovering by successful six straight video games and shortly securing the match.
As he prepares to face world No.64 Spaniard Jaume Munar within the second spherical, De Minaur will take confidence from his 28 winners in opposition to Michelsen – together with the deft backhand that secured his progress after one hour and 48 minutes on courtroom.
It supplies hope that after failing to progress past the second spherical in seven earlier campaigns in Paris, the top-ranked Australian is eventually poised for a deeper Roland Garros run.
“I’m a very completely different participant than earlier years on the floor. I really feel comfy. I really feel succesful,” stated the 24-year-old, who has registered wins over Novak Djokovic, Andrey Rublev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud this 12 months.
“Once more, I’m going to do my best possible as a result of in the end my objectives are, on the Slams, proper, to go deep.”
Fellow Australian Adam Walton was additionally buoyed by his first-round efficiency in Paris, even after a straight-sets exit to Arthur Rinderknech.
“Regardless of the loss it was nonetheless an unreal expertise and I believe that the extra possibilities you get to play on the massive stage, the higher you get,” stated Walton, after a heady interval that included his top-100 debut and his maiden look within the Roland Garros principal draw.
“I’m simply wanting ahead to the subsequent time I get to compete at a Grand Slam, which might be Wimbledon.”
Thanasi Kokkinakis additionally superior after an epic battle with countryman Alexei Popyin, with their five-set first spherical match spanning virtually four-and-a-half hours.
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Aussies in motion – Roland Garros
RESULTS
Males’s singles, first spherical
[11] Alex de Minaur (AUS) d Alex Michelsen (USA) 6-1 6-0 6-2
Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) d [WC] Adam Walton (AUS) 6-2 6-4 7-5
Luciano Darderi (ITA) d Rinky Hijikata (AUS) 6-3 7-6(6) 6-1
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) d Alexei Popyrin (AUS) 4-6 7-6(8) 6-3 5-7 6-3
COMING UP
Males’s singles, second spherical
[11] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v Jaume Munar (ESP)
Ladies’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Ingrid Gamarra Martins (BRA)/Olivia Nicholls (GBR)
Daria Saville (AUS)/Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) v [16] Miyu Kato (JPN)/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR)
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v Marton Fuscovics (HUN)/Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN)
Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v Tallon Griekspoor (NED)/Bart Stevens (NED)
John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Denys Molchanov (UKR) v Petros Tsitsipas (GRE)/Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)
Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/Guido Andreozzi (ARG) v Nicolas Barrientos (COL)/Francisco Cabral (POR)
John Friends (AUS)/Roman Safiullin v Yuki Bhambri (IND)/Albano Olivetti (FRA)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Denis Shapovalov (CAN) v [14] Nathaniel Lammons (USA)/Jackson Withrow (USA)
Blended doubles, first spherical
[1] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Matt Ebden (AUS) v [WC] Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (FRA)/Ugo Humbert (FRA)
Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA)/John Friends (AUS) v [5] Vera Zvonareva/Sander Gille (BEL)
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