Future Star of the Week – Alex de Minaur

Alex de Minaur isn’t your usual Aussie teenager. Ranked #38 in the Men’s singles tour, the “Demon” has a lethal backhand and is The Sporting Base’s Future Star of the Week after his heroic efforts in the recent US Open at Flushing Meadows, where he was bundled out in the third round to Croatian Marin Cilic.

Alex’s father Anibal is of Uruguayan decent and his mother Esther, Spanish. Born in Sydney, he called Australia home for the first five years of his life before the family pulled up stumps and made their way to Alicante, Spain where he began his primary school education. The eldest of four children (Alex, Daniel, Sarah and Christina), the de Minaur’s returned to Australia in 2012, then, in 2016 Alex’s father sold up a chain of car wash businesses in Sydney to again travel half way round the world to Spain. Alex has since travelled back and forth between the two countries and still to this day is supported by Tennis Australia and has been given every opportunity to become one of the World’s up and coming tennis sensations.

Alex started playing Tennis at only four years of age after his mother signed him up for lessons. From there, they would travel all around the countryside competing in tournaments. He idolised Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer growing up and like his heroes, thrives on the grass courts. De Minaur hopes to one day win the Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Alex is multilingual speaking fluent English, French and Spanish.

Away from Tennis, Alex is a keen golfer and believes that if he wasn’t on the ATP he’d be on the fairways honing his craft with the irons. He supports Real Madrid, a team his mother has followed since she was a child in Football’s La Liga competition.

Congratulations Alex, you represent your country with pride and are a star on the rise!