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Alex de Minaur downs Zverev to make his Top 10 debut ahead of Australian Open 2024

Alex de Minaur has started 2024 with a bang. After downing World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in his last singles match, de Minaur has now beaten Alexander Zverev to make his ATP Top 10 debut. The 24-year-old Aussie won a three-set thriller to give Australia a chance to make the United Cup 2024 Final.

With the Australian Open 2024 starting in a week, Alex ‘Demon’ de Minaur has become the first Australian player since Lleyton Hewitt to enter the Top 10. Hewitt was Demon’s idol growing up. The Aussie legend was in the Top 10 in 2006, and now, 18 years later, a player who idolises him and plays like him has breached the ATP Top 10 for the first time.

WHAT A MOMENT!

24yo Alex De Minaur will become the first Australian player to reach the ATP Top 10 since Lleyton Hewitt in 2006.

He beats Alexander Zverev 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 and Australia stays alive at the United Cup semifinals.

AUS 1-1 GER, mixed doubles to come! pic.twitter.com/Sx9rz7rJiN

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) January 6, 2024

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