Published: 2019-01-13
The young emerging player Alex de Minaur is gaining experience on the professional tennis circuit and has become the youngest winner of the Sydney tournament following his victory over Andreas Seppi of Italy in the men's final match at the Sydney International. Due to his winning, he has secured the prize money of $951,038.
While growing up his idols were Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer, and the right-hander decided to turn pro like them- achieving the feat in 2015. The likes of Rafael Nadal have acknowledged his tennis skills and considered him as an 'actual threat.'
19-year-old tennis prodigy Alex was born to his parents Anibal de Minaur and Esther de Minaur. His Spanish born mother Esther is a housekeeper, and his Uruguayan born father Anibal was an owner at an Italian resturant in Sydney. His parents had a romantic encounter when Esther went to work at Anibal's George Street Italian resturant as a waitress.
In 2011, his family suffered a financial crisis where they could not even afford Alex to finance his traveling. That's when his longtime coach Adolfo Gutierrez stepped up and did everything he could to help him. Alex's mother Esther described his coach Adolfo as:
In his family, Alex is an eldest among his four siblings. He has a brother and two sisters whose names are Dominic, Sara, and Christina respectively. The tennis player proudly shared the moment of his family snapshot on social media during the Christmas in December 2017.
His parents Anibal and Esther ran the Italian family resturant business for two decades and closed it when Alex was at the age of 16. His hardworking father Anibal then opened a few car washes in Spain.
Though Alex has spent most of his life in Spain, in the January 2019 interview with smh.com.au, the tennis player uttered that he feels a strong bond and loves Australia. The emerging player is entirely focused on developing his tennis career and has set his ultimate goal to represent the green and gold. That may be the reason why Alex has yet to drop a single hint regarding his possible girlfriend, as of January 2019.
Born as Alex Andrew Mike de Minaur on 17 February 1999, Alex is a native of Sydney, Australia. At the age of five, Alex moved to Alicante where he split time growing up between Australia and Spain. The tennis player whose nickname is 'Demon' is a trilingual and is fluent at English, Fench, and Spanish, as per wiki. Alex has a height of 1.83 m (6 feet) and holds dual Australian and Spanish nationality.
The tennis player was residing in Alicante during his childhood when Adolfo Gutierrez coached him. Since then, he has been receiving training from his coach and has been mentored by former world tennis champion, Lloyd Hewitt. Alex's professionalism in tennis places him as the highest ranked Australian male player in singles. He has topped the Australian ranking leaderboard where he earns the #1 spot, and in the ATP Ranking, he ranks #29, as of January 2019.