Source :- PERTH NOW NEWS
Alex de Minaur’s year has hit a new low as Australia’s No. 1 suffered a shocking last-16 defeat at the Barcelona Open.
De Minaur, who had just finished his encouraging clay-court debut at the Monte Carlo Masters but had to endure a disappointing defeat to Valentin Vacherot, had to settle for a deflating 6-4 6-3 damage to world number. On Wednesday, 88 Hamad Medjedovic performed at Barcelona’s Real Club de Tenis.
De Minaur never really had the best of his races as he succumbed to the 22-year-old Bosnian idea in an hour and 35 hours while his serve performed but ill and he only managed to land 36 pct of his first sales on the Rafa Nadal Court.
But it was obvious that the earth had no. Next plant in Barcelona, 7 de Minaur, don’t get back into the game in the second collection, particularly when he had a break point at 4-3 but was frustrated when he was given a review and umpiring call just as he thought he had sealed the split.
De Minaur, who had to make just one of his nine crack points, and Medjedovic, who had only saved a match stage in a qualifying match, pulled off those last three games to earn perhaps the biggest triumph of his youthful career, making his first ATP 500 quarter-final appearance.
