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De Minaur, who reached the 2018 final in Washington, fired a double fault on his second match point in the second-set tie-break and failed to serve out the match at 5-2 in the decider. Yet he responded with a service hold to love in the ultimate game to seal a two-hour, 45-minute victory.

“I dug really deep. I didn’t want to lose having a match point in the second set and hitting a double fault,” he said. “I told myself I was going to struggle to sleep at night, so I better do everything I can to try and win that match. It was a tough, tough match.”

With his 39th ATP 500 match win since the start of 2023, De Minaur tied Carlos Alcaraz for the most victories at that level during that period. 

The 26 year-old also boasts a Tour-leading 19 wins on hard courts this year, highlighted by runs to the quarter-finals at the Australian Open and to the championship match in Rotterdam.