De Minaur took a first career title, beating Andreas Seppi in the Sydney final. The Italian veteran was actually up a break in both sets, but those were somewhat of an aberration they were his only breakpoints in the match. Ultimately this was De Minaur's to lose, with his hefty superiority on serve: 73% first serve vs 52%, and more potent with those he landed. From the baseline his movement and effort allowed him to to outlast Seppi, with the home crowd providing an extra edge when needed. "It's crazy that this actually happened," he said in the on-court interview. "I thought it wouldn't happen. Third time lucky, and you guys don't know how much it means to do it in front of all you guys, in front of my home." De Minaur 21w 33ue; Seppi 27w 41ue. De Minaur 7/5 7/6.
This was great to see this young talent win his first career title against a pretty good opponent in Seppi, it was never going to be an easy task for De Minaur but he outplayed Seppi on the day and deserved the win. I just hope that this hasn't taken a lot out of De Minaur just a couple of days before the Australian Open and that he had to play two matches on the same day. The organisers of the Sydney International got the scheduling wrong and something needs to be done next year.
I knew you gonna say that.
. Well this might be the start of something big for this kid and for the Australian tennis in general. His young, I think his body can recover that fast although it might be mentally tough for him. I'm not aware of any mis-scheduling though, so the organizers screw everything and I hope that this is the last we're going to hear about that. So let's follow De Minaur career and just like I said, his developing and will improve in the next couple of years and hope to see him win a Grand Slam for Australian tennis.I just think they need to schedule the tournaments a lot better in Australia. To be honest we could have the Australian Open pushed back a week and it will finish in early February, see the problem we have in Australia is that all the tennis is played at the start of the year/s and they need to push as many tournaments in as possible for each of the states. Australia does have some tennis through out the year with Davis Cup but now that it has changed we won't see this. So maybe they can push the AO back a week so it gives players more time to rest and not have all the tournaments just days apart from each other.