{"id":26624,"date":"2025-11-13T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/alex-de-minaur-defeats-taylor-fritz-to-win-first-atp-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:44:50","slug":"alex-de-minaur-defeats-taylor-fritz-to-win-first-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/alex-de-minaur-defeats-taylor-fritz-to-win-first-atp-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur defeats Taylor Fritz to win first ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TURIN, Italy &#8212; Alex de Minaur scored his first win at the ATP Finals, giving the Australian a chance to advance to the semi-finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur defeated Taylor Fritz 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the season finale between the top eight players for his first win in six games since his debut last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We finally won here in Turin,&#8221; De Minaur said.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh-seeded de Minaur needs a straight-sets win to remain in contention for a place in the semi-finals, which will be earned if Carlos Alcaraz defeats Lorenzo Musetti in a late match on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If Alcaraz wins, the Spaniard will be confirmed as number one in the year-end rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever happens, happens,&#8221; De Minaur added. &#8220;But I&#8217;m not going to pay too much attention to tennis. I&#8217;m going to have a relaxing and fun evening here in Turin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur never looked back after winning the tie-break and had a chance to seal the victory when Fritz&#8217;s serve forced him to match point, but the American held on. De Minaur was nervous about his serve as he aimed for victory.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti will advance to the semi-finals if he defeats Alcaraz. Sixth-seeded Fritz, who reached the final in Turin last year, was eliminated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TURIN, Italy &#8212; Alex de Minaur scored his first win at the ATP Finals, giving the Australian a chance to advance to the semi-finals on Thursday. De Minaur defeated Taylor Fritz 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the season finale between the top eight players for his first win in six games since his debut last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[345,2423,27,111,2619,1151,2618,24,30],"class_list":["post-26624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alex","tag-atp","tag-defeats","tag-finals","tag-fritz","tag-minaur","tag-taylor","tag-tennis","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}