Alex de Minaur delivered a ruthless display to dispatch a\u00a0badly out of sorts Grigor Dimitrov 6-0, 6-0 in a staggering Monte Carlo Masters quarter-final.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old Aussie needed only 44 minutes to book his spot in a maiden clay-court Masters 1000 semi-final.<\/p>\n
In his on-court interview with Tennis TV, de Minaur<\/a> was asked if he knew that this was his first-ever \u2018double bagel\u2019 win.<\/p>\n \u201cI did know that, and in fact I know that the only time that I ever lost love and love (0-6, 0-6) myself was to Tommy Paul in the semi-finals of US Open Juniors. So yeah, it\u2019s pretty crazy,\u201d said the world No 10.<\/p>\n On being the first Australian man to reach the Monte Carlo semi-finals since John Alexander in 1979, de Minaur added: \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing feeling. With the troubles I\u2019ve had at the start of my career on this surface, I didn\u2019t quite understand it, and how to play well on this surface.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the years have gone by I have grown to understand the things I can do well on this surface to be a tough opponent and I\u2019m very happy that I\u2019m playing better and better every year.\u201d<\/p>\n As clinical and impressive as de Minaur was, it was a brutal outing for Dimitrov<\/a> \u2014 with the world No 18 yet to reveal whether he was hampered by any physical ailments.<\/p>\n Here are the stats behind the incredibly lopsided contest \u2014 and they make for difficult reading from a Dimitrov perspective.<\/p>\n The last eight clash marks the first time a Masters 1000 match at the quarter-final, semi-final or final stage has ended with a 6-0, 6-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n Dimitrov landed just one winner in the match, while a staggering 23 of the 63 points played ended with unforced errors from the 33-year-old Bulgarian\u2019s racket.<\/p>\n De Minaur, meanwhile, made seven winners and eight unforced errors.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz achieves outstanding Masters 1000 stat by beating Arthur Fils in Monte Carlo thriller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic\u2019s schedule may be hurting him in 2025 \u2013 does he need to change direction?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n None of the 12 games went to deuce (40-40), with Dimitrov reaching 30 in just six games.<\/p>\n De Minaur won an overwhelming 48 of the 63 points played (76%) as Dimitrov won 10 points in the first set and just five points in an astonishingly one-sided second set.<\/p>\n The Australian\u2019s quarter-final demolition came after he crushed Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 6-2 in the last 16 and won the second and third sets against Tomas Machac 6-0, 6-3 in the second round.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz edges closer to Alexander Zverev in rankings with Monte Carlo feat<\/a> The post The incredible stats behind Alex de Minaur\u2019s record win over Grigor Dimitrov in Monte Carlo<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex de Minaur delivered a ruthless display to dispatch a\u00a0badly out of sorts Grigor Dimitrov 6-0, 6-0 in a staggering Monte Carlo Masters quarter-final. The 26-year-old Aussie needed only 44 minutes to book his spot in a maiden clay-court Masters 1000 semi-final. In his on-court interview with Tennis TV, de Minaur was asked if he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A piece of Masters 1000 history<\/h4>\n
Dimitrov\u2019s shocking winner to unforced error ratio<\/h4>\n
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No deuces<\/h4>\n
48 points to 15<\/h4>\n
De Minaur\u2019s dominant streak<\/h4>\n
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