SHANGHAI — Seventh-seeded Alex De Minaur grew to become the third participant this season to win 50 tour-level video games by defeating Nuno Borges 7-5, 6-2 on the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday.
De Minaur hit 19 winners on the way in which to achieve his seventh Masters 1000 quarterfinal in a single hour and 47 minutes.
Solely top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz with 67 wins and Taylor Fritz with 50 have already reached the 50-win mark in 2025.
In his earlier greatest season, De Minaur had 47 wins in 2024, and two titles.
He can be dealing with subsequent Sixteenth-seeded Daniil Medvedev who defeated Learner Tien 7-6 (6), 6-7 (1), 6-4.
Additionally, the Twelfth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime knocked out eighth-seeded Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-2 to arrange up a quarterfinal towards Arthur Rinderknech who upset one other seeded participant, No. 15 Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 7-6 (5).
The 54th-ranked Rinderknech who eradicated third-seeded Alexander Zverev, has joined his cousin Valentin Vacherot within the quarters.
