Alex de Minaur has pocketed one of the biggest pay-days of his best-ever season, scooping nearly $1 million for successfully defending his title in the innovative Ultimate Tennis Showdown grand final in London.
The world No.7 may be striving to make his ultimate breakthrough in traditional tennis, but he's become the master of the UTS format, a truncated, fast-paced version of the game played amid a noisy, floodlit rock 'n' roll backdrop unashamedly designed to woo a more youthful audience.
Having won the event at London's Copper Box Arena this time last year, the Australian No.1 ended his 2025 program by defeating world No.12 Casper Ruud in Sunday's final.
