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Ian Chadband

No longer the NextGen hope, now the teens target Demon

Maybe it's those eternally boyish looks that makes it easy to forget, but Alex de Minaur is no longer in that bracket of youthful tennis wannabes, the 'NextGen' brigade.

Instead, they're looking across the net at him.

On Thursday, de Minaur, now in his 10th full year as a hardened old stager on the ATP tour and very possibly in his prime at 25, will face arguably the best of the new teenage battalion when he tackles Jakub Mensik, in the last-16 of the Rotterdam Open.

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