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Do we like Alex de Minaur?

Our score: 7 out of 10. A clean record on harm and a decent one on character, but he's thin on using his platform for causes, so not top marks.

De Minaur is a Sydney-raised tennis player whose childhood was split between Australia and Spain. He climbed to the top ten the hard way, on grit and foot speed rather than a huge serve. Australian tennis has been waiting on a homegrown star since Lleyton Hewitt, and he's the closest thing.

The biggest stoush on his record is old now. In February 2022 Spanish media reported he was among about 2,200 people under investigation for allegedly paying a ring for forged vaccination certificates. He denied it, saying he was not under investigation “in any way”. The article reports no finding against him, and we found no later outcome.

On the harm test, we found nothing. No remarks on LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, the climate or public health turned up in his own words, and no record of him platforming anyone who pushes that stuff. The nasty political quotes that did circulate in 2026 weren't his: AAP FactCheck found they were fake, and said there's no record of him making them.

That also means the record is thin. He's careful and keeps to tennis, so there's no loud stand for anyone to cheer. On this page, silence from a sportsperson isn't harm, but it isn't a gold star either.

The good stuff is real, if low-key. He launched the Alex de Minaur Foundation with Tennis Australia in January 2025 to help young Aussie players, and he hosted kids at an on-court Weet-Bix experience at the 2026 Australian Open build-up. In 2024 he also joined other players volunteering at a Miami Open Unites community event, planting seeds for food donations.

So: would we support him? Yes. He's a hard worker who's kind to the next generation and has no harmful baggage we could find. He's lost a few matches in 2026, but that's a form problem, not a character problem.