Stage set for Alex de Minaur to play Jannik Sinner in Australian Open quarter-final

This was de Minaur’s fourth consecutive trip to the round-of-16 in Melbourne, including straight-sets defeats from Sinner (2022) and Novak Djokovic (2023) before the heartbreak of losing to Andrey Rublev last year from two-sets-to-one up.

This year always loomed as his great chance to break…