Updated 26 May 2026
Top Australian player Alex de Minaur is one of the quickest players on tour, let’s look closer at his profile and of course what racquet he is using!
What racquet is Alex de Minaur using?
25-year-old de Minaur uses a pro stock version of the Wilson Steam 99
We had the fortune to test and measure De Minaur’s racquet. It is actually extended at 27.5 inch length, which gives him more reach and pop on to serve, especially. When measuring the specs on my Metortune I got the following:
Unstrung without overgrip: 308 SW, 305g, 33.5 cm balance
Strung with overgrip: 343.5, 329g, 34 cm balance
The racquet plays a bit like a tank. It is excellent on flat shots, which suits De Minaur’s style, but is not so maneuverable and spin-oriented. We got the De Minaur racquet from Holy Tennis, which offers 5% off to Tennisnerd users if you use the code tennisnerd5.
Biography and Career
Alex de Minaur was born on 17th February 1999 in Sydney, Australia but actually has dual citizenships, Australian and Spanish. He began playing tennis already at three years of age, at the Sydney Private Tennis Academy.
The family moved to Alicante (Spain) when Alex was still young, he basically split his time between Australia and Spain. Since he was nine he’s been coached by Adolfo Gutierrez while living in Spain. Playing on the junior circuit, de Minaur archived a career-high ranking of 2.
His professional debut came at the Spain F22 in July of 2015 and he was already given a wildcard for the 2016 Australian Open qualifying rounds, but got eliminated in the first round. His real Grand Slam debut came instead at the same tournament in 2017 where he reached the 2nd round.
2019 saw him win his first career title at the Sydney International where he beat Andreas Seppi in the final.
In recent years, De Minaur has been a solid player in or around the top 10, with great consistency, even though he’s still has a poor record against the top 5.
In total, Alex de Minaur has claimed 10 ATP titles and his best performances in Grand Slams are 4 quarter-final places, (US Open in 2020 & 2024, French Open 2024 and Wimbledon 2024).
Info / Stats
- De Minaur has earned a total of over $21M in prize money in his career, singles and doubles.
- In July 2024, De Minaur reached his career-high ranking of no 6.
- Alex De Minaur is still coached by Adolfo Gutierrez, since he was young. Former Australian star player Lleyton Hewitt is his mentor, but was never his coach.
- His nickname is Demon
- Plays right-handed with two-handed backhand.
- Favourite surface is grass
- Favorite tennis shot: backhand
- Also enjoys playing golf.
Follow Alex de Minaur
Follow Alex on his Instagram account, currently with around 500K followers or on his X.com profile with 66K followers.
So, his association with Technifiber is finished?
http://www.tecnifibre.com/athletes/tennis/men/alex-de-minaur
It does seem like that? Or maybe he’s just flirting with Wilson racquets. I think by Australian Open we will know! Cheers / Jonas
De Minaur just got sponsored by Wilson now, he’s rocking the racquet with a wilson stencil and a wilson bag (rather than his tecnifibre racpack pro) against todays game against verdasco, ferrer seems to be have sponsored by wilson now too has he has the pj and stencil
That tecnifibre link now comes up as an error!
A few years ago when I had shoulder trouble and I was looking for something lighter I switched to the [retail] Steam 99. However, I could not play consistently with it and I switched again as soon as I could find something else. Not a great frame in my experience.
What I find more intriguing is the Luxilon 4G. It was used by Ostapenko in her first slam win last year, and now by Svitolina who has been winning tournaments. I have noticed it used successfully by a few other players who have slipped from my mind — and now de Minaur. Yet the TW review for 4G is not glowing, and the ratings over on stringforum are decidedly mediocre. Perhaps it is just a coincidence. Have you tried 4G?