Rather than sets, players play eight-minute quarters, where the player who wins a majority of the points is declared the winner. De Minaur defeated Rune, 14-8, 14-11, 16-10, to lift the trophy after finishing runner-up to Andrey Rublev at the Oslo edition in February. The Aussie also pocketed a $421,800 purse, plus a $375,000 bonus for playing three of the four UTS events this year.
The windfall is a sweet ending to de Minaur’s first year-end Top 10 season, in which he reached three Grand Slam quarterfinals, earned his first win over a world No. 1 player (Novak Djokovic, in January) and qualified for the year-end ATP Finals in Turin for the first time.
That, in spite of a hip injury that derailed his summer between Wimbledon and the US Open, and impact him throughout the season’s final months.
