Australian tennis star Alex de Minaur has been bundled out of Roland-Garros by world No.4 Alexander Zverev.

Zverev won their quarter-final in straight sets on Thursday morning (AEST).

Each player broke early in the first set but Zverev won it 6-4, then de Minaur had a key chance to win the second but went down in a tiebreak.

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De Minaur looked the better player for much of the second set and shot out to a 4-0 lead in the tiebreak after securing a couple of mini-breaks.

But the German fought back to take it 7-5 and maintain the acendency.

Zverev then won the third set 6-4 to progress to a semi-final against Casper Ruud.

The German didn’t have it easily, though.

He had the chance to serve it out at 5-2 until the Aussie staged a fightback.

But ultimately Zverev proved clinical in securing the victory to progress to the final four.

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Ruud secured a walkover to the semis after Novak Djokovic withdrew from the tournament due to a knee injury.

The winner of that match will take on either Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner in Monday’s final.

Zverev extended his current winning streak to 11 matches, including a title on clay at the Italian Open last month.

The fourth-seeded Zverev is competing in Paris as a court proceeding continues in his home country of Germany, connected to accusations of physical abuse by a former girlfriend of his.

Zverev, who is 0-3 in French Open semi-finals so far, is trying to win his first grand slam title.

So is No.7 Ruud, who lost in the finals at Roland-Garros in 2022 (to Rafael Nadal) and 2023 (to Djokovic) and at the US Open in 2022 (to Alcaraz).

Zverev lost to Dominic Thiem in the final of the 2020 US Open and won a gold medal in singles at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago.

After eliminating 14-time champion Nadal in the first round, Zverev was coming off a pair of five-setters in the third and fourth rounds.

This victory was far less complicated, although it could have been far more difficult than it was: de Minaur was one point from tying things at a set apiece while Zverev served down 6-5 in the second.

But the German fought that off.

The third set appeared to shift Zverev’s way for good when de Minaur double-faulted to get broken and fall behind 4-2.

When Zverev served for the victory at 5-3, however, de Minaur used a delicate drop volley to break and extend the match.

It wouldn’t last much longer, because Zverev broke right back to end it.

All in all, it was not a particularly clean match. They combined for more than twice as many unforced errors (101) as winners (48).

De Minaur was the first Australian man to reach the quarter-finals in France since Lleyton Hewitt 20 years earlier.

– with AP