Beware of gestures of love. It could backfire. The Australian tennis player’s touching demonstration of affection had become famous in the tennis world Alex de Minaur who had hastily abandoned the tournament awards ceremony last March ATP 500 of Acapulco in Mexico which saw him as the winner, to rush to the final match of his girlfriend the tennis player Katie Boulter in the WTA tournament in San Diego which she later won.
It was a question of covering around 2000 km in a very short time and he had succeeded. So much so that she had thanked him publicly during the awards ceremony, speaking on live TV: «I want to give a special thank you to my boyfriend – she underlined Boulter -. And I really want to embarrass him. He finished at midnight last night, got a cab at 4.15am and then caught a 6am flight to be here today. He traveled two thousand kilometres. I appreciate it”.
This time the same scenario but a completely different outcome, so much so that their relationship as a couple even seems to be at risk. De Minaur wins the Libema Open, ATP 250 on the grass of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Holland, on Sunday afternoon. In the evening in Nottingham Boulter beat Pliskova in three sets and won the WTA tournament Nottingham in the UK. But, instead of celebrating, she appears on live TV furious: «My boyfriend (de Minaur ed.) didn’t make the trip to come here. I thought he did it after the victory in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. We’ll have to talk about it later and see if we’ll still be together. I hope you’re hearing me: we need to talk.” It is not yet clear what happened next. What is certain is that de Minaur he certainly didn’t celebrate the conquest of number 7 in the ATP rankings.
