Lleyton Hewitt, the captain of Australia's Davis Cup team, is delighted to have world No. 35 Alex de Minaur in his team for the Davis Cup Finals. De Minaur, who will be Australia's highest-ranked player at the Davis Cup Finals, is expected to head the team.
In 2018, De Minaur made his Davis Cup debut. De Minaur won all four singles rubbers in 2019 after losing all three singles rubbers in 2018. De Minaur, a former world No. 15, won both Antalya 2 and Eastbourne this year.
"He’s had a really consistent three or four years and has established himself as a top player out there,” Hewitt said, “He plays well on the hard court surface and potentially played some of his best tennis two years ago in the Davis Cup Finals”
De Minaur, John Millman, Alexei Popyrin, Alex Bolt, and John Peers, according to Hewitt, are capable of leading Australia to the Davis Cup Finals. "We had a really good run in the Davis Cup Finals two years ago, where we ended up winning our group stage pretty convincingly,” Hewitt said, “We ended up losing an extremely tight quarterfinal with Canada, who went onto make the final, so that gives us a lot of confidence. “We have a slightly different team, but a lot of the guys have played in the Davis Cup before and understand the pressure and demand of representing your country and playing well”.
Hewitt was a part of the Australian team that won the Davis Cup in 1999 and 2003. "Davis Cup is always something that I hold dear to my heart,” Hewitt said. “To be alongside the boys again on the competitive court and to try and give them a slight advantage out there, and give them the belief that they can go out and compete against the best teams in the world, is really special”.