Stat of the Day: Andrey Rublev records 300th tour-level win of career at Australian Open

Andrey Rublev slugged his way to two milestones on Rod Laver Arena on Sunday night, battling past Alex de Minaur in the fourth round of the Australian Open, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-0, to not only reach the 10th Grand Slam quarterfinal of his career, but to record the 300th tour-level win of his career as well.

The world No. 5 is the eighth man born in 1990 or later to reach 300 career wins, and just the fourth man born in 1995 or later to do it after Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

MEN BORN IN 1990 OR LATER WITH 300+ CAREER WINS (tour-level):
420: Grigor Dimitrov [born in 1991]
401: Alexander Zverev [born in 1997]
377: Milos Raonic [born in 1990]
346: Dominic Thiem [born in 1993]
336: Daniil Medvedev [born in 1996]
329: David Goffin [born in 1990]
304: Stefanos Tsitsipas [born in 1998]
300: Andrey Rublev [born in 1997]

Kei Nishikori, who has 433 career wins, just missed out on being on the above list—he was born on December 29th, 1989.

De Minaur had won his last three encounters against Top 10 players going into the match against Rublev, and he looked headed for a fourth straight win over a member of the elite after sneaking out the third-set tie-break to go up two sets to one.

After Rublev broke for a 3-0 lead in the fourth set, things looked even dicier as De Minaur got the break back to catch up to 3-2—but Rublev found his range again from there, winning nine of the last 10 games of the match, including the last seven games in a row, to complete a grueling four-hour, 14-minute victory.

“First of all I want to say amazing match to Alex,” Rublev said in his on-court interview. “Two days ago I said I hope we’re going to show a great match and the spectators will enjoy it, but now I regret about it because I didn’t expect that it will be that… enjoyable.

“When I was losing two sets to one down, I don’t know, I think I broke him in the beginning and then he broke me back, and then I start to tell to myself, ‘No, you are going to die today, but you will do everything.’ And then somehow I start to play better and better and I found more energy, and I was able to win.”

Awaiting the No. 5-seeded Rublev in the quarterfinals will be the No. 4 seed, Jannik Sinner, who continued his path of destruction through the men’s draw with a 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 15 seed Karen Khachanov. The Italian hasn't dropped a set yet.