Australia were the second seeds in the Davis Cup<\/a> qualifiers, but lost their tie 3-2 to Belgium, ranked in 13th.<\/p>\n It arrived after their 3-1 success over Sweden in round one qualifiers earlier this year, led by captain Lleyton Hewitt.<\/p>\n But they won\u2019t be appearing in the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna in November, where Belgium have just been drawn to face France in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a shock exit for Australia, who are the second-most successful Davis Cup side ever, and were runners-up in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n And star man De Minaur<\/a> has now shared his reaction to the defeat to Belgium with a post on his Instagram.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Multiple Grand Slam winner slams \u2018barbaric\u2019 rule during Alex de Minaur\u2019s shock Davis Cup defeat<\/a><\/p>\n He wrote: \u201cAlways pride and passion shown in this team, disappointed in the result this last weekend but we will be back! Thank you Sydney.\u201d<\/p>\n What are the current rankings ahead of the Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna?<\/p>\n ATP Tour number eight De Minaur was the highest-ranked player in the tie, in which he won once and lost once.<\/p>\n But he and his Australian teammates will now take a back seat for the upcoming Davis Cup Finals in Bologna.<\/p>\n Two-time defending champions Italy, the top-ranked team, have been drawn to face Austria on home soil.<\/p>\n Spain take on Czechia, who just knocked out the USA, while Argentina take on Germany at the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n RankNationMovementPointsPlayed1Italy\u00a0\u2013573.25182Australia\u00a0\u2013470.75203Germany\u00a0+1453154Netherlands -1432185USA\u00a0\u2013419.5166France\u00a0+2415.5147Canada -1415.25188=Argentina\u00a0+2412138=Czechia\u00a0+14121310Spain -3408.7514Current Davis Cup top 10 rankings<\/p>\n De Minaur meanwhile has an immediate chance to recover in another team event, having been called up to the Team World side for the Laver Cup.<\/p>\n He has replaced American Frances Tiafoe for the team tournament, which takes place later this week at the Chase Center in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur failed to prevent Australia from exiting the Davis Cup early, with his nation falling in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[18278,64,63,6566,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-150644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-de-minaur","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-davis-cup","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jordan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235308082-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Izhar Khan\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesAlex de Minaur reacts to Australia\u2019s disappointing Davis Cup exit<\/p>\n