After Alex de Minaur snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a devastating loss to Italian Lorenzo Musetti at the ATP Finals on Tuesday, the Australian said he cannot go on failing that way.<\/p>\n
De Minaur<\/a> battled back from going one set down to force a decider where he held a 5-3 lead, only for Musetti<\/a> to win four games in succession in an incredible round-robin match in Turin that the Italian won 7-5 3-6 7-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I think it’s probably a good thing I don’t express my feelings right now because they’re quite dark,” De Minaur said.<\/p>\n “It just feels like it’s been that type of year where I’ve had what feels like a whole lot of matches that should have gone my way and just somehow don’t.”<\/p>\n At the U.S. Open in September De Minaur won the first set against Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> but ended up losing his sixth Grand Slam quarter-final. At Wimbledon in the fourth round, he won the opening set 6-1 against Novak Djokovic<\/a> only to suffer a similar fate.<\/p>\n “It’s something that if it doesn’t get sorted, it’s going to eat me alive,” the Australian said.<\/p>\n “I need to get it sorted sooner rather than later. I don’t know how many times I can deal with a loss like this one.”<\/p>\n De Minaur lost his opening Jimmy Connors Group match against world number one Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> on Sunday, and takes on last year’s losing finalist Taylor Fritz<\/a> in his final round-robin match on Thursday, where defeat would end his time in Turin.<\/p>\n The Australian was asked what else he can do to avoid another crushing loss.<\/p>\n “Just have a talk to my team and try to sort out these issues because these are issues that can’t keep happening,” De Minaur replied.<\/p>\n “I mean, if I really want to be serious about taking the next step in my career, these matches, I can’t lose them. I just can’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Alex de Minaur snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a devastating loss to Italian Lorenzo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-279612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279612","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=279612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}