{"id":279789,"date":"2025-11-12T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279789\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:17:14","slug":"alex-de-minaur-collapses-at-atp-finals-score-result-lorenzo-musetti-comments-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279789\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur collapses at ATP finals, score, result, Lorenzo Musetti, comments, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur lamented his inability to conquer the world\u2019s best players was going to \u201ceat me alive\u201d after blowing his chance to break his ATP Finals duck in Italy, going down in three sets to local hero Lorenzo Musetti.<\/p>\n

The defeat in Turin stretched de Minaur\u2019s losing streak at the elite season-ending event to five matches.<\/p>\n

After losing the first set to the Italian in Turin, two days after losing his opening match to world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz, de Minaur showed the quality he\u2019d promised to bring to the event.<\/p>\n

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The Australian No.1 rallied to take the second set and then looked like powering away when he was up 5-3 in the third, winning a 31-shot rally to get within a game of victory, Musetti serving to stay alive.<\/p>\n

Musetti didn\u2019t just hold serve but went on to win the next three games against a lapsing de Minaur to collect the 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 win in two hours and 47 minutes, leaving de Minaur furious at himself for missing another chance to solidify his status among the world\u2019s best players.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf I really want to be serious about taking the next step in my career, these matches, I can\u2019t lose them. I just can\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it feels like I\u2019ve lost a lot of them this year. More than anything, it\u2019s getting to a point where mentally it\u2019s killing me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just (need to) win these matches. It\u2019s something that if it doesn\u2019t get sorted, it\u2019s going to eat me alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to get it sorted sooner rather than later. I don\u2019t know how many times I can deal with a loss like this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musetti, playing in the finals for the first time, labelled himself a \u201cwarrior\u201d after coming from behind to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really struggling physically because Alex raised the level and intensity and I was really struggling to find the solution,\u201d Musetti said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the end with a big heart and big passion for this game, I don\u2019t know from where, I started to feel better and play better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a warrior. I have improved a lot on the mental side and I am pushing myself to the limit because I am playing every match against the top players.\u201d<\/p>\n

After losing to Alcaraz, de Minaur said he felt like he was \u201cclose to a breakthrough\u201d against the world\u2019s best players, having struggled to consistently challenge those above him on the rankings.<\/p>\n

But the world No.6 remains winless across the past two years of the ATP Finals ahead of a final game against Taylor Fritz, who he has beaten five times in their 10 previous encounters.<\/p>\n

Despite the three-set loss, de Minaur could still progress to the semi-finals but would need a comprehensive straight-sets win over Fritz and Alcaraz to beat Musetti in the last pool game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur lamented his inability to conquer the world\u2019s best players was going to \u201ceat me alive\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,689,162129,962,162128,162130,2057,4603,2328,28258,677,162131,162132,3595,85,3599,747,162127,119419],"class_list":["post-279789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brutal-career-admission","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-comprehensive-straight-sets","tag-elite-season-ending-event","tag-europe","tag-final-game","tag-italy","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-oceania","tag-pool-game","tag-singles-group-stage","tag-southern-europe","tag-sports","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-tennis","tag-three-set-loss","tag-turin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279789","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=279789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}