{"id":379905,"date":"2025-12-30T07:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379905\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:17:24","slug":"last-time-ill-talk-about-last-year-popyrin-primed-to-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379905\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Last time I\u2019ll talk about last year\u2019: Popyrin primed to bounce back"},"content":{"rendered":"

A refreshed Alexei Popyrin has vowed there will be no rear vision mirror on a draining 2025 season <\/a>after arriving back in Australia with a new mindset he believes will rule his future on the tour.<\/p>\n

Popyrin arrived in Brisbane from his Dubai base on Tuesday ready to draw the curtain on a disappointing 2025 that left him mentally and physically drained.<\/p>\n

But after taking his longest break since the Covid period, the 26-year-old is excited to be back home and was on court at the Brisbane Tennis Centre training just hours after his flight landed.<\/p>\n

Popyrin heads into the new year ranked no.54 in the world but hit a career-high mark of 19 in August after reaching the Toronto Masters quarter-final.<\/p>\n

Well before that though, the wheels had started to come off for Popyrin, who lost to world no.461 Arthur Fery at Wimbledon, a result that sent him into a spin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went through a little bit of a down patch there and then took my mind off things for a couple weeks and came back feeling good, and then got injured after that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was feeling good and then got kicked back down. And when I came back from injury, I wasn\u2019t quite enjoying travelling … I wanted to stay at home, and I had to push myself to go out there and travel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grind of tour life forced Popyrin to make deliberate changes and he\u2019s returned with a new outlook – on life and tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to my team after the season finished and next year, I want to do things a little bit differently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to enjoy my time when I\u2019m travelling. I want to do some stuff off the court that I enjoy doing more often and then focus when I\u2019m here on site.\u201d<\/p>\n

For this tournament, that has meant Popyrin meeting up with his sister and her children in Brisbane, while family members are likely to join him on tour at times this year. <\/p>\n

While he\u2019s based in Dubai with his fiance, Australia will always be home for Popyrin, who is excited for the challenge of his eighth year on tour and a summer in which he can start to rebuild his ranking and challenge the top players in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as long as I\u2019m my mind\u2019s up to it, then I feel that I\u2019ve got the level to be where I want to be but it\u2019s important for me to get my mind there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPre-season has gone unbelievably well and the way I\u2019ve come into today\u2019s practice and into this week feels great, so hopefully I can continue that for the rest of the year. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be the last time that I\u2019ll talk about last year. From now on, I just want to look forward to what\u2019s to come. I just want to forget about last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to try and get that new mindset going and just enjoy my time everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A refreshed Alexei Popyrin has vowed there will be no rear vision mirror on a draining 2025 season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[2095,204592,96149,1724,64,63,689,651,204590,204593,204594,5951,204591,611,2041,2067,677,701,85,51303,747,60861,204595,204589,2614,12000],"class_list":["post-379905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-america","tag-arriving-back","tag-arthur-fery","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane","tag-career-high-mark","tag-couple-weeks","tag-deliberate-changes","tag-dubai","tag-emma-greenwood","tag-mark","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-sports","tag-stewart","tag-tennis","tag-top-players","tag-tour-life","tag-touring-life","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-western-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379905","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=379905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}