{"id":743994,"date":"2026-08-20T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743994\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:32:51","slug":"alex-de-minaur-stunned-by-arthur-fils-at-cincinnati-masters-misses-top-four-seed-for-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743994\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur stunned by Arthur Fils at Cincinnati Masters, misses top-four seed for US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Alex de Minaur has missed out on a top-four US Open seeding after crashing out in the fourth round of the Cincinnati Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">De Minaur had the chance to climb into the world&#8217;s top five with a deep run at the final Masters 1000 event before the season&#8217;s last grand slam in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But the Australian number one delivered a flat performance to fall 6-3, 6-4 to rising Frenchman Arthur Fils in just 82 minutes on Wednesday (Thursday AEST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">De Minaur dropped serve once in each set and was unable to break the 21st seed at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The world number eight&#8217;s exit means de Minaur is certain to be seeded in the top eight at Flushing Meadows, still ensuring the Australian does not run into a higher-ranked player until at least the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But with Carlos Alcaraz still injured, de Minaur could have snatched a US Open top-four seeding and been guaranteed to avoid heavyweights such as Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev until at least the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Australian qualifier Chris O&#8217;Connell plays his fourth-round match in Cincinnati later on Thursday against American sixth seed Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur has missed out on a top-four US Open seeding after crashing out in the fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[17477,96557,245998,101,118,56,54,55,6545],"class_list":["post-743994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-arthur-fils","tag-cincinatti-masters","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}