{"id":287341,"date":"2025-11-12T15:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:53:54","slug":"its-killing-me-alex-de-minaur-in-dark-place-after-atp-finals-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287341\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s killing me\u2019: Alex de Minaur in dark place after ATP Finals collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alex de Minaur<\/a> said he was in a dark place after his defeat to Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> at the ATP Finals<\/a> left him on the brink of elimination, with the Australian admitting: \u201cI don’t know how many times I can deal with a loss like this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Minaur served for the match at 5-3 in the final set against Musetti but the Italian won the final four games in a row in front of a raucous home crowd in Turin, sealing an epic 7-5 3-6 7-5 victory with a miracle forehand winner crosscourt. <\/p>\n

De Minaur, the World No 7, also lost his opening match against Carlos Alcaraz, blowing a 5-3 lead in the first-set tiebreak, and now requires a heavy win over Taylor Fritz on Thursday and for other results to go his way in order to advance to the semi-finals. <\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

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Alex de Minaur admitted that his run of results couldn\u2019t continue (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cI just have to talk to my team and try to sort out these issues because these are issues that can\u2019t keep happening,\u201d De Minaur said after his defeat to Musetti. <\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if 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. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old suffered a series of tough defeats at the grand slams this season. He blew a two-set lead against Alexander Bublik at the French Open and lost against Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon and Felix Auger-Aliassime at the US Open having won the opening set. <\/p>\n

De Minaur\u2019s defeat to Auger-Aliassime at the US Open meant he is 0-6 in grand slam quarter-finals. He also admitted after his second-round defeat to Bublik at Roland Garros that he felt \u201cburnt out\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s probably a good thing I don’t express my feelings right now because they’re quite dark,\u201d said De Minaur following the Musetti defeat in Turin. <\/p>\n

\"Musetti<\/p>\n

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Musetti delighted the crowd with his comeback from 3-5 down in the final set (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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

\u201cIt’s something that if it doesn’t get sorted, it’s going to eat me alive. [I] just have a talk to my team and try to sort out these issues because these are issues that can’t keep happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-287341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}