Alex de Minaur displays on his US Open 2024 marketing campaign, which got here to an finish within the males’s singles quarterfinals as we speak.
New York, USA , 5 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Alex de Minaur is making an attempt to take care of a big-picture perspective following his loss within the males’s singles quarterfinals at US Open 2024.
“I’m very happy with myself, of what I’ve achieved, all issues contemplating, doing all the pieces I may to be on this place,” mentioned the world No.10 after bowing out in straight-sets towards Brit Jack Draper.
“At this time it wasn’t meant to be, however yeah, I’m happy with my efforts.”
World No.25 Draper outclassed a flat De Minaur of their quarterfinal showdown, scoring a 6-3 7-5 6-2 victory.
“Look, Jack is rarely simple to play in the very best of instances, and the best way he can unfold the courtroom, being a lefty and actually transfer you across the courtroom, it takes a toll on the physique,” De Minaur acknowledged.
“He performed properly. He deserves the win. He moved me across the courtroom, and served nice. Within the few possibilities that I had I wasn’t capable of execute.”
De Minaur admitted he struggled in the course of the match along with his hip damage, which he sustained at Wimbledon earlier this yr.
He arrived in New York having not performed a aggressive match in six weeks and uncertain of his health ranges.
“I used to be anticipating to really feel higher. I used to be trending in the fitting course and as we speak was just a little bit the alternative of that,” he conceded.
“However yeah, it’s advantageous. I handled it after Wimbledon. I’ll take care of it after right here, and I’ll be again very quickly, and hopefully sliding from side-to-side with not a thought in my head.”
Regardless of the damage concern, De Minaur revealed he by no means contemplating retiring in the course of the match.
“Stopping didn’t cross my thoughts at any stage. It’s not a part of me, a part of my DNA,” he mentioned.
“I’m at all times going to offer my greatest. And look, it may have been naïve of me, however I genuinely thought that there was an opportunity even in that final sport stepping into.
“I assumed that there was an opportunity that I used to be going to vary the match round and go on the market and win it. So at each stage in that match, I gave myself a shot.”
De Minaur had been aiming to turn out to be solely the eleventh Australian to advance to a US Open males’s singles semifinal within the Open period and the primary to realize the feat in 19 years.
“I want I felt higher, let’s simply put it that method,” mentioned the 25-year-old. “It’s powerful. It’s an enormous alternative. It’s an enormous probability.
“[But] I’d somewhat attempt to take into consideration what I used to be doing six, seven weeks in the past [when injured], and the place I’m now, and attempt to concentrate on that as a substitute of dwelling on what simply occurred and me probably having one of many greater alternatives of my profession and it simply slipping away from my palms.
“So I’m going to stay with the positives that I’m happy with myself.”
Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
[25] Jack Draper (GBR) d [10] Alex de Minaur (AUS) 6-3 7-5 6-2
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