Alex de Minaur displays on his US Open 2024 marketing campaign, which got here to an finish within the males’s singles quarterfinals at this time.
New York, USA , 5 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Alex de Minaur is attempting to keep up a big-picture perspective following his loss within the males’s singles quarterfinals at US Open 2024.
“I’m very pleased with myself, of what I’ve achieved, all issues contemplating, doing every thing I might to be on this place,” mentioned the world No.10 after bowing out in straight-sets towards Brit Jack Draper.
“As we speak it wasn’t meant to be, however yeah, I’m pleased 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 straightforward to play in the very best of occasions, and the best way he can unfold the court docket, being a lefty and actually transfer you across the court docket, it takes a toll on the physique,” De Minaur acknowledged.
“He performed effectively. He deserves the win. He moved me across the court docket, and served nice. Within the few possibilities that I had I wasn’t in a position to execute.”
De Minaur admitted he struggled throughout the match together with his hip damage, which he sustained at Wimbledon earlier this 12 months.
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 best route and at this time was a little bit bit the other of that,” he conceded.
“However yeah, it’s positive. 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 throughout 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 might have been naïve of me, however I genuinely thought that there was an opportunity even in that final recreation entering into.
“I assumed that there was an opportunity that I used to be going to alter 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 into 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 likelihood.
“[But] I’d reasonably 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 give attention to that as a substitute of dwelling on what simply occurred and me probably having one of many larger alternatives of my profession and it simply slipping away from my arms.
“So I’m going to stay with the positives that I’m pleased 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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