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Alex de Minaur makes painful reveal about his shocking loss to Jannik Sinner: ‘I feel like I’ve been slapped across the face’

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A devastated but defiant De Minaur made some difficult confessions after his straight sets loss to Jannik Sinner on Wednesday night.
  • Australian hope crushed in straight sets on Wednesday
  • He has now lost to Sinner in all 10 meetings with the world number 1.

Defeated but not broken, Alex de Minaur is not giving up his belief that he can still compete for a Grand Slam title, but he has given his fans a stark idea of ​​how hard he was hit by his latest quarter-final defeat. Grand Slam. .

De Minaur’s final run at the Australian Open came to an abrupt halt due to a demoralizing and resounding straight-sets 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 loss to world number one Jannik Sinner on Wednesday night. evening.

He has an 0-10 record against Sinner and has failed to win a set in his four Grand Slam quarterfinal appearances to date.

“I mean, it’s pretty hard for me right now to sit here after this loss and tell you that I think I can go all the way,” the world number 8 admitted.

‘But having said that, I think there are opportunities out there.

‘Tennis is a lot about confrontations, right? Yeah, I think right now my worst rival on tour is probably Jannik. You know, there is a face to face that doesn’t lie.

A devastated but defiant De Minaur made some difficult confessions after his straight sets loss to Jannik Sinner on Wednesday night.

The Australian said goodbye to his fans after failing to win a set in the Grand Slam quarterfinals once again after being overwhelmed by the Italian.

The Australian said goodbye to his fans after failing to win a set in the Grand Slam quarterfinals once again after being overwhelmed by the Italian.

‘If I’m on a different side of the frame, in a different little section, who knows? I really think I’m going to give myself opportunities and I don’t think my best moment will be reaching the quarterfinals of a Slam.

“I see other players who have gone further, they have reached the semi-finals, they have reached the final, and I think I can be among them. If they have been able to achieve it, why not me?

The match against Sinner proved to be a bitter end to a positive summer for the 25-year-old, who has now reached the quarter-finals at all four Slams.

“The positive is how I handled everything,” he said.

‘I mean, the fact that this year I made the top 10, and there were a lot of expectations, a lot of pressure. Obviously, the whole country wanted me to do well. I wanted to do well here

‘I thought I handled it very well to put myself in this position. I would have loved to do more today, but this is what happens sometimes in tennis.

“Look, the negative thing is that after playing great tennis at home and winning so much, you feel like you’ve been slapped, to be honest, for finishing like that.

‘I guess the other positive is that it’s not the first time I’ve felt that. I felt the same way when I played against Novak (Djokovic at the Australian Open) a couple of years ago.

De Minaur called Sinner his worst matchup on tour after falling to his 10th straight loss to the world No. 1.

De Minaur said Sinner is his worst matchup on tour after falling to his 10th straight loss to the world No. 1.

In his next match after Djokovic’s beating in 2023, De Minaur defeated the Serb for the first time.

A renowned workhorse, he is determined not to let his latest setback derail him.

‘So, hey, I’ll survive. “I will continue to improve,” he said.

“And if anything, I just need to sit down with my team and find a way to hurt Jannik on the court.

‘Ultimately, that’s the way we have to look at it and find different ways because right now we don’t have it.

‘So let’s go back to the drawing board, as I have done my entire career.

‘Like I said, I still don’t think this is my ceiling. I still think I have more in the tank. So I’ll be looking for that.’

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