{"id":468711,"date":"2025-09-03T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=468711"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:21:49","slug":"dreaded-de-minaur-qf-curse-continues-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=468711","title":{"rendered":"Dreaded de Minaur QF curse continues at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#x27;s Alex de Minaur continued his dreaded run in grand slam quarter-finals, losing in four sets to Canada&#x27;s Felix Auger-Aliassime at Flushing Meadows on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a frustrating encounter and the second longest match\ufeff of the tournament, de Minaur&#x27;s first serve let him down in the 6-4, 6-7 (9\/7), 5-7, 6-7 (7\/4) defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The match went for four hours and 10 minutes, with the second set running for a remarkable 86 minutes alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/us-open-2025-novak-djokovic-taylor-fritz-quarter-final-crowd-booing-reaction-video-result-20250903-p5ms57.html\"><strong>&#x27;Doing me a favour&#x27;: Wild scenes as booed Djokovic returns serve<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/afl\/news-2025-izak-rankine-apology-homophobic-slur-adelaide-crows-video-20250902-p5mrxp.html\"><strong>Coach backs Crows&#x27; Rankine handling amid fresh criticism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/news-2025-brisbane-broncos-off-field-issues-gehamat-shibasaki-stood-down-reece-walsh-toilet-prank-20250903-p5ms4t.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>&#x27;Got absolutely flogged&#x27;: Madge punishes axed Broncos gun<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"06efe221-08f9-4e03-a0d4-9ac8eda68887\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/06efe221-08f9-4e03-a0d4-9ac8eda68887\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"6000\" data-height=\"4000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian made \ufeffjust 42 per cent of his first serves and hit 43 unforced errors, although that mark was surpassed by the Canadian who had 50.<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur&#x27;s\ufeff record in quarter-finals now stands at 0-6 and he&#x27;ll rue not making more of this opportunity after drawing an easier schedule in the first four rounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch all the action from the 2025 US Open<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/z1ycx6\"><strong>live &amp; on-demand on Stan Sport<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Coverage of select matches free-to-air on Nine<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.9now.com.au\/MBdvfqdrVVb\"><strong>and streaming on 9Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auge-Aliassime, the 25th seed, has struggled with injuries and dips in confidence since his breakthrough trip to the US Open semi-final four years ago but brought his best level to Arthur Ashe Stadium as he sent more than 22 aces and 51 winners.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some days you won&#x27;t feel your best but I was willing to dig really deep and do everything I can,&quot; said Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"08aa1755-ae98-4ecb-bcea-6160f1ccaca6\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/08aa1755-ae98-4ecb-bcea-6160f1ccaca6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"4853\" data-height=\"3235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;It feels amazing. Four years ago, it feels like more. It was a tough couple of years but it feels even better now to be in the semi-finals.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime next plays the winner of the all-Italian quarter-final between reigning champion Jannik Sinner and 10th seed Lorenzo Musetti.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The biggest challenges are yet to come, but that&#x27;s what I live for, that&#x27;s what I train for,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australia&#x27;s Alex de Minaur continued his dreaded run in grand slam quarter-finals, losing in four sets to Canada&#x27;s Felix Auger-Aliassime at Flushing Meadows on Thursday <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=468711\" title=\"Dreaded de Minaur QF curse continues at US Open\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":468713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468716,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468711\/revisions\/468716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/468713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}