By Richard Pagliaro Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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Rushing towards the sprint finish line, Alex de Minaur His goal is to protect his body from faltering at the end of the season.
U.S. Open quarterfinalist De Minaur withdrew from this week’s Hong Kong exhibition due to a recurrence of a hip injury that sidelined him for a month last summer.
talking Tennis Grand Slam player Cedric RouquetteDe Minaur said his hip was “very sore” and “can’t take any chances” as he tries to qualify for the ATP Finals for the second consecutive season.
“It’s a hip injury that I had after Wimbledon last year and it kept me out for a long time, so it’s an area of concern.” De Minaur told Tennis Grand Slam. “So it’s something I can’t risk. It kept me out for almost three or four months last year and I carried the pain the rest of the year.
“Now, that’s a warning sign and I need to make sure everything is OK. I don’t want to have the same problems as last year. I need to be smart and take care of my body.”
The seventh-ranked Australian leads the ATP hard court scene this season and is one win shy of his 300th career victory.
De Minaur said he aggravated the injury in Beijing before taking painkillers to compete in the Rolex Shanghai Masters and reach the quarter-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 before bowing out to Daniil Medvedev.
De Minaur now plans to have an MRI scan of his hip before a decision is made on his schedule for the final months of the season.
“I played in Shanghai with some painkillers and tried my best to get through it, but I knew something was wrong, right?” De Minaur told Tennis Grand Slam. “I need to go get a scan. I need to see what the problem is, why I’m still in pain, and then once we sit down with the team, the doctors, the medical team, we can evaluate the game plan for the rest of the year, right?
“So there’s a lot of question marks, a lot of uncertainty, so I have to wait and see and play the waiting game.”
