Alex De Minaur: 'Against Rafael Nadal it's pretty much redline'
earned just seven games against losing 6-1 6-2 6-4 on Friday at the Australian Open. The same score happened at Wimbledon last year. The Australian player tries to take whats positive.
I got better as the match went on, De Minaur admitted. Ive had a great Aussie summer. Im really proud of the effort I put in. I played some great tennis. Obviously, Im a little bit disappointed that I wasnt able to perform a little bit better.
But, you know, thats just what Rafa does to you. I mean, youve got to go out there and pretty much redline. Youve got to be able to go out there and perform your game plan and execute. I felt like I wasnt able to do that today.
But I still got better as the match went on. I fought till the end. On why this match was different than the one played at Wimbledon, De Minaur added: I felt like definitely, games were a lot longer. There were many games, especially on my service games, that had a lot of game points.
I ended up getting broken. If I could have just held on a little bit more with my serve, applied a bit more pressure early on in the sets, then maybe I could have got in a little bit more chances on his serve. But, geez, he served well.
Going through the whole set, serving, I think it was 80% first serves. Thats pretty scary. There were decent-paced first serves, as well. Look, this is tennis. This is what you want to do. Now Ive got to go back and get better.
I have plenty of areas to work on and improve. Just cant wait to get out there on court and improve these little aspects. Hopefully, next time around I can have a bigger crack. ALSO READ: Rafael Nadal: Worse players than David Ferrer won a Grand Slam title
