Australian faces former world No.1 with play to start at 10.30
Alex de Minaur’s silent response said everything.
Last year to reach the Wimbledon quarter-final for the first time carried a career-and seven times the champion Novak Djokovic would encounter-but the statement of the Australian star and a ginger alarm where he walked to the court interview.
Alex de Minaur did not seem to have made Wimbledon quarter finals after winning Arthur Fils last year.Credit: AP
De Minaur played the problem after shaking his right hip in a maneuver at the third last point of winning the French Arthur Fils, and that this was nothing but “fear ..
But on the morning of the Djokovic conflict, it came to a head when this Masthead watched Minaur watched just 10 minutes of a half -hour training session at Aorangi Park with Lleyton Hewitt.
Shortly thereafter, Minaur called a press conference to announce that it was withdrawn.
Scaans confirmed that he had maintained a high muscle tear near his belly, and faced the risk of giving more damage if he played. The biggest match of De Minaur’s life was closed.
Im I was destroyed, ”he said.
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