Alex de Minaur has been despatched packing from the US Open with a tough third-round beating from in-form Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.
Key factors:
- Alex de Minaur’s loss leaves Nick Kyrgios because the lone Australian male left within the US Open
- The highest ranked Australian smashed his racquet after shedding match level to a tweener shot
- His Spanish opponent, Pablo Carreno Busta, bludgeoned 36 winners
Carreno Busta overcame an harm scare to finish a 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5) win over the Australian no 1, with a unprecedented tweener on match level.
De Minaur’s greatest grand slam outcomes have persistently come at Flushing Meadows, with the world quantity 20 reaching the quarter-finals in 2020, fourth around the 12 months earlier than and the final 32 on two different events.
However Carreno Busta, the event’s twelfth seed, a two-time US Open semi-finalist and up to date winner of the Montreal Masters, had an excessive amount of firepower.
The large-hitting Spaniard bludgeoned 36 winners, broke de Minaur 5 occasions and dropped serve solely as soon as to progress to the fourth spherical in three hours and 33 minutes.
He blew de Minaur off the court docket within the first two units earlier than being slowed by an obvious adductor or again difficulty.
De Minaur threatened a well-known fightback after profitable the third set and taking the fourth to a tiebreaker.
Carreno Busta had supplied him hope when his stage clearly dropped, then he took a medical time-out after conceding the third set to have remedy.
The Spaniard additionally modified sneakers, together with his workforce handing him a brand new set of orthotics, seemingly for help.
The stoppage and equipment change initially appeared to do the trick, with Carreno Busta holding serve to like instantly upon the resumption.
De Minaur’s confidence grew, although, and the match appeared headed in the direction of a deciding fifth set earlier than the Spaniard gained a exceptional match level.
After being lobbed, Carreno Busta did not look a hope of reaching the ball however someway managed to play a tweener over de Minaur’s head.
De Minaur may solely handle to get a body to the ball earlier than throwing his racquet down in anguish at shedding the match.
The 18th seed’s departure leaves Nick Kyrgios because the final Australian remaining within the males’s singles draw.
Kyrgios is because of play American wildcard JJ Wolf this morning.
AAP